>>17233416You're right. I didn't see the Ospreay/Fletcher cage match live, but I heard people praising it as one of two great cage matches over two days. Without even being a contrarian troll about it, the AEW cage match wasn't even close to Punk/Rollins on several different levels.
Ospreay is a great but not-quite-elite in-ring performer. His ability to nail certain unbelievable spots ensures that his matches will never be boring, but he needs someone like Omega, Okada, or Danielson in the ring with him to rein him in and call the match to keep the right pacing and build each spot appropriately.
I literally had no clue who Kyle Fletcher was. He showed up after I stopped watching AEW. I was intrigued when I saw that Tony K had booked him to win clean over Ospreay and heard some positive reviews online about Fletcher. After watching five matches of Fletcher's, I was disappointed. He doesn't suck, but he isn't all that good either. There were points in that cage match where looked like a straight up retard: horrible selling of chops, goofy gesticulating like a frightened blind retard in a thunderstorm after taking the Styles Clash onto tacks, and his tryhard "I hate you!" screams before Ospreay hit him with that shitty looking elbow strike he always does.
The Punk/Rollins MSG cage match was incredible, especially for a RAW. The pacing, the mounting tension, the increasing sense of hatred, frustration, and alarm showed by both men all built to a point where the false finishes had maximum effect on the audience. Ospreay and Fletcher had no pacing and neither knew what to do between high spots.
Again, no console war trolling here, but the Ospreay/Fletcher cage match can't compare to Punk/Rollins.
