All Elite Wrestling
All In London 2024
August 25, 2024
Wembley Stadium
London, England
Watch: PPV
Steve Case: It’s been awhile since Steve has graced the overview scene. He’s been too busy attempting to maintain up along with his spouse’s creativity! Whether or not it’s contributing extra incessantly to this very web site together with her wrestling journey web site, or making a youngsters’s guide collection with a professional wrestling for infants guide and a merchandise web site, she’s lapped Steve in that division. However relating to professional wrestling critiques, Steve continues to be high of his family (for now). AEW PPV’s, virtually all the time ship, and most instances ship huge. With this card, this crowd, these matches, and THOSE potential/possible surprises, this present needs to be no totally different!
AEW All In London 2024 Zero Hour
16 Man Tag Workforce Match
Kyle Fletcher, Rocky Romero, Kip Sabien, Tommy Billington, Motion Andretti, Darius Martin, Dante Martin, & Lio Rush def. Anthony Ogogo, Jay Deadly, Satnam Singh, Marq Quen, Alex Reynolds, John Silver, Ariya Davari, & Isaiah Kassidy
Steve: Nicely right here is your “let’s get everybody on the cardboard” match. Questioning if they’ll do a girls’s match on this pre present as properly? This was a enjoyable, albeit type of sloppy match. Kyle Fletcher continues to look nice, which could come in useful with the brand new Australian present coming subsequent 12 months. Everyone hit their signature stuff, Billington received a British Bulldog pop for his music, and Kip Sabien was weirdly tremendous over. Sure, I do know he’s from England, however he’s Kip Sabien. Anyway, Dante Martin picked up the win out of all folks along with his double between the legs splash. **¾
AEW All In London 2024 Zero Hour
Combined Tag Workforce Match
Tomohiro Ishii & Willow Nightingale def. Kris Statlander & Stokely Hathaway
Steve: Stokely’s entrance and costume actually popped my spouse with the Egyptian imagery. Willow and Ishii each received fairly good pops from the filling constructing. This was a fairly paint by numbers, type of sloppy match till Stokely tagged in. Statlander going after Ishii began a sequence that noticed Stokely give Ishii a surprisingly nice spinebuster that Ishii hilariously no bought. Stokely then did the ten punches within the nook spot that Ishii once more no bought and led to a powerbomb. Stokely is the type of comedy wrestling I take pleasure in. He’s not excessive, he tries to wrestle, however the facials, mannerisms, and opponents reactions off of him are good. I can’t name this good, however the ending sequence was at the very least enjoyable. **1/4
AEW All In London 2024 Zero Hour
Ten Man Tag Workforce Match
Dustin Rhodes, Katsuyori Shibata, Sammy Guevara & The Von Erichs (Marshall von Erich & Ross von Erich) def. Cage Of Agony (Bishop Kaun, Brian Cage & Toa Liona) & The Undisputed Kingdom (Matt Taven & Mike Bennett)
Steve: You usually hear about wrestling matches devolving into automobile crashes. Some are electrical and enjoyable, some utterly crumble. I can’t say that this utterly fell aside, nevertheless it was a lot nearer to that than being an electrical spectacle. Sammy Guevara appeared fairly good for the primary huge present of his punishment/reclamation run. Cage doing a giant dive and nobody caught him was fairly humorous. Even the commentators had a chuckle at that. The face group wins after some chaos. Shifting on. **
Jamie Hayter returns to AEW
To shut the pre-show, Saraya got here out to the ring together with her household and entourage complaining about not being on the cardboard. JAMIE HAYTER returns to a HUGE pop. Do folks nonetheless complain about this girls’s division? The place’d they go?
AEW World Trios Title London Ladder Match
Blackpool Fight Membership (Claudio Castagnoli & Wheeler Yuta) & PAC def. The Patriarchy (Christian Cage, Killswitch & Nick Wayne) (w/Shayna Wayne) ©, Home Of Black (Brody King, Buddy Matthews & Malakai Black), & the Bang Bang Gang (Austin Gunn, Colten Gunn & Juice Robinson)
Steve: I do know it was simply the pre present, however I’m not ought to I’d observe a bunch of untamed, chaos stuffed multiman matches with a wild multiman chaotic match to start out the present. Really feel like a singles match would have been a greater opener for this present.
