AEW Full Gear 2019: 5 Things that shouldn't happen at the PPV

#3 Moxley vs. Omega closing the show

Moxley and Omega will finally square off at Full Gear.

After months of anticipation and a match canceled at the very last minute, Jon Moxey and Kenny Omega, two of the biggest stars on the AEW roster will finally meet at the Full Gear PPV. Speculation has abounded that the "Lights Out" match may be closing the event on Saturday night.

It makes sense, as the nature of this type of match is that there are no rules and while AEW is allowing it to happen in their ring and on their PPV event, the result will also have no bearing on the win-loss system. This is a match to settle a months-long grudge between the two stars, and it appears that a match like this is the only way to come to a satisfactory conclusion.

That's fine, but it shouldn't be the last thing shown on the pay-per-view event. AEW already closed one (low level) PPV with an unsanctioned match that saw Moxley defeat Joey Janela in a crazy match that didn't add to or detract from either man's win-loss record. It happened again on an episode of the AEW Dark series on YouTube, where Kenny also defeated Janela in a match that did not affect the company's standings/ranking system.

Moxley vs. Omega will be the third unsanctioned match in a four-month time period. All three matches make perfect sense: Moxley and Janela are crazy and wanted to go insane without any restrictions on their first big event together. Kenny wanted to show Moxley and everyone else that he could do that kind of match as well as anyone, so he took on and defeated, just like Moxley, Joey Janela in an unsanctioned match.

Now it's down to Moxley and Omega. Historically, "Lights Out" matches mean that they happen after the proper event is over. The lights in the arena are often turned off to symbolically mark the end of the sanctioned event, and when they come back on, it's an anything-goes battlefield. Even though that's traditional, and even fits in with the way things were usually done during time when Cody's dad was most famous, that doesn't mean it should close this particular show.

Cody announced on Dynamite that he was putting himself on the line in a very big way -- if he didn't beat Chris Jericho, he would never challenge for the AEW World Title ever again. That's a huge deal. It's the match that needs to close the show, not a match that, in the end, is essentially meaningless.

Having Cody versus Jericho as the "main event" and then putting something on afterwards isn't the way to go. Later on down the road? Sure. But not for the first title defense on PPV, and not with a gigantic part of the founder of the company's career on the line.