This article was originally published on November 14, 2019 at VoicesOfWrestling.com
I’d bet that very few people were betting on Scorpio Sky to be the first competitor to pin AEW Champion Chris Jericho, but that’s exactly what happened on Wednesday night. Sky pinned Jericho in the main event of this week’s Dynamite to retain SCU’s Tag Team Championships with his partner Frankie Kazarian. This pinfall marks Jericho’s first loss in AEW, and could potentially trigger a future AEW World Championship opportunity for the rising star and usual tag team specialist.
RANKINGS
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RISERS
JON MOXLEY (MEN’S SINGLES)
Previous Rank: 8
Current Rank: 1
In the span of 4 days, Jon Moxley has won the longest AEW match to date — 38:46 against Kenny Omega at Full Gear, and the shortest AEW match to date — 1:10 against Michal Nakazawa on Dynamite. These two disparate victories helped Moxley rise all the way to the top of our AEW singles ranks. Moxley remains undefeated in AEW singles competition at 4-0-1, including his unsanctioned matches and he is gaining some serious momentum.
Moxley will face Darby Allin next week on Dynamite in a match that is sure to highlight some questionable decisions and could propel either competitor into the AEW Championship conversation.
SCORPIO SKY (MEN’S OVERALL)
Previous Rank: 6
Current Rank: 2
Scorpio Sky’s teammate Frankie Kazarian benefits from having zero losing pinfalls, so Kazarian is mathematically ranking slightly higher than Sky in our Men’s Overall rankings, but Scorpio’s trajectory is stronger. Sky is on a six match winning streak and he has executed the winning pinfall in four of SCU’s last five victories. Sky and Kazarian’s six match winning streak is far-and-away the longest winning streak in AEW.
Scorpio’s pin on Jericho shouldn’t go understated. AEW may have set a precedent with Emi Sakura recently that when you pin a singles champion in a tag match, you are in line for a championship opportunity.
It will be interesting to see if Sky is satisfied to be a tag team specialist, or if he’d like to try his hand in the singles division by challenging Jericho for the World Championship. Either way, SCU is dominating the Men’s Overall ranks with no signs of slowing down.
FALLERS
CODY (MEN’S SINGLES)
Previous Rank: 7
Current Rank: 1
Cody remains one of the most popular competitors in AEW but he is tumbling down our rankings as he competes less frequently. In the last 30 days, Cody is 0-1 in singles matches, his World Championship loss to Chris Jericho at Full gear, and he has competed in the fewer matches than anyone else in our Men’s Overall top 25.
Cody has shown the ability to quickly climb up the singles ranks with strong matches against solid competitors, but he may lack motivation to do so as he solidifies his backstage role after taking himself out of contention for the World Championship.
CHRIS JERICHO (MEN’S OVERALL)
Previous Rank: 4
Current Rank: 1
Chris Jericho finally found the loss column in All Elite Wrestling. It’s not unusual for two strong singles competitors to lose a tag match to tag team specialists, but if I were a betting man, I would have put money on Sammy Guevara to be the person who would lose this match for the Inner Circle duo.
Unfortunately for Jericho, Scorpio Sky ended Le Champion’s seven match winning streak which was the metric that pushed Jericho to the top of our rankings.
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