AEW absolutely delivered on their promise to offer a creative, inventive, and entertaining matches of 2020. The Stadium Stampede was a huge winner.

A loaded Double or Nothing card was capped off with what might be the match of 2020. The pre-recorded Stadium Stampede bout started as each competitor was given football-like introductions on the field. Inner Circle came first, wearing red jerseys and with numbers that represented something important to each wrestler’a past. The Elite were dressed as they traditionally would be but Adam Page was conspicuous by his absence.

In the opening moments of the contest, each team ran at each other from the end zone and immediately used weapons, working their way around the field. Matt Jackson was nursing a rib injury suffered on Wednesday's Dynamite, but was a gamer.  Out of nowhere, Page appeared on a horse and road horseback targeting Sami Guevara.

The camera cut back to the ring where the action was the focus, The Young Bucks taking it to most of the Inner Circle. Seemingly having eluded Page, Guevara jogged back into the action only to find himself on the receiving end of a 4-on-1 attack.

The action spilled back out into the field where Matt Jackson climbed the field goal posts and delivered a reverse Swanton Bomb to his opponents. Cuttting back to Page, how Guevara got away became clear as The Cowboy wandered backstage on his horse looking for the bar.

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The chaos spilled into the upper deck concourse, where Santana and Ortiz went toe-to-toe with Matt Hardy and Kenny Omega. The Inner Circle duo blinded Omega and sent him through a barricade, then focused on Hardy near the stadium pool. Throwing the Broken One into the water, they tried to drown Matt. It didn’t work as Version 1.0 of Matt Hardy emerged. Not ready to quit, they tried a second time, finding another personality of Hardy had showed up. Finally, the last version of Hardy re-emerged from water. The announcers said the pool must have been filled with ater from The Lake of Reincarnation. Hardy eventually took out Santana and Ortiz, shoving Santana into a ice machine and the action cut away to Jake Hager searching for Page.

When the camera found Page in the bar, he was joined by Hager, both of whom sat down for a drink. Each took a shot and started to fight. Using the pool table as a prop, the two battle around the bar, pulling out scenes from the old western films as Page was dragged across the bar and seemed out-manned by Hager. Omega showed up and smashed bottle after bottle over Hager’s head, barely able to take him out. They finally did, and Omega and Page shared a drink and the action cut back to the football field.

As the action continued and members of the Inner Circle were going down one-by-one, it was The Young Bucks against Jericho and Guevara. Matt Jackson literally suplexed Guevara 100 yards and got a flag thrown for an Alex Wright celebration when he wound up in the end zone. Meanwhile Jericho got into it with the Jacksonville Jaguars' mascot and knocked it out. Jericho got a close three-count call so he demanded an instant replay. After the video review, the call stood and the match continued.

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When the Bucks were able to isolate Jericho, Nick Jackson ran the stadium steps able to drop a shooting star on Jericho through a table. The prone Jericho then fell victim to a line painting attack by Page who had found a line-painting machine in the stadium. Meanwhile, Guevara woke up after the sprinklers went off on his crotch, only the find himself the target of another RV attack from Hardy and Omega. Trying to outrun them, he escaped into the stands but found himself outnumbered. Left alone, Vanguard One returned with an upgrade and distracted Guevara long enough to see Omega drop a one-winged Angel from the stands to the floor.

The Elite pick up the win and celebrate with a Gatorade shower. The show then closed with the victors standing underneath a fireworks display.

AEW Absolutely Delivers

This match was everything you can imagine and then some. From full-throttle action to just the right amount of comedy, it was almost perfect. It didn't include the cameos rumored to be part of the match (sorry Sting fans) but it didn't need anything extra to make it historic. There have been a lot of interesting matches in 2020, but this might be the best to date.

The bout alone was worth the price of the pay-per-view. That said, a good chunk of the card was pretty good too.

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