This was each bit the chaotic automobile crash it was anticipated to be. Nick Wayne and Juice Robinson particularly taking some vital bumps. Christian was nice as traditional in his function, operating away initially till everybody else was down and out. One thing simply didn’t click on for me right here although. Possibly it was due to the preshow that got here earlier than it, however nothing actually clicked for me. The motion was good and everybody labored onerous, however there was no pop or spark for me. Attention-grabbing that PAC and BCC B squad wins. I’m wondering if the BCC is useless now. ***1/2
AEW Ladies’s World Title Match
Mariah Might def. Toni Storm (c)
Steve: The early story of this match rocked, as an overconfident Mariah simply beat the crap out of Toni for a number of minutes. SHe even kissed Nigel and SLAPPED THE TASTE OUT OF HER OWN MOTHER! EEEEEVVVVVIIIILLLLLLL. Toni received the upperhand with a piledriver on the steps, busting Mariah open, and it was a warfare from then on. These two girls beat absolutely the tar out of one another. This was heading for a satisfying blow off, then we received the DRAMA. The silly shoe. I do know it’s been part of the story, however to have that type of match come all the way down to being conflicted over utilizing a shoe? That is the type of stuff that should go away. I went from wanting one other match out of those two to by no means wanting them within the ring collectively once more. An amazing match ruined by an terrible end. ***1/2
FTW Title Match
Hook def. Chris Jericho (w/Large Invoice & Bryan Keith) (c)
Steve: I equally like and hate the truth that the Studying Tree boys received concerned instantly, making the most of the stipulation, nevertheless it actually didn’t assist the match circulation in any respect. I can’t purchase Hook towards three dudes placing up a combat, particularly when one is Large Invoice, who was OVER with the Wembley crowd. They did cricket spots with the stick and balls (I don’t know what they’re really known as and I too cringed as I typed that), together with one the place I feel Hook was imagined to drop him on the balls. Downside is, he missed all of them. Later within the match, Hook inexplicably decides to point out everybody he can see after permitting himself to be outnumbered and handicapped for 80% of the match. It lastly took Taz getting up from commentary to cease Bryan Keith with a Tazmission as Hook faucets out Chris Jericho. A nonsensical mess. This isn’t shaping up as an incredible present up to now. *
AEW World Tag Workforce Title Three Approach Match
The Younger Bucks (Matthew Jackson & Nicholas Jackson) (c) def. FTR (Money Wheeler & Dax Harwood) & The Acclaimed (Anthony Bowens & Max Caster) (w/Billy Gunn)
Steve: This was most likely the perfect match on this present up to now, nevertheless it nonetheless lacked one thing. There’s no ardour, no hearth, no coronary heart. Every thing up to now has felt lifeless, which needs to be onerous to do in entrance of fifty,000 folks. This was properly labored and everybody appeared fairly good, nevertheless it was like they laid out a match a step beneath greatness and met it appropriately. Usually, that will be superb on a loaded present. Not tonight although. The Bucks retain. I’m in a temper it appears. ***1/2
After the match, the Grizzled Younger vets confronted the Bucks, however then attacked FTR. Their end appeared GREAT. Hopefully they’ll inject some life right into a lackluster tag division.
