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All Out 2021
Soooooooo All Out was my favourite PPV that I've seen since getting into wrestling last year? Rewatching while I clean out inboxes and balance my budget and all that boring shit before I go back to work! As a treat.
The Buy-In: Orange Cassidy, Chuck Taylor, Wheeler Yuta & Jurassic Express vs. Matt Hardy, Private Party & TH2: A big, ridiculous ten-man match to start a big, ridiculous ten-match show? The awkwardness of having to name every member of the Alliance That Is Basically Best Friends But Not Really Without Trent There is hilarious to me. The bit with the big silly six-man submission chain was fun. The two Jacks playing chicken on their partner's shoulders was great. The good guys got the win, and while Orange getting horribly beat up after the bell was very mean, THE BUTCHER IS BACK so I wasn't even mad! Blade and Bunny always coming out on their own for all these months has been so sad, they feel so incomplete without their large weird... co-worker? I will never have a proper handle on what their relationship is meant to be and I feel like that's for the best. And then the big group hug featuring all the guys who were just in the back but aren't on the card? John Silver just looking so darn excited to be in the middle of the cuddle puddle? What a great way to start the night. Also I missed Luchasaurus kissing Orange on the head the first time around.
Best sign in the crowd contender: BAN JAMES CORDEN. Also Dan Lambert still sucks and I still hate that Ethan has been stuck with him. Maybe Scorpio needs it, that dude cannot seem to get over to save his life, but Ethan was on fire when he was feuding with Darby. Though I guess he can't just do that forever, much as I would like it. WHATEVER, ONTO THE SHOW PROPER.
Miro (c) vs. Eddie Kingston for the AEW TNT Championship: My heart is, once again, left in pieces on the floor by an Eddie Kingston PPV match. Fuck, it was so good though. Two very strong men just beating the everloving shit out of each other and yelling and making faces for ten beautifully violent minutes, Miro's chest was a HORRIBLE shade of purple by the end. Very glad that Eddie got out of the Game Over, there's something very intimate about the fact that Mox is the only one who's been able to make him tap out in AEW. Anyway, FUCK BRYCE REMSBURG, ALL MY HOMIES HATE BRYCE REMSBURG (I don't mean that, I love Bryce, he is my favourite ref, BUT I'M STILL MAD AT HIM AFTER THIS). Can't wait to see Eddie tear into him for that bullshit ending on Dynamite, and hopefully it means that he'll get a rematch at Arthur Ashe so he can win the belt in front of a hometown crowd. HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL, REDEEM DEEZ NUTS. I can't believe they started out with the single match I was most looking forward to and still managed to keep me engaged, what a fucking flex.
Best sign in the crowd contender: "?? You Follow Me, Friend". Much better than actually having Cody around tbh.
Jon Moxley vs. Satoshi Kojima: And then Eddie's husband wrecked the good good cozy lariat man and it was faaaaaaantastic. Love that Mox came to the ring in a GCW sweatshirt since he's their champion now. Kojima looked great, and when you consider the fact that he's the same age as Chris Jericho, it kinda makes me wonder if there isn't something to a nice, bread-based lifestyle. Also technically Kojima drew first blood of the night when Mox split his elbow open. Anyway, the post-match was the real stunner here, MURDER GRANDPA IS HERE IN AEW!!!!! I should have expected this, considering how many indie shows he's booked for this month, but Suzuki was not on my radar for potential debuts at all. Mox's either, judging by how horror-stricken he looked when that music hit! Can't believe they're gonna give that one away for free on Dynamite. Definitely a 'finish your drink' moment in the drinking game. Now I want some bread.
Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. (c) vs. Kris Statlander for the AEW Women's World Championship: I knew Kris wasn't going to win, so all I was really hoping for was a good match, since her last big PPV title shot match was underwhelming due to violent illness. I GOT A GOOD MATCH!! I also got pretty sparkly alien facepaint and Orange Cassidy delivering my single favourite moment of the entire 4-hour show when he LOST HIS FUCKING SHIT and just starting SCREAMING at a brutalized Kris to gas her up and get her back in the ring to beat the ten-count. Such a great character beat; that's not a well he can go to very often before risking its effectiveness, so I love that cheering on his friend in her big fight was important enough to break through his cool and make him snap. Nice to see Britt win a big match completely clean, too, even with Rebel and Jamie both in her corner. Not a bad way to break Kris' undefeated streak at all, especially since she never actually submitted to the Lock Jaw in the end, she passed the fuck out before Britt actually got her hand in there. Thunder Rosa's still my pick to defeat Britt eventually, but Kris WILL be our leader one day. I feel it in my jellies.
