The Elite vs Death Triangle - Ladder match (AEW - 1/11/2023)

Link to full episode (this match is main event): www.bilibili.com/video/BV1HV4y1Q7Mi/?spm_id_from=333.337.search-card.all.click

I'm not really sure what possessed me to watch this. I don't like any of these guys and I can't stand four of them. There's pretty much nothing about watching a ladder match that excites me in the year 2024 and that's even with people I do like. And yet I watched it anyway and thought it was perfectly fine. At 17 minutes it never got totally stupid, they worked at a quick pace and ran through their moments one after another, but nothing felt overly contrived because they never really slowed down enough to set up anything too ridiculous. There was a hunner thousand superkicks but they all looked more like Chris Adams superkicks rather than Jey Uso superkicks so why not, I guess. They mentioned on commentary that Omega was beat up and jetlagged to hell and I actually bought it because of how he worked, maybe to the point where those things were actually true? I mean, he's been legit beat to shit for a while, right? I don't know, he obviously did some big time moves and flipped through a table and hit a fucking outrageous One Winged Angel off a propped up ladder, but I thought he sold the TOLL of everything well. Also loved him getting his fingers crushed between a ladder when Pac stepped on it, and he sold his ribs pretty well towards the end without being hammy about it. Matt Jackson hit a running Canadian Destroyer that might've been the most not-stupid Canadian Destroyer I've ever seen and the other one obliterated his hamstrings on a flip ladder bump I think the Young Bucks are dreadful but credit where it's fuckin due and all that. Pac hitting Omega's fingers with a hammer was also hilarious. The BASTARD~. Pro wrestling, what a nonsense.