All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite: AEW All Out (2024)
September 7, 2024 5:14 PM - Season 5 (Specials) - Subscribe

We've come once again to the anniversary of All Elite Wrestling's inaugural show as a new promotion. Last year in Chicago... had a lot to overcome, but AEW is having a Hot Wrestling Autumn, coming off a well-received return to Wembley Stadium and headed towards Grand Slam in NYC later this month. A lot of matches tonight, but the main focus will be on (1) Danielson placing an "I Win Or I Quit" stipulation on all his title matches, (2) WIll Ospreay facing a fellow countryman with whom he has a history, and (3) Swerve and Hangman are going to MURDER each other in a cage.

The announced card for ALL OUT:

FREE ZERO-HOUR PRE-SHOW
The Acclaimed (Max Caster & Anthony Bowens) w/Billy Gunn vs. The Iron Savages (Boulder & Bronson) w/Jacked Jameson

Dustin Rhodes, Sammy Guevara & Hologram vs. The Premiere Athletes (Tony Nese, Ariya Daivari & Josh Woods)

The Bang Bang Gang (Juice Robinson, Austin Gunn & Colten Gunn) vs. The Dark Order (John Silver, Alex Reynolds, & Evil Uno)

Top Flight (Dante & Darius Martin) and Action Andretti vs. Shane Taylor, Lee Moriarty & The Beast Mortos vs. Undisputed Kingdom (Matt Taven, Mike Bennett & Roderick Strong)
MAIN CARD
MJF vs. Daniel Garcia

Chicago Street Fight: Willow Nightingale vs. Kris Statlander

AEW Tag Team Championship Match: The Young Bucks (Matthew & Nicholas Jackson) (c) vs. Blackpool Combat Club (Claudio Castagnoli & Wheeler Yuta)

TBS Championship Match: Mercedes Moné (c) vs. Hikaru Shida

AEW Continental Championship Four-Way Match: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Mark Briscoe vs. Orange Cassidy vs. Konosuke Takeshita

AEW International Championship Match: Will Ospreay (c) vs. PAC

AEW World Championship Match: Bryan Danielson (c) vs. Jack Perry -- Danielson has stipulated that he will retire if he loses the championship

Unsanctioned "Lights Out" Steel Cage Match: Swerve Strickland vs. Hangman Page
posted by The Pluto Gangsta (5 comments total)
 
Spotted in the audience, an audience member with a sign: "MJF IS AMERICA (derogatory)". Love it.

What I don't love is that the cameraman gave us a perfectly-framed shot of Daniel Garcia blading his forehead and production failed to cut away. To quote Eddie Kingston "I know kayfabe is dead but you don't gotta piss on its grave."
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 5:19 PM on September 7


I have a sneaky feeling something went awry in the first match finish, like maybe Garcia was supposed to reach the ropes when MJF went for the jackknife pin, and then they vamped for time by staging that extra post-match angle. What I mean, I can't really think of a reason why someone would choose to have MJF win this when the whole purpose of the match and this vengeance angle was to re-launch Daniel Garcia.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 5:34 PM on September 7


I never thought Castagnoli & Yuta had a shot -- doubling up the Trios Championships with the Tag-Team titles on the same people would be a tacit admission that they were redundant -- but I'm glad to see that Yuta no longer exists to eat tags for the BCC. It was also fun for the commentary team to say Yuta was "one of the most dominant ROH Pure Champions ever" who "really put the title on the map" which leaves Nigel sputtering with anger.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 6:05 PM on September 7


Ospreay vs PAC came away as though it was a highlight reel compilation of great spots from a dozen matches, but no, they got all that shit done in ONE MATCH. Working twice as fast as anyone else on this card.

On the other hand, I thought Nightingale vs. Statlander was going to be a relative breather but nooope. Both women took nasty bumps and bled -- second red match tonight! I was surprised to see that Kris took the victory, but on reflection Willow needs some time away to defend her CMLL title, and possibly Statlander is now free to unleash her hardcore attitude on other, more deserving foes.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 6:53 PM on September 7


Start to finish, this may be one of AEW's best pay-per-views so far. Hangman vs. Swerve was possibly the bloodiest "extreme" style match -- outside of GCW or anything involving Nick Gage -- that I've seen from a national promotion.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 9:01 PM on September 7


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