MoS

The biggest quarter obviously was the Elite/Danielson segment, but it is instructive that the second was Soho-Hayter. Ruby clearly is over and has a lot of interest, and Britt is a superstar. Their women's division has some legit stars now, it's now only a matter of better booking where there are more than one big storyline running in the women's division and consistently featured on TV. Swole and Diamante having their own feud on YouTube is a good start but they have enough good workers and over characters to do the same on TV as well

I am not a big fan of Adam Cole, but he felt ten times cooler and bigger of a star yesterday than he did in his entire WWE run. Maybe it's the big hot crowd, but even his promo was better.

Kingston should talk about how he headlined in Tijuana every time there's a masked wrestler in the ring

The idea that the Good Brothers suck comes from the fact that they suck hard. There has not been a single match in AEW which has not been dragged down by their useless asses. They also get zero reaction when they walk out on their own, so they are also unover as fuck. Thank God they didn't sign up for AEW initially and chose to fuck over their friends. Them being a featured act from the first show like the original plan was would have ensured that the show sank immediately.

Goldberg shoot injured himself punching the non-gimmicked car window, but I remember him working some injury angle with the Steiners prior to that too, when Hogan and Flair were having their drama. I had absolutely zero memory of Rodman wrestling Savage though, like literally none lol. Looking at the WWE buyrates of the 2010s is interesting. Unless headlined by a Lesnar match, most B-show PPVs were struggling to hit 200k, so if All Out does crack that number, that's a gigantic success. It would also be poetic if this outdraws Money in the Bank 2011.

(Also, interesting that Road Wild that year was so successful, outdrawing Bash at the Beach and Halloween Havoc. Was Road Wild when Goldberg returned after his injury angle?)

I checked and 22 years and 4 months would be Slamboree 1999, which did approximately 195,000 buys - https://wrestlenomics.com/resources/wcw-pay-per-view-buys/ Looks like the PPV definitely cracked 200,000 buys. It would be interesting to see how many WWE B-shows were getting 200k buys in the last few years of the PPV era.

He is young and handsome, it's a meme more than anything, he's barely had two lines to say in the show's history. But he usually stands there looking mean and handsome as his dad talks trash

Nick Jackson's nose ring was like perfect heel shtick. He in particular has really won me over in this heel run. It's made me realize that the things I find most annoying about the Bucks are usually Matt related.

Also, while I loved Mox being adored by his hometown crowd, surely they could have cut a minute of that and given that to Suzuki's entrance instead?

Mox v. Suzuki was rushed and I can never forgive them cutting off MiSu's song, but what an episode of Dynamite. Apart from the great matches and segments, I loved how they managed to shine a spotlight on their young talent. Feels like such a hot promotion and a hot show, just great to watch.

The guy who looked like he picked his outfit from the local Walmart near the arena on his way to the show looks far better dressed

Not even kidding, AEW should book Suzuki for one more date just so the crowd can chant that without the music getting cut off. It's a small thing but this is a promotion whose big selling point is giving fans things they want, and like, this would be a nice makeup gift.

If I had to guess, the Punk and MJF segments ran long.

Bryan Danielson v. Nick Jackson would actually be excellent

It's Bryan's hairstyle

Lmao Danielson making Omega look like an absolute geek on the mic, and he's barely been speaking for a minute

If QT is Cody's Brother BruT, then who is Shawn Spears?

I get that Cole shitting on Schiavone is easy heat for him, but imagine Adam Cole calling someone else a nerd, eh. This is a man who idolized Hunter and Shawn, and only left WWE cuz they wouldn't let him play on Twitch.

He would be awesome as the version of Liger doing nasty matwork and occasional big spots. He is really jacked so I want to see John Silver v. PAC, cuz little meaty men slapping meat

LMAO I thought you meant Ten of the Dark Order. My bad bubba. Shawn Spears is okay as someone who takes falls for the Pinnacle but yeah, I have no time for him otherwise. I would have made Wardlow do double duty tbh

Most of FTR's AEW run has honestly underwhelmed me. Their appeal always was synthesizing traditional tag psychology with modern spots and pacing. Now they are an inferior copy of Arn and Tully.

TayJay should beat their boys until they stop behaving like dumb teenagers imho

He is a part of one of their most over acts and one they are doing a dissension angle with, probably tying it back to Hangman. Of course he is going to be put on this show

Not sure what to think of this Dark Order breakup angle