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0:00 - All in 2024 Review
0:26 - Pre-Show
2:13 - The Patriarchy vs. Bang Bang Gang vs. House of Black vs. Pac & Blackpool Combat Club
3:23 - Toni Storm vs. Mariah May
4:18 - Chris Jericho vs. Hook
5:05 - The Young Bucks vs. FTR vs. The Acclaimed
6:20 - Casino Gauntlet
8:19 - MJF vs. Will Ospreay
9:38 - Mercedes Moné vs. Britt Baker
10:10 - Jack Perry vs. Darby Allin
10:41 - Swerve Strickland vs. Bryan Danielson
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0:00 - All in 2024 Review
0:26 - Pre-Show
2:13 - The Patriarchy vs. Bang Bang Gang vs. House of Black vs. Pac & Blackpool Combat Club
3:23 - Toni Storm vs. Mariah May
4:18 - Chris Jericho vs. Hook
5:05 - The Young Bucks vs. FTR vs. The Acclaimed
6:20 - Casino Gauntlet
8:19 - MJF vs. Will Ospreay
9:38 - Mercedes Moné vs. Britt Baker
10:10 - Jack Perry vs. Darby Allin
10:41 - Swerve Strickland vs. Bryan Danielson
Ricochet To AEW Confirmed! Sting RETURN! Bryan Danielson Wins! AEW All In 2024 Review | WrestleTalk
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00:00Jamie Hayter came back, Ricochet debuted, Bryan Danielson won the AEW World Championship
00:07even if he didn't want to, and Nigel McGuinness returned to the ring, making this a 20 star
00:14show.
00:15I'm Oli Davis, I was there, and this is my heavily biased review of AEW All In 2024
00:22in about 10 minutes.
00:27The first match of the pre-show was the let's get everyone on the card but not do a battle
00:30royals 16 man tag, where we learned probably not even 16 Lio Rushes could move one Satnam
00:36Singh, the side with the most British people on one.
00:39Willow Nightingale and Tomohiro Ishii then beat Chris Statlander and Stokely Hathaway
00:43in a fun intergender tag, meaning Willow gets to choose hers and Statlander's all out
00:47stipulation.
00:48The biggest spots, however, were between Ishii and Stokely, with Stokely hitting a spine
00:52buster after Chris had worked Ishii over, for Ishii to stand right up like it was nothing.
00:57Martha Hart then came out, and we booed her because she said she's from Canada.
01:01And then AEW announced they'll keep the UK August bank holiday tradition going just
01:05with Forbidden Door 2025 in, as yet to be determined, London location.
01:10I think that's a very smart idea, likely letting AEW transition to a smaller venue
01:15without losing too much face, where, in theory, you're able to attract more fans because
01:19it's of multiple promotions.
01:21Fingers crossed for Kenny Omega vs Okada 5.
01:24The final match of the pre-show saw Dustin Rhodes and all his various tag team partners
01:28beat the Undisputed Kingdom and Cage of Agony, with Kevin Von Erich leading THE CLAW CHARGE
01:34in the post-match angle.
01:35But there was one more angle to come.
01:37Sarea and Harley Cameron came down with an entourage of British indie wrestlers, where
01:42Sarea complained she wasn't booked for anything on the show.
01:45She's the best women's wrestler in this country, which all built to Jamie Hater returning
01:52on the pre-show… a gazillion hours away from the Britt Baker match.
01:56It's great that Hater returned as she's been gone for so long, but the booking of
02:00her return felt a bit off, with the pre-show placement making her not feel as special,
02:04and furthering speculation that Baker has fallen out backstage with her too.
02:08But that's the only backstage drama we're talking about in this year's All In.
02:12Everything else is fine.
02:14The actual main card of All In opened on the four-way trios match between champions the
02:18Patriarchy against the Bang Bang Gang, House of Black and the Packpool Combat Club.
02:22Or the, er, Blackpool Compac Club.
02:25Or the Blackpool Lucha Bros are leaving for WWE Club.
02:28This was advertised as a London Ladder match.
02:30I want my money back, because I know London ladders only have one side of rungs.
02:35I only saw American two-sided ladders coming in here, taking our ladders jobs.
02:40It also appears London was all out of medium-sized ladders, as the only two heights they used
02:44in this match were normal or f***ing big.
