ALL OUT VI - 9/7/2024

[Octopus]

I’m really bummed I missed Stat vs Willow. Had to drop something off at my brother-in-laws. Sounds like I missed a banger and I’m a big fan of both. 

[The Natural]

Watching Kris Statlander vs. Willow Nightingale has finally motivated me to do my ten best AEW Women's matches:

10. Riho vs. Nyla Rose. AEW Double or Nothing 2020.

9. Thunder Rosa vs. Britt Baker. AEW Dynamite, 16th March 2022.

8. Serena Deeb vs. Riho. AEW Double or Nothing 2021.

7. Willow Nightingale/Ruby Soho vs. Anna Jay/Tay Conti. AEW Rampage, 13th January 2023.

6. Athena vs. Marina Shafir. AEW Dark, 10th January 2023.

5. Kris Statlander vs. Willow Nightingale. AEW All Out 2024.

4. Timeless Toni Storm vs. Mariah May. AEW All In 2024.

3. Anna Jay/Tay Conti vs. The Bunny/Penelope Ford. AEW Rampage, 31st December 2021.

2. Toni Storm vs. Jamie Hayter. AEW Full Gear 2022.

1. Thunder Rosa vs. Britt Baker. AEW St. Patrick's Day Slam Dynamite, 17th March 2021. *****.

What do you think? 

Edited September 8 by The Natural

[The Natural]

2 minutes ago, Octopus said:

I’m really bummed I missed Stat vs Willow. Had to drop something off at my brother-in-laws. Sounds like I missed a banger and I’m a big fan of both. 

MOTN.

[EVA]

What’s this I’m hearing? Reports that Danielson/Perry was good?

Who could have known!?

[Curt McGirt]

We're all sleeping on Mercedes' American Gladiators outfit! Tackyyyyyyy. 

Yeah and if you thought I watched it hell no

[Leonidas]

What happened with the MM/Shida match? Shida hit 3 Katana's, MM kicked out at 1, rolled to the outside, rolled back in, easily hit her finish and pinned her?

[Curt McGirt]

THAT was how it worked out? 

You see why I don't watch matches of theirs?

[Overly Critical Man]

9 minutes ago, Leonidas said:

What happened with the MM/Shida match? Shida hit 3 Katana's, MM kicked out at 1, rolled to the outside, rolled back in, easily hit her finish and pinned her?

The buzz on Twitter is Mercedes’ wig was falling off, which totally justifies her killing Shida’s finish and giving us that shitty ending. But whatever. 

[TimLivingston]

I don’t think AEW has put on a more impactful PPV than this. MAYBE All Out 2021 when Cole and Bryan first showed up.

There were production choices that were note perfect. The big chances they took match-wise and angle-wise hit big. Top to bottom, the in-ring work was good at worst, even if there were things that got a bit sloppy or convoluted at points, which comes with the territory in AEW. 

You come away with two major occurrences that push the envelope in different ways but both succeeded, you set up a ton of stuff going forward, you had some star making performances both overtly and subtly…it’s as big a success you can have with a single wrestling show. 

[Octopus]

1 hour ago, EVA said:

What’s this I’m hearing? Reports that Danielson/Perry was good?

Who could have known!?

You should see a doctor about your memory. You were saying it’ll be good just a day ago.

[zendragon]

4 hours ago, Stefanie Sparkleface said:

To support your point, Haku and the Barbarian could have beaten up the entire population of the planet at one point, and they lost all the time. Legitimate toughness has only mattered in pro wrestling if you worked for Bill Watts.

BRING BACK WATTS!!!