I wonder if Britt knew her boyfriend had come back from the dead yet. That Pittsburgh Sunrise was beautiful.
Andrade vs. PAC happening on Rampage this week instead. Looks like Andrade's reprieve before I permanently decide if I put him in the 'overrated' box or not will be a short one.
Young Bucks (c) vs. Lucha Brothers in a Steel Cage Match for the AEW World Tag Team Championship: Well hooooooleeeeeee fuck. As soon as Eddie lost, I figured the Lucha Bros.' odds of winning here went up quite a bit, because at least one title HAS to change hands on a big show like this, and then they got that insane fucking over-the-top ring entrance, with lucha dancers and a choir and a live rapper (and Mikey!) who I'm guessing is famous in Mexico and pyro and fireworks and giant feathered Aztec headdresses and then I KNEW they were winning. And then they and the Bucks delivered the match of the night, so! I ain't mad! There's actually a nice throughline here, where two of the teams to come closest to defeating the Bucks in their reign have been Fenix/PAC and Penta/Eddie, so naturally the two brothers together should absolutely be capable of it. When Penta, blood already in his eyes, threw himself in front of the thumbtack sneaker superkick to protect his baby brother? Penta's three tiny daughters all coming out to hug him after the win (getting covered in their dad's blood in the process, but hey). Oh no, my heart. I'm so soft. Nick and Fenix remain wrestling soulmates, I could watch those two fly around like lunatics with each other forever. When they were both climbing up the cage like kitty cats? Beautiful, and it gave us Fenix's stunning, match-winning leap off the top, instantly iconic. There's something deeply satisfying that, while the Bucks ended up the longest-reigning tag team champs, they only tied Hangman and Kenny's record for number of successful defenses. AND NEW!!!!!!!!!!! Alex running into the cage to hype his boys up while they cry and bleed and writhe and hug their new belts was. So good. So so good. Match of the night, easily. Wrestling is so good.
THE SHOW IS NOT EVEN HALF OVER AT THIS POINT. HOW THE FUCK.
Women's Casino Battle Royale: I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY WERE GONNA PUT THIS ON THE BUY-IN, THIS WAS SO FUCKING GOOD. Lulu Pencil appearing on an AEW PPV! Abadon's new hair! Anna Jay back in the ring after all these months in rad new gear! Diamante and Kiera Hogan being a fabulous mean little power couple! Why does KiLynn, the tallest woman, not simply eat the others? The ever-shifting alliances! So many potential angles for feuds that AEW may or may not bother to follow up on! Riho being mistakenly eliminated, they really need to follow up on that! Even Jamie was trying to wave it off, she knew she didn't eliminate her! Tay running in like a bat outta hell to return the favour from last week and save her bestie Anna! Tiny little Leyla suplexing brick shithouse Nyla! Whatever the fuck Rebel was trying to do! Nyla just DUMPING Jade out of the ring! And of course, the joker, Ruby Soho, bringing with her fucking RANCID for her entrance theme, meaning I am obligated to love her forever (the fantastic little self-made vignettes she's been posting to twitter have helped a lot, too)! Is this the first time since Hangman won the inaugural Casino Battle Royale that the joker won the whole thing? It IS the second one in a row that my pick to win the thing was the second-to-last one standing, cementing my belief that Thunder Rosa is the chosen one to defeat Britt. Just... not yet. Anyway, Ruby excitedly shouting HI BRYCE and hugging him after she won while he abandoned impartiality to congratulate his old friend went a long way towards making me like him again after the bullshit in the opening match. I'M STILL MAD AT HIM, THOUGH. Love Ruby, though, love her attitude, love her look, can't wait to see more of her in the ring.
MJF vs. Chris Jericho in The Final Fight (If Jericho Loses He Will Never Wrestle Again): Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh. Please god say this feud is over now. Please. Please. Please? Please. And please say that Jericho winning means I won't be cursed with him on Rampage commentary every week GOD THIS WAS ALL SUCH A COLOSSAL FUCKING WASTE OF TIME WHAT WAS THE POINT OF ANY OF THIS. MJF doing the Brian Danielson fakeout troll entrance was pretty funny, though. And at least the Nick Gage match from the five labors ruled. Also MJF in large amounts of pain is kinda hot. Also I got a glimpse of Wardlow, who is VERY hot. Also, the false ending was interesting, if only because they've never restarted a match like that before, and I always like new dramatic precedents being set. I'm gonna go make some macaroni.
