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00:00 I'm Oli Davis, this is the WrestleTalk News, and finally, we can talk about an AEW show

00:10 and just enjoy how great and fun it was onscreen, with no backstage controversies or media scrum

00:16 shoot promos to complicate our feelings.

00:19 The pre-show began with the over-budget charity Battle Royale, where the winner gets to donate

00:48 the $50,000 prize money to a charity of their choosing.

00:51 It consisted of most of AEW's undercard and Hangman Page.

00:56 So guess who won?

00:57 It was an admirably brash move from Tony Khan.

01:00 Hey Chicago, try booing Hangman Page now, he's just donated the $50,000 prize money

01:05 to your city's public education fund.

01:08 He fought off the Embassy in the final three to win.

01:11 After defending her Women's Championship in front of 81,000 people last week, Sheida

01:15 was in a random six woman tag on the pre-show here.

01:18 This is such a harsh fall down the card, she actually ended up in a Ring of Honor feud,

01:22 potentially starting a storyline with Women's Champion there Athena.

01:25 The random babyface team won with Chicago's own Sky Blue getting the pin.

01:29 Ruse shouted at his faction to take over AEW in a short film vignette.

01:33 The acclaimed beat Team TNA with an appropriate level of shenanigans for a match with Jeff

01:38 Jarrett in.

01:39 And that is to say, all the shenanigans.

01:42 Daddy Ass replaced the referee at the start with Aubrey Edwards, so Jeff and his wife

01:46 Karen could continue their feud with her.

01:48 Dennis Rodman was ringside and ended up busting a guitar over Satnam Singh's head, for Aubrey

01:53 to clearly see him in the ring holding the remaining fretboard surrounded by guitar debris

02:00 with Satnam Singh knocked out.

02:01 And Aubrey's like… everything seems fine to me, let's let the match continue.

02:09 The main card was opened by Adam Cole and MJF defending their ROH tag team titles against

02:15 the Dark Order.

02:16 I'll say this now so I can get it out the way.

02:18 Yes, this pay-per-view massively overdelivered on in-ring quality considering the very underwhelming

02:22 card going in.

02:23 I had an absolute blast watching this show.

02:26 But that doesn't suddenly forgive a significantly lacking build, nor the majority of All Out's

02:31 matches being better suited to weekly TV than the calibre AEW pay-per-views have set.

02:35 A lot of it felt like go-home angles for bigger matches.

02:39 No AEW World Championship match, and Dark Order as Max and Cole's opponents are probably

02:43 the most egregious examples of that.

02:46 They had a really fun heated match, though, thanks to how over-better than you Bay Bay

02:49 are.

02:50 But the outcome was predictable, and John Silver and Alex Reynolds were nothing more

02:53 than filler fodder.

02:54 That said, Max did a great job selling the neck injury he suffered it all in, having

02:58 to be removed from the match, leaving Cole to go it alone.

03:01 And of course, all built to him making the hot tag save to a huge pop, all while holding

03:05 his neck and winning with the double clothesline.

03:08 Yes, I suppose it's a finisher now.

03:10 MJF and Cole's mixture of fun and seriousness is expertly done, and Max right back to selling

03:15 his neck afterwards with medics.

03:17 And it led to possibly the coolest moment of the night.

03:21 As they were making their way up the ramp in victory, Samoa Joe made his entrance for

03:25 his match and shoved MJF in a mirror image of him shoving Max in NXT all those years

03:31 ago.

03:32 MJF flipped and ran down to the ring for a pull apart brawl, where Joe just looked supremely

03:37 badass.

03:38 And just like that, they've created a world title program I want more than anything.

03:42 This went into Joe defending his ROH TV title against Shane Taylor.

03:46 I love both guys, but Taylor was neither built up enough on TV for this to get over immediately

03:51 with the fans, and only going 6 minutes didn't have enough time to get over properly with

03:56 the live audience.

03:57 This was more of an angle and enhancement match to build Joe for MJF.

04:02 Darby Allin vs Luchasaurus for Christian's TNT title felt a bit more pay-per-view worthy.

04:06 Darby bladed early, and Christian was teasing Nick Wayne throwing in the towel for his mentor.

04:11 Luchasaurus got a definitive victory in the end, though, with two back-to-back tombstones

04:15 and a huge lariat to the back of Allin's head.

04:17 Christian was going to smash Darby's skull in further with a concerto, but the random

04:21 Babyface Brigade made the save.

04:24 Presumably they thought there was another battle royal going on.

04:27 It was weird none of them included Allin's explicit friends Sting and AR Fox.

04:31 I guess Shawn Spears might get a TNT title shot on TV soon.

04:34 The first of about four different matches of the night came next with Powerhouse Hobbs

04:38 vs Miro.

04:40 Which - warning for vegans and vegetarians - contains meat.

04:44 This was a terrific 15 minute hoss fight, which the Chicago crowd elevated by chanting

04:49 'meat' for practically every move for the final 5 minutes.

04:53 Sounds annoying, but it was actually so much fun, especially when it broke out into a 'meat

04:58 forever' chant.

05:00 Both men's meaty styles complemented each other wonderfully.

05:02 But I think that's subversively as much to do with their little guy style ragdoll

05:07 selling.

05:08 One would hit a power move or strike, and the other would take a huge flopping spill

05:12 to the ground or outside, really putting over each other's offence.

05:15 Miro made Hobbs tap in the Game Over, but Powerhouse looked great in defeat.

05:19 They did the Predator handshake at the end, but Hobbs attacked him again, leading to Lana

05:24 CJ Perry to make the save.

