AEW ‘Revolution’ preview: The best matches are on the undercard

Jon Moxley, please, god, make this happen, could finally drop the AEW world title, at the company’s “Revolution” pay-per-view (Sunday, 8 p.m. ET), though the build with former WWE star Adam Copeland hasn’t exactly suggested title change.

We may get a hint at the outcome of the Moxley-Copeland main event earlier in Sunday’s show, when another former WWE star, Ricochet, squares off with former AEW champ Swerve Strickland in what is being billed as a #1 contender match.

Tony Khan doesn’t always strictly adhere to the face-vs.-heel formula with his booking, but it would seem to stand to reason that a Strickland win, which I’m expecting, coming at the end of a nice build for a guy who is still the most over guy in the company, would work better with him heading into a program with Moxley for the belt going into “Double or Nothing” season.

Elsewhere

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Kenny Omega is challenging International champ Konosuke Takeshita. It would make sense to me to have Omega win the belt, then have Omega and Kazuchika Okada, who is defending the Continental title against Brody King, work toward a title-unification match at the big “All In” show in Dallas in July.

I don’t have a feel for how MJF-“Hangman” Adam Page is going to be booked specific to Sunday night. The way to go, to me, would be to not work toward a clean finish for either here, but rather, to have this one be the first in a series. If that’s the way this one is being planned, the winner would be likely to lose the next two, so I would go with Page getting the dub on Sunday night, to set up MJF to have to heel his way to the ultimate victory in the feud a couple matches down the road.

One feud that I wish wasn’t coming to an apparent end is Toni Storm-Mariah May, which is what we’re getting for the AEW women’s title on Sunday night. The billing is “Hollywood Ending”; I could watch these two for the next year and not get enough.

Throwaway matches

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Mercedes Mone-Momo Watanbe for the TBS title, Hurt Syndicate-Outrunners for the tag titles, Will Ospreay-Kyle Fletcher, for some reason, going at it again.

We should at least get some comedy spots out of the tag-title match, and maybe a Young Bucks challenge at the end of that one.

Ospreay-Fletcher should be mighty entertaining; the problem here is, it doesn’t seem to be leading to anything.

Mone-Watanbe wouldn’t draw a number on “Collision.”