Okay, I made some macaroni. It is Cheetos branded, because I am human trash.
CM Punk vs. Darby Allin: Good! Once again, I have no context for CM Punk beyond wrestling twitter being obsessed with him, but while this didn't blow me away, it was a very compelling case for his return to the ring being a welcome one. Darby hugging Sting before sending him to the back was very sweet. Punk not showing much in the way of ring rust was nice, and makes me pretty optimistic that he'll look even better going forward while he keeps shaking off those lost years. Loved him just... sitting up to avoid the Coffin Drop. Overall, just... a good match. Nice storytelling, plenty of emotion, a fired up hometown crowd, a handful of memorable spots, just some good ass wrasslin. More please! Also, Punk needing the audience to tell him which tunnel to go through at the end was extremely cute.
Paul Wight vs. QT Marshall: lol the pee break match; I got more and more bewildered at how late they were saving this until it became clear it was just gonna be the breather between main events, I can appreciate it for what it is much more now that it's in the rearview. Good for the Big Show (and his tiger tattoo), still getting to squash scrubs after all these years. I like that the whole basis for this match was Paul defending the honour of his commentary partner (although Britt doing it would have been better if TK wasn't a coward). The fact that they got the singer of his classic iconic WEEEEEEELLLLLLL theme to sing his new one after twenty years adds so much to it. Also my macaroni was very good and satisfying.
Moxley cuts a fun grumpy promo on Minoru Suzuki and :3333333 MOX V. MURDER GRANDPA ON WEDNESDAY!!!! They even threw in a typically-delightful Malakai promo for good measure, they did that for me!
Kenny Omega (c) vs. Christian Cage for the AEW World Championship: This was great enough that I didn't even think about how it should have been Hangman's night until much later, which is HIGH PRAISE INDEED. Kenny's new blue-black hair is a whole lot of lewk. Love to see a couple of good Canadian boys main eventing like this. Christian came in so hot at the start of this, flying high and hitting hard, he's looked so good since his return. Is the reason tables don't seem to be illegal in AEW because once you set one up it's just an environmental hazard instead of a weapon? Kenny's recovery after he slipped and landed on his ass on the guardrail while trying to do a moonsault was smooth. I'm sure there are people out there writing dissertations analyzing what Kenny's new gear means, but my smooth brain assessment is just that, style-wise, it looks like something Hangman would wear. FORESHADOWING??? Christian just spamming spears out of desperation until Kenny kicks out of the Killswitch and hits that AVALANCHE ONE WINGED ANGEL, holy shit the last few minutes of this are gonna be on replay in my head for a while (bit with the Good Brothers aside). That's three fantastic PPV main events from Kenny in a row (I am ignoring Stadium Stampede II). Avalanche One Winged Angel, man. The way the entire crowd stood up with him for that one, god damn. And at least Christian still has the Impact title as a consolation prize.
And then the internet fucking exploded! The Bucks limping out to congratulate Kenny sans their belts was striking, and my favourite part of the first big reveal was how my MOM was the one who called it. I had been explaining bits of lore and whatnot to her throughout the night, and as soon as the lights went out after Kenny said 'or dead', she just nodded and said 'oh, it's going to be the guy they killed.' ADAM COLE IS #ALLELITE, BAY BAY. Of all the big deal ex-WWE guys to show up, he's the one I actually get SOME of the significance of because I watched all of BTE and remember him from those early days until Kenny convinced the Bucks to poison him. Siding with the Elite for the time being, all hugs and smooches after all these years, gosh what a moment. WHAT WILL IT ALL MEAN GOING FORWARD?? I KNOWETH NOT.
And then Brian Danielson shows up too, just for good measure! The guy everyone was EXPECTING to show up, and then it was Adam Cole instead, so presumably they're saving Danielson for Arthur As-OH PSYCH NEVER MIND THEY'RE BOTH HERE!!!! Dude fucking main evented Wrestlemania this year but here he is! Also his theme is apparently a very fucky remix of Flight of the Valkyries, which rules, and he sides with Christian and Jurassic Express in all the chaos and that's the fuckin' show, what a night! After everyone lost their shit over Double or Nothing which left me comparatively cool, I'm so happy to be completely on board for pretty much everything that went down tonight. My favourite AEW PPV yet by a healthy margin AND HANGMAN WASN'T EVEN IN IT. Goddamn. GODDAMN. I'm just so happy.