05:26 Well, that's not her name yet.

05:28 It looks like going by the tron, her name is Hot N Flexible.

05:32 Hot N Flexible, title of your WWE Divas calendar from 2002.

05:35 Intriguingly, Miro looked disappointed in her and walked off.

05:38 I thought Chris Statlander and Ruby Soho were putting on a really good match until the finish.

05:43 They worked really hard to get the crowd into it, leading to a great Soho nearfall off a

05:47 Sarea distraction.

05:48 Unfortunately, Tony Storm then appeared from under the ring, took Soho's spray paint

05:53 can - which led to Statlander getting a lame victory.

05:56 A decent match, which deserved a much better ending.

05:58 Like Will Ospreay and Chris Jericho the week before, Ricky Starks and Bryan Danielson only

06:02 got one episode of TV to build their match, and somehow, it was one of the best of the

06:07 whole card.

06:08 Their strap match was my match of the night.

06:11 From Danielson's final countdown megastar entrance, his brutal Crimson Mask, and firing

06:16 up from Ricky's strap strikes to Ricky's great heel work, Steamboat Chopping Big Bill

06:20 for getting involved, and an awesome finish that gets over Stark in defeat - Ricky passing

06:26 out in a strap modified Labelle lock.

06:28 It's so good to have Danielson back, and, like Hobb earlier on, and Takeshita and Cassidy

06:33 later, this was an important elevation of AEW's younger stars.

06:37 I'm always grateful to see Shibata wrestling, and Eddie Kingston is one of my favourite

06:41 wrestlers working today.

06:43 Their tag match against Claudio Castagnoli and Hila Yuta, though, left me feeling a bit

06:47 empty.

06:48 Eddie vs Claudio is a forever feud that keeps not getting a proper AEW focus, with the finish

06:52 here being a shock out of nowhere win with a Claudio European uppercut on Kingston.

06:57 It's tough being an Eddie fan sometimes.

06:59 Takeshita was as brilliant as you'd expect, with the extra layer of Don Callis at ringside

07:03 shouting tactics, and which bits of Kenny's broken down body should be targeted.

07:07 This resulted in a top rope blue thunderbomb for Kenny's hernia, a brainbuster on the

07:12 outside for Kenny's neck, and Don trying to stab Omega with a screwdriver for Kenny's

07:16 ultimate weakness - his supple brain - that you can just pierce his skull with and kill

07:22 him.

07:23 Seriously, Don, that's murder.

07:24 The worst of all, though, was right at the beginning, with Takeshita hitting a sick high

07:28 angle backwards suplex that planted Kenny right on top of his skull.

07:33 I don't love this new 'drop me on my head' spot of Omega's.

07:35 It's so New Japan 2018.

07:37 Kenny could never hit the one-winged angel, but Takeshita managed to get me after me after

07:42 me, finally winning with an exposed knee pad variant V-Trigger.

07:46 A fantastic match, yet another singles loss for Kenny without Don in his corner, and a

07:51 great way to further elevate Takeshita.

07:53 The Young Bucks teaming with FTR against Bullet Club Gold wasn't just a super fun eight

07:58 man tag, it also told a terrific story.

08:01 The Bucks were able to work with FTR seamlessly, frequently pairing up for each other's tag

08:05 team finishers - like Matt Jackson and Dax Harwood, or Cash Wheeler and Nick Jackson

08:10 doing the Shatter Machine or BTE Trigger with each other like they're actual brothers

08:14 in some weird alternate dimension.

08:16 And it was all elevated hugely by what we'll call a unique reaction to the Bucks from the

08:21 crowd.

08:22 There were obviously some boos from the CM Punk faithful, but it sounded like the vast

08:25 majority shouted those down to cheer Matt and Nick.

08:28 It made the whole atmosphere really lively in a positive way.

08:31 In a great piece of storytelling, it was Dax and Cash who couldn't hit their own big

08:36 rig together, letting Jey White hit the switchblade for the win.

08:39 Bullet Club Gold were the more complete team overall, further getting them over as a credible

08:44 act.

08:45 Ah, CM Punk screwed over the company again.

08:47 Over to you for the main event, John, we're going to need to put a title on you.

08:50 I'm being glib.

08:51 Even without the Punk controversy, Orange Cassidy vs Jon Moxley for the international

08:55 title is the deserved main event of All Out.

08:58 Half because of OC's epic reign, and the other half because there's no World Championship

09:03 match on the card.

09:05 The circumstance and placement did wonders for both the belt and Cassidy.

09:09 They had the fourth match of the night contender, with Cassidy showing he bleeds red, not orange,

09:14 getting busted open early.

09:16 There was a moment in this that encapsulated OC's character arc over the last four years.

09:21 Near the end, he put his hands in his pockets to hit low effort superkicks on Mox on his

09:25 knees.

09:26 Those comedy bits of old.

09:27 But each strike got more intense, more fiery, until it turned into passionate 'he does

09:33 give a crap' stomps.

09:35 Cassidy was super protected, kicking out of a Death Rider.

09:37 I really wanted him to retain, but the time was right.

09:40 Moxley crossed his chest, hit an even higher angle Death Rider and got the win.

09:45 OC got most of the post-match focus, though, getting a standing ovation from the Chicago

09:50 crowd in defeat.

09:51 A hugely enjoyable pay-per-view, with arguably better in-ring wrestling overall than the

09:56 previous week's All In.

09:58 All Out 2023 is 98%.

10:01 Now go watch my breakdown video of CM Punk, released by AEW.

10:06 Confirmed.

10:07 (upbeat music)

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