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NEW SIGNING, EXPLODING BARBED WIRE DEATH MATCH: COMPLETE AEW REVOLUTION PPV COVERAGE

AEW Champion Kenny Omega vs. Jon Moxley - No Ropes Exploding Barbed Wire Match.

Barbed wire is wrapped around three sides of the ring.  There are barbed wire board in corners and weapons on the stage.  On the floor are land mines.  If the match goes 30 minutes, everything explodes.

They locked up and teased putting each other into the wire but each stopped the other.  They started firing punches and strikes at each other. 

Omega grabbed Moxley in a side headlock to bring him to the barbed wire but Moxley took him down.  Omega held onto the hold on the match.   Omega tried to send Moxley into the ropes but Moxley saved himself.  Omega charged but he missed Moxley and almost hit the ropes.  Moxley tried to send him into a barbed wire board but Kenny used to foot to stop the momentum.    They went nose to nose in the center of the ring and fired punches back and forth.

Omega was clotheslined over the top to the stage, where there were weapons inside trash cans.  Moxley began tossing them into the ring and beat Omega with a barbed wire bat.  He grabbed a Singapore Cane and worked over Omega with it on the stage.  Omega threw powder in Moxley's eyes when they returned to the ring, blinding him.  He sent Moxley into the barbed wire ropes, which exploded.  It looked really good and the crowd chanted "Holy sh**."  Omega covered Moxley who kicked up.

Omega beat him with a trash can and then slammed him atop of it.  Omega choked Moxley with the cane.  Omega cinched a figure four on Moxley, who was now bleeding.  Moxley grabbed a chair wrapped in barbed wire and raked it over Omega's knee, ripping at it to free himself.  Omega grabbed him for a Dragon suplex but Moxley slipped out.  Moxley was whipped into a barbed wire board in the corner.  Omega was careful not to touch the exploding barbed wire and hit a moonsault for a two count.  He began drilling Moxley with the cane but was shoved off by Moxley and went face first into the barbed wire, which exploded.  Moxley then dropkicked him again into the third set of ropes, which exploded.

Moxley nailed a double underhook suplex.  Omega fought back and went for a Dragon suplex into a barbed wire board but Moxley blocked it and sent Omega into it with a suplex of his own.  Moxley went for a double underhook DDT on a barbed wire chair but Moxley escaped.  Moxley nailed a back suplex and then hit a side slam on the barbed wire chair.

Moxley wrapped barbed wire around his own arm and fist.  He set up for a strike but Omega blocked and kicked him.  Moxley came back with a lariat.  Omega ducked the barbed wire lariat and hit a snap Dragon suplex.  Moxley kept kicking up.  He went for the Paradigm Shift but Omega shoved Moxley backwards into the barbed wire ropes which exploded.  Omega was blinded by the explosion and demanded water from the referee.  Omega and Moxley fought to recover on the apron outside.

They battled above the exploding landmines, striking and firing at each other.  Omega ripped at Moxley's face.  He tried to hiptoss Moxley off the apron but Moxley held on.  Omega bit him on the face.  Omega almost fell off but grabbed the ropes.  Moxley nailed a Paradigm Shift off the apron onto the landmine which exploded.  It looked more impressive with some of the replays.  Omega was now bleeding while Moxley fought to extricate himself from the barbed wire.

Moxley began coiling pieces of barbed wire.  They returned to the ring, where Moxley kept drilling into him with the barbed wire over and over.  

The warning countdown for the entire ring to explode began!  Somewhere out there, Atsushi Onita's ears perked.

Moxley nailed a piledriver for a two count and kept covering him.  Omega nailed him with a low blow and powerbombed Moxley for a two count the way Onita used to finish his opponents, so that was a nice tribute.

Omega nailed several V-Triggers on Moxley.  Omega set up for the One-Winged Angel but Moxley put his leg on the ropes, setting off a barbed wire explosion.  That was great.  The explosion "blinded" Omega, who didn't see it coming.  Moxley grabbed the barbed wire bat.  Karl Anderson and Doc Gallows ran out.  Moxley fought them off but Gallows handed Omega a barbed wire bat.  When he nailed Moxley with it, it exploded and damn, it looked great,

Moxley still kicked out.

We are five minutes away from the explosion!  Terry Funk just perked up in Amarillo.

Omega worked over Moxley and finally scored the pin.

Your winner and still AEW Champion, Kenny Omega!

The announcers pointed out the clock was still ticking.  The referee got nailed.  Don Callis told Omega to get out of the ring but he and The Good Brothers kept beating Moxley and handcuffed his hands behind his back.  Omega told Moxley that this was what Moxley wanted.

They kept beating Moxley in the ring. They raked his forehead with the barbed wire bat.  

The one minute countdown began.  Mick Foley just grabbed his flannel shirt, concerned.

 Omega and friends ran from the ring.  Everyone at ringside took cover.  Eddie Kingston hit the scene and brawled with Omega.  He hit the ring and tried to get Moxley out but it was too late and covered Moxley. 

The final explosion was nowhere near massive as you'd have expected it to be and it appeared everything didn't go "off" at the same time as it was designed to happen or something.  It was absolutely anti-climactic and BEYOND a disappointment from a visual standpoint, especially after the way some of the other explosions looked in the moment.  They had this emotional deal primed for Moxley and Kingston right out of the legendary Funk vs. Onita match to give Moxley backup against Omega and friends.  Maybe they can still showcase it somehow (I don't know how, but somehow) via post-production but live,  whatever was to happen obviously did not and that moment was lost forever.  The final explosion didn't work so all the work, drama, etc. just dissipated.  This obviously is not what AEW wanted to do to close the show.   In fact, this was probably the exact opposite of what they wanted.    There's no way to describe this as anything but a massive letdown for everyone watching and everyone involved.

Moxley and Kingston sold like they were DEAD.   Medical officials checked on them as they went off the air, which looked awkward especially for talents who carry themselves with street credibility.

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