tl; dr i love wrestling and need to order more of that cheetos mac 'n' cheese, perhaps in horrifying flamin' hot varieties
The Buy-In: Orange Cassidy, Chuck Taylor, Wheeler Yuta & Jurassic Express vs. Matt Hardy, Private Party & TH2: A big, ridiculous ten-man match to start a big, ridiculous ten-match show? The awkwardness of having to name every member of the Alliance That Is Basically Best Friends But Not Really Without Trent There is hilarious to me. The bit with the big silly six-man submission chain was fun. The two Jacks playing chicken on their partner's shoulders was great. The good guys got the win, and while Orange getting horribly beat up after the bell was very mean, THE BUTCHER IS BACK so I wasn't even mad! Blade and Bunny always coming out on their own for all these months has been so sad, they feel so incomplete without their large weird... co-worker? I will never have a proper handle on what their relationship is meant to be and I feel like that's for the best. And then the big group hug featuring all the guys who were just in the back but aren't on the card? John Silver just looking so darn excited to be in the middle of the cuddle puddle? What a great way to start the night. Also I missed Luchasaurus kissing Orange on the head the first time around.
Best sign in the crowd contender: BAN JAMES CORDEN. Also Dan Lambert still sucks and I still hate that Ethan has been stuck with him. Maybe Scorpio needs it, that dude cannot seem to get over to save his life, but Ethan was on fire when he was feuding with Darby. Though I guess he can't just do that forever, much as I would like it. WHATEVER, ONTO THE SHOW PROPER.
Miro (c) vs. Eddie Kingston for the AEW TNT Championship: My heart is, once again, left in pieces on the floor by an Eddie Kingston PPV match. Fuck, it was so good though. Two very strong men just beating the everloving shit out of each other and yelling and making faces for ten beautifully violent minutes, Miro's chest was a HORRIBLE shade of purple by the end. Very glad that Eddie got out of the Game Over, there's something very intimate about the fact that Mox is the only one who's been able to make him tap out in AEW. Anyway, FUCK BRYCE REMSBURG, ALL MY HOMIES HATE BRYCE REMSBURG (I don't mean that, I love Bryce, he is my favourite ref, BUT I'M STILL MAD AT HIM AFTER THIS). Can't wait to see Eddie tear into him for that bullshit ending on Dynamite, and hopefully it means that he'll get a rematch at Arthur Ashe so he can win the belt in front of a hometown crowd. HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL, REDEEM DEEZ NUTS. I can't believe they started out with the single match I was most looking forward to and still managed to keep me engaged, what a fucking flex.
Best sign in the crowd contender: "?? You Follow Me, Friend". Much better than actually having Cody around tbh.
Jon Moxley vs. Satoshi Kojima: And then Eddie's husband wrecked the good good cozy lariat man and it was faaaaaaantastic. Love that Mox came to the ring in a GCW sweatshirt since he's their champion now. Kojima looked great, and when you consider the fact that he's the same age as Chris Jericho, it kinda makes me wonder if there isn't something to a nice, bread-based lifestyle. Also technically Kojima drew first blood of the night when Mox split his elbow open. Anyway, the post-match was the real stunner here, MURDER GRANDPA IS HERE IN AEW!!!!! I should have expected this, considering how many indie shows he's booked for this month, but Suzuki was not on my radar for potential debuts at all. Mox's either, judging by how horror-stricken he looked when that music hit! Can't believe they're gonna give that one away for free on Dynamite. Definitely a 'finish your drink' moment in the drinking game. Now I want some bread.
Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. (c) vs. Kris Statlander for the AEW Women's World Championship: I knew Kris wasn't going to win, so all I was really hoping for was a good match, since her last big PPV title shot match was underwhelming due to violent illness. I GOT A GOOD MATCH!! I also got pretty sparkly alien facepaint and Orange Cassidy delivering my single favourite moment of the entire 4-hour show when he LOST HIS FUCKING SHIT and just starting SCREAMING at a brutalized Kris to gas her up and get her back in the ring to beat the ten-count. Such a great character beat; that's not a well he can go to very often before risking its effectiveness, so I love that cheering on his friend in her big fight was important enough to break through his cool and make him snap. Nice to see Britt win a big match completely clean, too, even with Rebel and Jamie both in her corner. Not a bad way to break Kris' undefeated streak at all, especially since she never actually submitted to the Lock Jaw in the end, she passed the fuck out before Britt actually got her hand in there. Thunder Rosa's still my pick to defeat Britt eventually, but Kris WILL be our leader one day. I feel it in my jellies.