[Lawful Metal]

3 hours ago, The Natural said:

Watching Kris Statlander vs. Willow Nightingale has finally motivated me to do my ten best AEW Women's matches:

10. Riho vs. Nyla Rose. AEW Double or Nothing 2020.

9. Thunder Rosa vs. Britt Baker. AEW Dynamite, 16th March 2022.

8. Serena Deeb vs. Riho. AEW Double or Nothing 2021.

7. Willow Nightingale/Ruby Soho vs. Anna Jay/Tay Conti. AEW Rampage, 13th January 2023.

6. Athena vs. Marina Shafir. AEW Dark, 10th January 2023.

5. Kris Statlander vs. Willow Nightingale. AEW All Out 2024.

4. Timeless Toni Storm vs. Mariah May. AEW All In 2024.

3. Anna Jay/Tay Conti vs. The Bunny/Penelope Ford. AEW Rampage, 31st December 2021.

2. Toni Storm vs. Jamie Hayter. AEW Full Gear 2022.

1. Thunder Rosa vs. Britt Baker. AEW St. Patrick's Day Slam Dynamite, 17th March 2021. *****.

What do you think? 

You’re missing Hayter v Shida New Year’s Eve smash ?

[SovietShooter]

4 hours ago, The Natural said:

 

BCC are World Trios Champions under Claudio/PAC/Yuta. Guessing they'll Freebird it. Last thing you need is another tournament.

I have a feeling we're about to see a struggle for the soul of Wheeler Yuta. Pac holding him back indicates Yuta wasn't looped in on what went down, but they never attacked him or anything either.  I think Mox/Claudio are going to view this as a learning opportunity for Yuta, and he will either embrace it, or denounce it.

Get ready for a few "will he or won't he?" cliffhangers...

[Craig H]

Hot take: This is AEW’s best year ever from both a storyline and an in ring perspective and it sucks that viewership isn’t reflecting that. They’ve had 3? 4? consistently good to great months of storyline progression, threading the needle in difficult situations, less abandoned storylines, and so on. Everything is clicking.

Also, after watching Willow vs Stat, I think the worst bump of the night was Stat landing straight on her tailbone on that dive through the table. And see, this is why it’s good to have a booty, male or female, because being all caked up is going to save you months of pain from your tailbone.

Fucking Stokely wearing a Belly t-shirt killed me.

SMILE ANYWAY MOTHERFUCKERS

[StuntmanCrowley]

5 hours ago, Craig H said:

AEW fucking rules. I’ve been waiting for TK to re-use the Flair/Funk angle and the Homicide/Colt angle and I’m going to laugh like fucking crazy when Mox tries to pour Drano down Danielson’s throat. 

The cage match ruled the world. Fuck plastic bags and needles. These psychos were taking bumps on an actual cinder block. 

I need to watch the rest of the show. I didn’t get home until midnight from a marching band competition so I started watching, immediately fell asleep, woke up for the world title match and got a second wind  that ended right about when the show ended.

I know we had an issue in the past but I couldn't agree with this entire post more.  That cage match was violence in the best possible way.

[Nice Guy Eddie]

I throughly enjoyed All Out. I think I liked it more than All In. I'm just not used to watching a ppv at 1 in the afternoon when I'm just waking up. I have no buyer's remorse for ordering both All In and All Out. 

[SovietShooter]

2 hours ago, Craig H said:

Also, after watching Willow vs Stat, I think the worst bump of the night was Stat landing straight on her tailbone on that dive through the table.

Also, Stat kinda pushed the table over, and as Willow slid off of it, her lower legs went back under it as it tipped.  Everyone is very lucky it didn't snap both of her legs. 

[Curt McGirt]

To add to that, Stat really had to push Willow because the table was so far away. And Willow is far from a scarecrow of a person size-wise. Guess that's where all that time in the gym helps. 

[For Great Justice]

The double LP nature of All In and All Out was good, poetic stuff. All In being held in daylight, bright colors, big stadium, babyfaces mostly win, fun cameos, joy. All Out: dimly lit arena, heels reign supreme, ultra violence, blood, hate.

It definitely felt intentional. Cool stuff.

