My All Out thoughts, will catch up on the thread later:
Private party rule
The Dino team is so fun. Daniels' old man floss fucking killed me. LUCHASAURUS
WTF why is this so early? I like that they've added records to the namebars, v cool touch. Another very bad theme for PAC. Fucking hell that's twice in this match they've clattered the barricade, move them back ffs. Either I was enjoying this match too much I didn't notice, or they stopped doing time announcments, just be consistent! Loved this, I'd at least put it on a par with Okada/Suzuki, if not above just cause it was so much more gogogo. Kenny has his mojo back. A+
JR: [on stapling a cigarrette] "That's classic catch-as-catch can wrestling" Well done JR, finally got a good joke in, I laughed out loud at that one
JR DID A SWEAR. "I've seen a brainbuster to the chair before and that was one of em" fucking what jim
I don't know how this match turned into a JR review, but I'm loving the match. A good old garbage plunder, fun for everyone. JESUS CHRIST JOEY that moonsault to nothing YEAHHHHH THE TACK SKATEBOARD OH DARBY HAS THE BARREL YES YES YES BARRELL COFFIN DROP THIS RULES AEW hardcore division stays winning, needs the upgrade to a deathmatch division tho, shame TNT are COWARDS
I like the Dark Order act and the Smash Bros are a great team, but the crowd seems like actively silent, I don't know the problem beyond just people still don't know who they are. They always seem to *kind of* get the crowd a little by the end but that doesn't stick from crowd to crowd. Maybe once we're a few weeks into TV.
Crowd getting a little tired, but Shida/Riho doing their best to wake them up. JR stop complaining about wrestlers and referees doing the wrong thing fucks sake. This was really fun, even with the crowd on mute. Nyla/Riho should be a fun dynamic, and you've got the previous Riho win over Nyla. Should put the belt on Shida tho
A MIKEY RUKUS JOINT
STAR TREK DDP HOLY SHIT. MJF doing the Ready to Rumble "diamond upside down is a pussy" spot to DDP my god
Cody just eating the belt to the neck and booting the shit out of Spears was hype. The Arn pop was nuts, still a p good spinebuster. Why is Tully just wandering off? I'd have to rewatch to know if I'd rank this last or above Aldis in the "Cody Big Match" canon, but that's not a bad thing, this was a worthy edition of that.
THE LADDER SLINGBLADE. THE THROUGH THE LADDER DESTROYER. YOO THE TOP OF THE LADDER DESTROYER. I didn't enjoy the last one of these matches, it was just very uninteresting to me. Maybe I just needed to have a mental break and write one of these matches off to come back fresher, maybe it's the addition of the ladders. This is doing it for me though. Fuck that double table bump from Nick was disgusting OH GOD Matt fell on the ladder
Glad LAX went for AEW in the end
Does that mean Kong vs Kong at Full Gear?
Good for Aubrey reffing the main.
A FUCKING HORSE
lmao at this fan when Jericho takes the cover off the barricade "EXPOSE IT! EXPOOOSE IT" I liked how they turned it around when Jericho got bust open to Hangman doing pretty much exactly what Jericho would have done, and just precision work over the eye after the early going of Jericho working his one body part. The finishing stretch was excellent. JUDAS EFFECT looking good again (I remain the only person on this bandwagon). This wasn't a classic by any stretch, and not a bad match by the same stretch. My least favourite Jericho match of this run, but it more than held my attention. That's probably not what you want for your first title match, but you have a champion now to build on top of, let's see how they do with an actual foundation going forward.
My fave five so far from this weekend (Royal Quest + AEW):
1. PAC/Omega
2. Suzuki/Okada
3. Bucks/Lucha Bros
4. THE CRACKER BARREL CLASH
5. Riho/Shida
On to Takeover!