Well, AEW‘s Fyter Fest Night 3 is officially in the books, and goodness, what a show it was.

Swerve in our Glory was celebrated in a segment that also featured rapper Kevin Gates, Ricky Starks retained his FTW Title against the artist formerly known as Troy “Two Dimes” Donovan (Cole Karter) only to be challenged by Danhausen, and Eddie Kingston duked it out with Chris Jericho in a Barbed Wire Everywhere Match while the JAS were comically suspended in a metal shark cage that maybe didn’t totally work but was a nice tribute to Japanese wrestlers of yesteryear and officially turned Anna Jay heel, which was certainly a choice.

Surely this was a Pay-Per-View length card given away for free on television over multiple shows over multiple weeks and given the number of Shark Week tie-ins both in the ring, during the commercial breaks, and with the addition of Chompy the Shark, the official mascot of the event, one would assume it was a financial win for Tony Khan too, especially with two-plus minutes dedicated to a trailer for HBO's House of the Dragon.

And yet, against all odds, Fyter Fest isn't over; no, after three televised episodes with varying degrees of success, Fyter Fest will be back for a fourth night when it returns to Rampage on Friday. If you haven't had enough of the festivities, read on, there are three fun facts about the forthcoming show.

3 fun facts to hold AEW fans over until the Fyter Fest Finale.

3. A meme with legs

Initially coined as a play on “Fyre Fest” – get it? – AEW's event has far surpassed the longevity and, dare I say, cultural legacy of its namesake.

Initially started as a program for Pay-Per-View, the second such event under the All Elite Wrestling moniker after Double or Nothing – All In was technically an independent show- the show has run every year since 2019 and has featured such prominent matches as The Elite versus The Lucha Brothers and Laredo Kid, Cody versus Darby Allin to a time limit draw, and a Lights Out Match featuring Jon Moxley versus Joey Janela is almost never talked about anymore but was actually pretty good.

Since then, Fyter Fest has been the home to a number of important matches in AEW history, including Lance Archer's win over Jon Moxley for the IWGP United States Championship in a Texas Tornado match, and Swerve in our Glory pulling out the W over The Young Bucks in their first and last title defense of their second reign with the AEW Tag Team Champions just one week ago.

Fyter stuff indeed.

2. Fyter Fest had one of the lowest-rated matches in AEW history.

While some may quibble with the booking on 2022's edition of Fyter Fest – how long the card is, how few title matches there are, etc. – nothing on this year's super-sized card compares to the original, as it featured one of the worst matches in company history, at least according to Dave Meltzer. Clocking in at 1.75 stars, Tony Khan – read, Kenny Omega – booked Michael Nakazawa to wrestle Alex Jebailey, a performer more well-known in the Fighting Game Community than in the actual ring.

The match was polarizing at best, and an embarrassment at worst, with plenty of DDT-style setups and some of the worst in-ring action you will see in, well, in any wrestling ring, really.

Do you want to see a match where a man chokes out another with a Nintendo Gamecube controller? How about a man well over 40 pouring baby oil on himself to avoid being locked up? Or how about the finish of the match, where Nakazawa landed a pin via a thong to the face?

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And the worst part? This was Jabailey-Nakazawa II, which means someone – again, Kenny Omega – saw the match and said, yeah, give me more of that? Truly one of the lowest lights of the early era of AEW.

1. Fyter Fest 2020 almost had an international venue.

As improbably as it may sound, AEW has yet to run a full show outside of the United States.

Yes, despite having a very internationally representative roster, with PAC literally defending his All-Atlantic Championship in the United Kingdom as we speak and Thunder Rosa flying to Japan to wrestle Miyu Yamashita in a qualifying match for an AEW Women's Championship bout, AEW has never run a show in Canada, Japan, or even Mexico, with the closest thing coming via a few matches on Chris Jericho's Cruise, which is accepted canon in the promotion's lore.

If the COVID-19 pandemic didn't hit, Fyter Fest 2020 would have been that first international show, as it was reportedly booked for a two-day event at Wembley Arena; the arena owned by Tony Khan's family.

*Sigh* oh, what could have been.