What is All Elite Wrestling? And who will win the main event? Swerve Strickland or Byran Danielson?
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00:00Hello, and welcome to another round of Wrestling Predictions on the Internet.
00:10Well, my name is Benjamin Jackson, and I'm joined by Alex Nelson to talk through our
00:14predictions for AEW All in London, taking place this Sunday at Wembley Stadium in, well,
00:21London.
00:22And yes, there are tickets still available at Ticketmaster, but how are you doing, Alex?
00:28Given the very, very large amount of matches that are on the card, any you're looking forward
00:33to the most this weekend?
00:35I'm doing well, thanks.
00:37Looking forward to talking some wrestling.
00:39Yeah, it's a big card.
00:41There's a lot of things going on, but in terms of highlights, I think, you know, the main
00:45events, if you can call the main events plural, MJF versus Will Ospreay, Swerve, Bryan Danielson,
00:53just to name a couple, really.
00:54Yeah, I mean, it is a huge, huge card.
00:57I mean, the event starts at around 5, 6.30 at Wembley Stadium, and it's going to go on
01:03until the late hours.
01:05So of course, we could sit here for hours going through every intrinsic detail of the
01:09storylines on offer this year, but we'd probably run as long as the event itself.
01:14Would that be fair to say, Alex?
01:16Yeah, it's going to be a late night on the night.
01:19And I think if we really got into it today, it would also be a late night today.
01:22Yeah.
01:23So a forewarning for those ardent wrestling fans out there, we are going to concentrate
01:29on four of the bigger matches that are taking place on Sunday, ones that casual wrestling
01:34fans like myself might be familiar with regarding the names involved.
01:39So before then, just a little bit of a background regarding AEW, for those aren't familiar with
01:45the company, Alex, could you give a bit of a brief description what AEW is and how it
01:51differs from, say, the WWE?
01:53Yeah, well, AEW is really the first kind of true alternative to the WWE, I'd say.
02:01There's been companies come and go before in the past that have attempted it.
02:04I mean, one called TNA is doing all right for itself at the moment, but it's never really
02:08going to challenge the top dogs of WWE.
02:12AEW formed just a few short years ago, about five years ago now.
02:16It's having a real good go at it.
02:20They did a major Wembley Stadium show last year, hoping to repeat that success again
02:23this year.
02:25In terms of what you can expect to actually see on the screen, it's still American-style
02:29pro wrestling, so lots of flamboyant characters, athleticism, storylines, although I would
02:35say AEW perhaps dials down maybe the cartoonish nature of it, I don't know if that's fair
02:42to say.
02:43Maybe slightly more focused on the sort of sporting aspect, the athleticism, and less
02:47so on the sort of soap opera dramatics.
02:51Yeah, because I remember Paul Triple H Levesque, when he was describing the new kind of take
02:57that the WWE are having, he referred to it as, our TV show is basically a TV program
03:05about sport.
03:07I would imagine then, in regards to AEW, that it is just legitimately a sporting program
03:13itself, rather than a TV show about a sport?
03:17Yeah, I mean of course there's still, you know, it's sillier moments, the kind of campiness
03:23of it all.
03:24It's still professional wrestling at the end of the day, you know, there's only so seriously
03:29you can take it.
03:30But yeah, in comparison to WWE, I would say it's slightly more realistic perhaps, just
03:37yeah, more sort of framed more as a sport than a sort of TV show, yeah.
03:43Definitely, so you wouldn't be seeing any things like a Katie Vick angle or anything
03:48like that?
03:49I don't know, AEW, they have their moments, who knows, but yeah, I think that's sort of
03:56the appeal of the alternativeness of it, is that it's more sort of focused on the in-ring
04:01action.
04:02And for those that want to watch the pay-per-view live, can I call it a pay-per-view?
04:07Because I know the WWE call it a premium live event, we'll call it a pay-per-view to make
04:12it simple.
04:13That will be broadcast on Triller, formerly known as Fight TV, I believe the price is
04:18about £19.50, or if you're a little bit of a cheapskate or you've already got plans for
04:25your bank holiday weekend this August, it is going to be having a on-call presentation
04:30on ITV4 on August the 29th from 9pm till 2am, I know it's a long card, but it's not that
04:39long.
04:40So without further ado, Alex, shall we get kicking into some of the matches on offer?
04:45And I think we would be remiss not to start with what is the main event, the AEW Championship
04:52held by Swerve Strickland against a man that some WWE fans might recall with his Yes Chance,
05:02Bryan Danielson, otherwise known as Daniel Bryan in the WWE.
05:07It's not just a case of the title being on the line, though, is it?
05:11Daniel Bryan has come out and said, Bryan Danielson, sorry, takes a while to get used
05:16to that, do you not think?
05:17Yeah, easily done.
05:18Yeah.
05:19Bryan Danielson's declared that he will put his career on the line this weekend at Wembley
05:27Stadium.
05:28So effectively, it is a championship versus a career, Swerve Strickland versus Bryan Danielson.
05:36Just going into this one, it's been quite the kind of build up since Danielson won the
05:42Owen Hart Tournament, the men's bracket of the Owen Hart Tournament.
