All In was so much better than the match quality. This felt like a huge show. This felt like WrestleMania. This felt like possibly the biggest or at least one of the few biggest shows in AEW history.
- This show had a great opening promo for one of the few times to get you pumped for what was to come. The promos and the music were great on this show.
- For only around 25k fans they made it look awesome on tv.
- Opening match was a snoozefest. This was by far shortest match and it was still 15 minutes.
- MJF thankfully won the Gauntlet. Match could have been essentially the same in half the time.
- Adam Cole segment was absolutely heartbreaking.
- Dustin Rhodes winning was the shock of the night. People didn't even cheer because they were so stunned.
-Ospreay and Swerve vs The Young Bucks was the Dave Meltzer special. Ok match that type of crowd will love. Non stop video game wrestling and everyone in the ring the entire match. Why every Bucks match isn't a Tornado tag match I have no idea.
- Women's gauntlet was pretty good. It would have made more sense Athena winning if Mercedes won the women's title.
- 3 Way tag match was way too long. What ultimately mattered and was great was everything after the match.
- Women's title match was the match of the night. One of the best matches of the year. For all the talk of Mercedes Mone's creative control, the match that mattered she lost. As per usual. What was the point of her winning a million matches in a row for well over a year to ultimately lose to the most over women in the company that didn't need the win? Mone could have and should have lost multiple times over the last 15 months and this match could have gone the exact same way and meant exactly the same. Mercedes still winless in the top 10 biggest matches of her career. Mercedes should have won this and whomever she would have lost to could have got over huge. Instead it will be Mercedes and Toni and no one else. No different than it's been.
- Omega vs the most tired man in wrestling was underwhelming. I don't know if in 30 years of watching wrestling I've ever seen during a regular match a ref pulled out of the ring while counting and stomped on not be called a dq. Then O'Sleepy pins Omega clean in the middle 1 2 3.
- I absolutely hate Jon Moxley. I think if you take all aspects of the wrestling business into account he has been by far the worst wrestler in the world this decade. This match started off horrible with all the typical Moxley bs. It got great and fun to watch once all the interference started. Then they somehow topped one of the worst non finishes I've ever seen from their last match with the stomp to the cinder block then Paradigm shift kick out 20 minutes in. 30 minutes into this match Hangman gets curb stomped and Paradigm shift both times on to a bed of nails. 30+ minutes into the match! That isn't the finish. Thankfully Moxley lost but that non finish was as dumb as any I've ever seen.
- 6 hours for a 9 match show is beyond words ridiculous. This could have been 1 1/2 hours shorter and been the exact same show. On runtime, this beats the longest Mania's people used to complain about but those shows had 5-6 more matches on them.
- The returns, announcing, most entrances, music, most things before and after the matches, and everything else outside of the ring was overall excellent.
- All In was overall a fun show to watch. It was so much better than the overall match quality. Only 2 of the matches really stood out. This is why you have to have sports entertainment in wrestling. Match quality wise AEW has had countless better PPVs than this one. Yet this show just felt bigger than most. NXT Takeovers from 2015-2020 were the perfect blend of sports entertainment and wrestling. But All In Texas showed why great story and emotion/sports entertainment will always top just great in ring wrestling that no one is invested in.
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