AEW’s first-ever Owen Hart Memorial Match is totally underway, with some nice motion already going down within the qualifying matches.
The occasion has been a feather within the cap for AEW and proprietor Tony Khan, who’ve (as soon as once more) proven that they need to honor old-fashioned excellence with their new college expertise. The aim of the tourney is to pay tribute to Owen and his household, and up to now, All Elite Wrestling has performed a improbable job of delivering on that promise.
In deference to the traditions of the Hart household, there’s been loads of excellent grappling and technical wrestling within the early going. FTR wrestled one another in a qualifying match that was principally a love letter to the shoot-style taught by the household’s patriarch, Stu Hart.
It has been an excellent expertise for the followers, Owen’s household and the world {of professional} wrestling basically.
With all the nice names on the lads’s ledger in AEW’s Owen Hart Match, there’s just one query: Who needs to be the inaugural winner?
The simplest reply for this one is Adam Cole. The man who’s all in regards to the growth is the one who ought to hoist the Cup at Double or Nothing.
Make no mistake, there’s loads of nice expertise left on this event. Jeff Hardy superior in opposition to Darby Allin. Samoa Joe, Rey Fenix and Kyle O’Reilly are additionally left among the many subject.
There’s additionally the matter of the Joker Card, which some have speculated could possibly be Claudio Castagnoli (previously Cesaro) or probably an IMPACT or New Japan star. Whereas this could add nice worth to the event, it is unlikely that somebody would win the entire thing by principally simply strolling within the door.
That is why Cole stays essentially the most intriguing competitor on this bracket. He is insanely over with the gang, and he is a reputable performer contained in the ring. He is destined to be an AEW World Champion sometime, and one of many steps in that route could possibly be by making historical past on this occasion.
This situation will line the whole lot up completely for Cole going ahead. He can then department off to his inevitable feud with the returning Kenny Omega and probably then concentrate on going for the massive title. This whole event serves as a twin purpose: praising Owen Hart and dealing along with his basis, in addition to elevating whoever the winner within the ring finally is.
Cole has been ready for the correct springboard in AEW, the second when he really steps as much as the extent of a franchise participant. It is as if he is on the cusp, and desires somewhat push to completely set up himself within the stratosphere of fellows like Omega, CM Punk and Bryan Danielson.
That is the occasion and the time is now. Simply, the wrestler who ought to emerge because the winner of the first-ever Owen Hart Memorial Cup is Adam Cole… Bay-Bay!
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