05:46So that gave him virtue to challenge.
05:49But now there's just that extra element on the line, isn't there, that he's putting his
05:53career at stake?
05:54Yeah, well, in wrestling terms, certainly he's getting on a bit.
05:59I think he's in his early 40s now and he's got a young family to look after.
06:04It was always known that after this year, he was going to sort of revert to a more part
06:08time schedule, perhaps not wrestle quite as regularly as he once did.
06:14But yeah, a few weeks ago, he came out and he said that, no, he won't even be part time
06:18if he loses this match.
06:19That's going to be it.
06:21And with that sort of real life knowledge playing into it, I think they've done a good
06:27job of making us believe that this could be the final match of Bryan Danielson's career.
06:34It's hard to call.
06:36I mean, it would be a big moment and certainly Wembley Stadium is a place to do it in front
06:41of a hot crowd.
06:44Can I see Swerve Strickland being the person to retire him?
06:49Possibly not.
06:50But then again, I don't really know if Danielson is right to lead the company.
06:56He doesn't need the title.
06:58No.
06:59Swerve is a much younger, you know, someone who needs it a bit more and can be a bit more
07:06active with it, particularly if Danielson is going part time.
07:09So it's interesting.
07:10I'm not 100% sure how to call this one.
07:13Do you think that perhaps the change, because originally I always thought Wembley Stadium,
07:19we're going to talk about this chap in the next video, Will Ospreay, formerly a sort
07:24of Essex, if you know, you know.
07:27I thought that this whole event would be planned around a bit of a crowning, a homecoming for
07:34Will Ospreay.
07:35And yet they had that title match on an episode of Dynamite, evidently Swerve won.
07:41Do you think it's an about change?
07:43Because there might have been some fans out there predicting this result.
07:47Do you think it was maybe a feud that was made or changed on the fly, perhaps, Alex?
07:54Yeah, that again, that just makes me think that maybe Danielson is retiring if, you know,
08:01they're sort of giving him more focus than the, you know, Ospreay's new to the company.
08:05This will be his first Wembley as a full time employee under the AEW banner.
08:10Sure.
08:11So the fact that, you know, the world title match isn't with him and is with Danielson
08:16instead.
08:17Could it be because there's that big moment coming where he, you know, says goodbye to
08:22everyone and that's it?
08:24Possibly.
08:25There's all sorts of real life things playing into it and storyline.
08:28It's hard to work out what's blurred and what's real.
08:31But yeah, there is a phrase that wrestlers hate us fans using, but I have to use it on
08:37this occasion called kayfabe.
08:39It's the idea of keeping within the character, keeping within the storylines.
08:43But AEW's got a bit of a habit kind of blurring those lines between what's real and
08:50what's not.
08:51I'm with you on this one.
08:52It is kind of hard to give a prediction, but if I was, if I had to do it and of course
09:01we have to do it, otherwise why else would people be watching us?
09:05If last All In in London was say the first Star Wars in the trilogy, A New Hope, maybe
09:16this time round we're going to the Empire Strikes Back and we get a kind of dour ending
09:20for Wembley.
09:21I mean, with all respects to Brian, what better place could you retire than in front of a
09:31sold out Wembley Stadium and doing the arbitrary, leaving your boots in the middle of the ring
09:36to a sold out, you know, a bunch of people in London.
09:40So if he is going to go out and I think predicting how I'm predicting, you know, the match with
09:48Will Ospreay and MGF, which we're going to go to, I hate to say it, Alex, I think this
09:53might be the end of the American Dragon.
09:56I think if I had to, if I had to put a name down and say who's going to win, I think yes,
10:02Werv could, could retire Danielson.
10:06I don't know if I want him to, I mean, I don't want him to, I love Danielson, but in terms
10:10of if he's the right person to again, not so sure, but yeah, you do have to remember
10:15that Danielson has retired before, so resting retirement don't often stick.
10:20So we'll see.
10:21And if anybody wants to see if what Alex has said is real, all I have to say is Google
10:27Terry Funk, God rest his soul.
10:30That man retired more times than I think he came back.
10:33So is it a swerve victory?
10:38We're both kind of agreeing on with this prediction.
10:40Yeah, I think, I don't like it, but I'm going to have to go with swerve.
10:45All right, then.
10:46So you heard it here.
10:47We are predicting Daniel Bryan, Bryan Danielson.
10:51One day I'll remember that name correctly.
10:54Farewell to the American Dragon, Swerve Strickland, keeps on keeping on.
11:00So that is AEW All in London taking place at Wembley Stadium on August 25th.
11:09My day, it's been a long, long week, hasn't it?
11:12Yes.
11:13August 25th.
11:14We are going to be dropping some links in the copy where you've seen this video regarding
11:18how to get tickets through Ticketmaster.
11:20There are tickets still on sale.
11:22Do your bit, support wrestling that comes over here to England.
11:27And even if you're a WWE fan, get a ticket because the more chances an audience turns
11:32up to see a wrestling show happening in London, the way I see it, the more chance we might
11:37end up getting a WrestleMania or something like that in the near future.
11:40So I've been Benjamin.
11:42Say goodbye, Alex.
11:43I've been Alex.