AEW World Title #1 Contendership On line casino Gauntlet Match
Christian Cage def. Roderick Sturdy, Mark Briscoe, Orange Cassidy, Kyle O’Reilly, Adam Web page, Kzuchika Okada, Nigel McGuinnis, Jeff Jarrett, Ricochet, Zack Sabre Jr., and Luchasaurus
Steve: Man, that pre-show felt prefer it took perpetually, huh? What a gauntlet match. This was a great deal of enjoyable. About as star-studded a match you might probably ask for. The Ricochet debut, Nigel coming again, Zack contemporary off his G1 win squaring off with Nigel, Hangman popping out and wrecking everybody. So many nice sequences and moments. The end with Christian successful as a result of Luchasaurus fell a bit flat, nevertheless it retains Christian on the mega heel gatekeeper he’s good at. Go watch this match. Begin the present at this match. ****1/2
AEW American Title Match
Will Ospreay def. MJF (c)
Steve: Max’s profession arc is fascinating to me. He’s utterly incapable of simply being himself. He tried to be Aptitude. He tried to be Punk. He tried to be Adam Cole. Now he’s attempting desperately to persuade everybody that he’s a greater Will Ospreay. It’s a terrific profession lengthy story even when the execution doesn’t all the time land (see Cole, Adam). The factor is he’s now attempting to be higher than the perfect wrestler on this planet and he simply merely can’t. He needed to cheat to win the Dynamite match utilizing the ring. He tried to at least one up WIll on this match so many instances and he couldn’t, so he resorted to dishonest time and again. This time, one in every of his free ends got here again to chunk him in a GREAT spot for Daniel Garcia to come back again. The match itself was glorious, however properly beneath the extent they reached with the Dynamite match. This was a narrative match in the perfect methods. These two possible are possible executed for awhile, however not perpetually. ****
AEW TBS Title Match
Mercedes Mone (w/Kamille) (c) def. Dr. Britt Baker DMD
Steve: This was a bizarre match. These two are identified for some sloppiness of their work. That’s not a foul factor, because it offers their matches a component of hazard and realism to them. The issue is, they want a associate who can preserve issues from going too far off the rails. If you put these two in there collectively, there’s nobody holding issues collectively. That each one stated, they each labored very onerous and that form of made issues compelling, however the chemistry simply was not there to make this memorable. All of this on high of the actual fact they simply following the gauntlet match and MJF/Will, so the gang didn’t care in any respect. I’d say these two have a greater one in them if it have been shorter, however I actually don’t know in the event that they do. Mercedes wins together with her bizarre wanting end. ***
AEW TNT Title Coffin Match
Jack Perry (c) vs. Darby Allin
Steve: Nicely, that was definitive. These two crazies did some wild stuff, however Jack Perry primarily squashed Darby Allin. This was quick, candy, and to the purpose. Darby took some wild bumps as traditional and this actually made Perry appear to be a sadistic killer. ***¾
Publish-match, the Bucks tried to mild the casket with Darby in it on hearth, however DAD’S HOME! Sting returned to a HUGE pop to save lots of Darby from cremation. Metallica blared, and the gang accepted.
AEW World Title Vs. Profession Match
Swerve Strickland (c) vs. Bryan Danielson
Steve: PRO WRESTLING. My god what a match. The work was excellent, the drama was heavy, each wrestlers have been in peak kind, and this crowd was OUTSTANDING. Swerve was a brutal killer precisely how he wanted to be. The dude is a MADE MAN. Folks will complain concerning the Hangman spot, however they by no means touched, he by no means received within the ring, and it didn’t result in the end. It protects Swerve in a manner that he can say he had Danielson beat and with good purpose, however he’s received to remove Hangman now to get again there. The group was into this the entire manner, from screaming the Closing Countdown, to each soul within the constructing standing in awe of what they have been seeing, to shedding their minds when Swerve tapped out. Nice job Wembley.
Let’s speak concerning the biggest skilled wrestler to ever lace a pair of shoes. Many say, together with me, there’s an excessive amount of drama in at the moment’s professional wrestling. It will get too heavy handed and too group theater. This goes for all firms. However when you’ve gotten an absolute grasp of this at work, that’s utilizing the physicality and battle of the match to point out the large bleeding coronary heart that won’t die, you get sucked in. This match was about love. Bryan Danielson’s love of professional wrestling, certain. However moreso, the love of his household. That love pouring into his coronary heart and soul for his household wouldn’t let him die. Commentary mentioning that his household instructed him they don’t need this to be the top and that they need Bryan to be the one to make that decision solely drove that time house. Bryan Danielson, dripping in blood, taking some heavy kicks to the chest as he stares at his household yelling how he loves them, man. How are you going to not get behind that?
This match wasn’t about strikes, although there have been nice ones. It wasn’t about aggression, although it was there in abundance. It wasn’t about spectacle, although it doesn’t get a lot better. It was about love. A person loving wrestling. A person loving his household. His refusal to give up due to it. And it was superb to look at. *****