I wonder if Britt knew her boyfriend had come back from the dead yet. That Pittsburgh Sunrise was beautiful.
Andrade vs. PAC happening on Rampage this week instead. Looks like Andrade's reprieve before I permanently decide if I put him in the 'overrated' box or not will be a short one.
Young Bucks (c) vs. Lucha Brothers in a Steel Cage Match for the AEW World Tag Team Championship: Well hooooooleeeeeee fuck. As soon as Eddie lost, I figured the Lucha Bros.' odds of winning here went up quite a bit, because at least one title HAS to change hands on a big show like this, and then they got that insane fucking over-the-top ring entrance, with lucha dancers and a choir and a live rapper (and Mikey!) who I'm guessing is famous in Mexico and pyro and fireworks and giant feathered Aztec headdresses and then I KNEW they were winning. And then they and the Bucks delivered the match of the night, so! I ain't mad! There's actually a nice throughline here, where two of the teams to come closest to defeating the Bucks in their reign have been Fenix/PAC and Penta/Eddie, so naturally the two brothers together should absolutely be capable of it. When Penta, blood already in his eyes, threw himself in front of the thumbtack sneaker superkick to protect his baby brother? Penta's three tiny daughters all coming out to hug him after the win (getting covered in their dad's blood in the process, but hey). Oh no, my heart. I'm so soft. Nick and Fenix remain wrestling soulmates, I could watch those two fly around like lunatics with each other forever. When they were both climbing up the cage like kitty cats? Beautiful, and it gave us Fenix's stunning, match-winning leap off the top, instantly iconic. There's something deeply satisfying that, while the Bucks ended up the longest-reigning tag team champs, they only tied Hangman and Kenny's record for number of successful defenses. AND NEW!!!!!!!!!!! Alex running into the cage to hype his boys up while they cry and bleed and writhe and hug their new belts was. So good. So so good. Match of the night, easily. Wrestling is so good.
THE SHOW IS NOT EVEN HALF OVER AT THIS POINT. HOW THE FUCK.
Women's Casino Battle Royale: I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY WERE GONNA PUT THIS ON THE BUY-IN, THIS WAS SO FUCKING GOOD. Lulu Pencil appearing on an AEW PPV! Abadon's new hair! Anna Jay back in the ring after all these months in rad new gear! Diamante and Kiera Hogan being a fabulous mean little power couple! Why does KiLynn, the tallest woman, not simply eat the others? The ever-shifting alliances! So many potential angles for feuds that AEW may or may not bother to follow up on! Riho being mistakenly eliminated, they really need to follow up on that! Even Jamie was trying to wave it off, she knew she didn't eliminate her! Tay running in like a bat outta hell to return the favour from last week and save her bestie Anna! Tiny little Leyla suplexing brick shithouse Nyla! Whatever the fuck Rebel was trying to do! Nyla just DUMPING Jade out of the ring! And of course, the joker, Ruby Soho, bringing with her fucking RANCID for her entrance theme, meaning I am obligated to love her forever (the fantastic little self-made vignettes she's been posting to twitter have helped a lot, too)! Is this the first time since Hangman won the inaugural Casino Battle Royale that the joker won the whole thing? It IS the second one in a row that my pick to win the thing was the second-to-last one standing, cementing my belief that Thunder Rosa is the chosen one to defeat Britt. Just... not yet. Anyway, Ruby excitedly shouting HI BRYCE and hugging him after she won while he abandoned impartiality to congratulate his old friend went a long way towards making me like him again after the bullshit in the opening match. I'M STILL MAD AT HIM, THOUGH. Love Ruby, though, love her attitude, love her look, can't wait to see more of her in the ring.
MJF vs. Chris Jericho in The Final Fight (If Jericho Loses He Will Never Wrestle Again): Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh. Please god say this feud is over now. Please. Please. Please? Please. And please say that Jericho winning means I won't be cursed with him on Rampage commentary every week GOD THIS WAS ALL SUCH A COLOSSAL FUCKING WASTE OF TIME WHAT WAS THE POINT OF ANY OF THIS. MJF doing the Brian Danielson fakeout troll entrance was pretty funny, though. And at least the Nick Gage match from the five labors ruled. Also MJF in large amounts of pain is kinda hot. Also I got a glimpse of Wardlow, who is VERY hot. Also, the false ending was interesting, if only because they've never restarted a match like that before, and I always like new dramatic precedents being set. I'm gonna go make some macaroni.
Okay, I made some macaroni. It is Cheetos branded, because I am human trash.
