So let's just said at the same time, my friends, these matches will change. And if you did join in with me, you're my new favorite person. Because that is just a way with life. One day we go to bed thinking X is the best match ever, and then we wake up on Friday and go, damn it, I forgot about B, and oh my gosh, what about S? But since 2019, AEW has given us some amazing matches, so I, Simon Mellor, thought it was time to sit down and go through some of the greats,

and of course we put them in an order.

Otherwise, what would we argue about?

So get ready, and let's go.

Number 30, the Young Bucks versus Eddie Kingston and Penta from the June 30th, 2021 Dynamite.

So we are going to start by using a really weird comparison, but in many ways,

this was AEW's answer to Steve Austin versus Doodlove from Over the Edge 1998. And what I mean

by that is that if you go back and watch that WWF bout, it is just an unhinged blast of madness

with frenzy being the name of the game. It was also basically the match that re-cemented

what a World Wrestling Federation main event was going to be. So suppose if you were going to bottle that feeling and kind of throw AEW on it, well, you'd get to this. I mean, by this point, the Young Bucks was so obnoxiously flamboyant that I think Matt Jackson had created his hat out of crayons, and the tag team had done such a good job with the fans, or the crowd

was just desperate for them to get some comeuppance. The angry action itself was just

pure drama with flare and danger added in for good mix, and during one spellbiding sequence,

Nick Jackson just kicked Penta a lot of times. He then tried to bull-look him when all of a sudden

Eddie Kingston duck and backdrop Nick's head right into the top turn buckleuckle and it made me all go wibbly jibbly especially because

Pentah was then back and what did he do? He kicked him. Kingston quickly followed with a German

release suplex when Benta hit the backstabber and I tell you the one-two-oo on that Matt

Jackson broke it up at the last second. Young Buckstooge, Brandon Cutler then attempted to Mace Penter, but because the masked man was able to slip out the way of Matt's grasp, Cutler essentially had a breakdown, so he stood there and continued to spray Matt with his legs shaking. I mean, that sounds ridiculous when I explain it, but I laughed out loud then. I'd laugh out loud if I was watching it right now. This is when we had the elite hunter Frankie Kazarian 2 who came out to balance the books, when finally we got the big old package pile driver, a one, two, three, the baby faces were victorious. So it was goofy, exhilarating a little bit stiff and just packed with carnage. And in many ways you could describe it as state-of-the-art action. If you're also trying to get somebody else into AEW, well, it ain't the worst match. Number 29, Tony Storm versus Mariah May from Revolution 2025. So a lot of people wanted this match to headline this pay-per-view for good reason. If you want to talk about some of the best stories that All-Leat Wrestling has ever told, well, you've got to go to Tony Storm versus Mariah May. Of course, it ended up being John Moxie versus Adam Copeland that finished the show, but Tony Mariah didn't care, because they stormed out there, no pun intended. My gosh, they rewrote the rule book. What's most incredible about it is that it only went 12 minutes

and 55 seconds. We had no time to indulge in melodrama here and instead had one single focus.

It was time to kill. I mean, you'll be able to see on the screens right now just the amount of

blood that flowed from everybody's head. And I tell you, there's something about Tony Storm,

which he does do

this. It always ends with the vigil that you could describe as beautiful chaos. It also

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