[Nice Guy Eddie]

We really should have seen the Claudio turn coming. Look at his history:

Turns on ROH to side with CZW

Turns on the technicos to side with the Bruderschaft des Kreuzes

I love Claudio as a wrestler, but as a person, he is not to be trusted. 

Edited September 8 by Nice Guy Eddie

[Sublime]

I want to elaborate on why some of the cage match didn’t work for me it wasn’t just the violence in itself and what I’m saying is just as much about the bag angle beforehand as well. But there is a level of violence that takes me out of my sense of disbelief and attempted murder is that. Unless a promotion has built a detailed contained world it exists in, like Lucha Underground or Chikara did, I take wrestling to be a sport in event taking place in the real world. And stuff like suffocating people and fighting to stab each other in the face go beyond wrestling violence. Why should Daniel Bryan the family man we just watch having his family be everything to him not go to the authorities to have Mox arrested for trying to kill him and destroy his family , instead it will be settled in the ring? That doesn’t work with my view of the world AEW exists in. This is the reason I’ve always thought Inferno matches were dumb  or any time of lighting someone on fire has been done is too far. 
 

Edited September 9 by Sublime

[Log]

I thought the coolest part of the cage match was the beginning when Swerve tried to hold Hangman on the apron so the lowering cage would crush him, but then Hangman held on and Nana had to push them both out of the way at the last second. 
 

Jack Perry had the two best bumps off of Danielson’s knee that I’ve ever seen. 

[The Natural]

9 hours ago, The Natural said:

Watching Kris Statlander vs. Willow Nightingale has finally motivated me to do my ten best AEW Women's matches:

10. Riho vs. Nyla Rose. AEW Double or Nothing 2020.

9. Thunder Rosa vs. Britt Baker. AEW Dynamite, 16th March 2022.

8. Serena Deeb vs. Riho. AEW Double or Nothing 2021.

7. Willow Nightingale/Ruby Soho vs. Anna Jay/Tay Conti. AEW Rampage, 13th January 2023.

6. Athena vs. Marina Shafir. AEW Dark, 10th January 2023.

5. Kris Statlander vs. Willow Nightingale. AEW All Out 2024.

4. Timeless Toni Storm vs. Mariah May. AEW All In 2024.

3. Anna Jay/Tay Conti vs. The Bunny/Penelope Ford. AEW Rampage, 31st December 2021.

2. Toni Storm vs. Jamie Hayter. AEW Full Gear 2022.

1. Thunder Rosa vs. Britt Baker. AEW St. Patrick's Day Slam Dynamite, 17th March 2021. *****.

What do you think? 

 

5 hours ago, Lawful Metal said:

You’re missing Hayter v Shida New Year’s Eve smash ?

I am. Good shout.

[The Natural]

5 hours ago, SovietShooter said:

I have a feeling we're about to see a struggle for the soul of Wheeler Yuta. Pac holding him back indicates Yuta wasn't looped in on what went down, but they never attacked him or anything either.  I think Mox/Claudio are going to view this as a learning opportunity for Yuta, and he will either embrace it, or denounce it.

Get ready for a few "will he or won't he?" cliffhangers...

Agreed.

[SovietShooter]

55 minutes ago, Sublime said:

I take wrestling to be a sport in event taking place in the real world. And stuff like suffocating people and fighting to stab each other in the face go beyond wrestling violence. Why should Daniel Bryan the family man we just watch having his family be everything to him not go to the authorities to have Mox arrested for trying to kill him and destroy his family , instead it will be settled in the ring? That doesn’t work with my view of the world AEW exists in.

To play Devil's Advocate a bit... what about Eddie Gilbert running over Jerry Lawler with his car?  Was it just wrestling continuity when Terry Funk used the bag on Flair?  What about Raven crucifying Sandman and stealing his wife & son?  Tommy Dreamer piledriving various women?  Pouring beer on Scott Hall? Kevin Sullivan spiking Wing Kanamura? Bad News breaking The Stomper's son's neck?

Where is the line, and when is it crossed?