CM Punk vs. Darby Allin: Good! Once again, I have no context for CM Punk beyond wrestling twitter being obsessed with him, but while this didn't blow me away, it was a very compelling case for his return to the ring being a welcome one. Darby hugging Sting before sending him to the back was very sweet. Punk not showing much in the way of ring rust was nice, and makes me pretty optimistic that he'll look even better going forward while he keeps shaking off those lost years. Loved him just... sitting up to avoid the Coffin Drop. Overall, just... a good match. Nice storytelling, plenty of emotion, a fired up hometown crowd, a handful of memorable spots, just some good ass wrasslin. More please! Also, Punk needing the audience to tell him which tunnel to go through at the end was extremely cute.
Paul Wight vs. QT Marshall: lol the pee break match; I got more and more bewildered at how late they were saving this until it became clear it was just gonna be the breather between main events, I can appreciate it for what it is much more now that it's in the rearview. Good for the Big Show (and his tiger tattoo), still getting to squash scrubs after all these years. I like that the whole basis for this match was Paul defending the honour of his commentary partner (although Britt doing it would have been better if TK wasn't a coward). The fact that they got the singer of his classic iconic WEEEEEEELLLLLLL theme to sing his new one after twenty years adds so much to it. Also my macaroni was very good and satisfying.
Moxley cuts a fun grumpy promo on Minoru Suzuki and :3333333 MOX V. MURDER GRANDPA ON WEDNESDAY!!!! They even threw in a typically-delightful Malakai promo for good measure, they did that for me!
Kenny Omega (c) vs. Christian Cage for the AEW World Championship: This was great enough that I didn't even think about how it should have been Hangman's night until much later, which is HIGH PRAISE INDEED. Kenny's new blue-black hair is a whole lot of lewk. Love to see a couple of good Canadian boys main eventing like this. Christian came in so hot at the start of this, flying high and hitting hard, he's looked so good since his return. Is the reason tables don't seem to be illegal in AEW because once you set one up it's just an environmental hazard instead of a weapon? Kenny's recovery after he slipped and landed on his ass on the guardrail while trying to do a moonsault was smooth. I'm sure there are people out there writing dissertations analyzing what Kenny's new gear means, but my smooth brain assessment is just that, style-wise, it looks like something Hangman would wear. FORESHADOWING??? Christian just spamming spears out of desperation until Kenny kicks out of the Killswitch and hits that AVALANCHE ONE WINGED ANGEL, holy shit the last few minutes of this are gonna be on replay in my head for a while (bit with the Good Brothers aside). That's three fantastic PPV main events from Kenny in a row (I am ignoring Stadium Stampede II). Avalanche One Winged Angel, man. The way the entire crowd stood up with him for that one, god damn. And at least Christian still has the Impact title as a consolation prize.
And then the internet fucking exploded! The Bucks limping out to congratulate Kenny sans their belts was striking, and my favourite part of the first big reveal was how my MOM was the one who called it. I had been explaining bits of lore and whatnot to her throughout the night, and as soon as the lights went out after Kenny said 'or dead', she just nodded and said 'oh, it's going to be the guy they killed.' ADAM COLE IS #ALLELITE, BAY BAY. Of all the big deal ex-WWE guys to show up, he's the one I actually get SOME of the significance of because I watched all of BTE and remember him from those early days until Kenny convinced the Bucks to poison him. Siding with the Elite for the time being, all hugs and smooches after all these years, gosh what a moment. WHAT WILL IT ALL MEAN GOING FORWARD?? I KNOWETH NOT.
And then Brian Danielson shows up too, just for good measure! The guy everyone was EXPECTING to show up, and then it was Adam Cole instead, so presumably they're saving Danielson for Arthur As-OH PSYCH NEVER MIND THEY'RE BOTH HERE!!!! Dude fucking main evented Wrestlemania this year but here he is! Also his theme is apparently a very fucky remix of Flight of the Valkyries, which rules, and he sides with Christian and Jurassic Express in all the chaos and that's the fuckin' show, what a night! After everyone lost their shit over Double or Nothing which left me comparatively cool, I'm so happy to be completely on board for pretty much everything that went down tonight. My favourite AEW PPV yet by a healthy margin AND HANGMAN WASN'T EVEN IN IT. Goddamn. GODDAMN. I'm just so happy.
tl; dr i love wrestling and need to order more of that cheetos mac 'n' cheese, perhaps in horrifying flamin' hot varieties
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as ever i understand approximately half of this at best but it sounds delightful, i love this wrestle lore shit
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it was such a great night ;______;