02:47With the entrances taking place on the pre-show, this match started as soon as the main card
02:51opened, where Christian kindly ran to the back to not overshadow his two sons wrestling
02:56what a dad.
02:57While Brodie King was the most over-wrestler, as usual, the Patriarchy drama was the match's
03:01main theme, with Killswitch saving Shayna Wayner twice, once where Juice Robinson almost
03:06put her through a table outside.
03:08But despite all of Killswitch's good work, Christian stopped him from climbing the ladder
03:12to unhook the belts.
03:14He wanted that moment for himself.
03:16Killswitch tried to help him up Rhino at WrestleMania style, but PAC got there first to get a feel-good
03:21British person pop for the opener.
03:23So an hour and a bit into this overall event, pre-show included, we had already seen 42
03:29wrestlers compete.
03:30The whole card had 72 actual in-ring wrestlers, which is six more than this year's Royal
03:35Rumble, and that had two 30-person matches on it.
03:39I was ready, by this point, for some straight singles action.
03:42So Toni Storm defending her women's title against Mariah May felt gloriously pared back.
03:47Two wrestlers over a championship who hate each other.
03:51Both worked terrifically together, with May not just taking out Luthor on the outside,
03:55but also slapping her own mum in the front row.
03:59Toni hit a Storm Zero on the steel steps, busting open May, getting bloody revenge for
04:03the initial heel turn angle.
04:05Luthor's single white gloved hand stopped May from grabbing the title belt to cheat
04:09later on, brilliantly giving her the middle finger.
04:11But Toni couldn't bring herself to literally go heel on May and hit her with the shoe.
04:16Mariah hit two running knees to win.
04:18I used Jericho's live fozzy performance entrance to get another pint, so I can't
04:22comment on that.
04:23He was defending the FDW Championship against Hook, where if Hook lost, he wouldn't get
04:27to feud with Jericho again.
04:30You making me want Hook to lose here, Toni.
04:32This was effectively a three-on-one handicap match, with the learning tree constantly interfering.
04:36Even though Hook's mate Shebata was in a match about half an hour ago, Jericho got
04:40loads of weapons, including a cricket bat and balls.
04:43The most over-wrestler of the week Big Bill went through a barbed wire table, and Taz
04:47got up from commentary to lock the Taz mission on Brian Keith, while Hook tapped out Jericho
04:52in the red run.
04:55Hook has won back the FDW Championship, I would now just retire this belt so they can
04:59book him like he was back in January, rather than always falling back on the Taz title
05:04stuff as a crutch.
05:05Yes, the acclaimed might have gotten their own oooh scissor me daddy karaoke entrance
05:11and joked about FTR looking like the EDL, but the Young Bucks came out dressed as Sgt.
05:16Pepper era Beatles with these!
05:30FTR and the Bucks working together is always fantastic.
05:45Anthony Bones' hot tags are excellent, and even sixth best wrestler in this match
05:49Max Caster got several spots to shine, hitting an EVP trigger with Matt onto Dax, and then
05:54hitting a Shatter Machine on Matt with Cash.
05:57Daddy Ask got involved for an acclaimed near fall, but it was the Bucks using the titles
06:01on Dax, then an EVP trigger, who won.
06:04At only 12 minutes, this was nowhere near the level of last year's straight Bucks
06:07vs FTR match, and it's symptomatic of AEW's uninspired tag division.
06:12Thankfully that is set to change, as the post-match angle saw England's own Grizzled
06:16Young Veterans return, staring down the Bucks, and then beating up FTR.
06:20I had been enjoying myself up until this point, but I didn't think the show had been anything
06:24particularly special.
06:26That changed from the Casino Gauntlet, making for an all-time second half of the pay-per-view.
06:31Orange Cassidy with Mr Bean entrance was in first, as we knew he would be.
06:35And then the penny dropped for who the second entrant was, Okada.
06:40One guy whose gimmick is he's low effort in the ring, and another guy whose criticism
06:44is that he's been low effort in the ring.
06:46It was a perfect opening that then hopped on the train to Margate to a little place
06:50called Dreamland.
06:52Because out at No. 3 was one of my favourite wrestlers of all time, whose series of matches
06:57with Bryan Danielson first introduced me to Ring of Honor, who had retired in 2011 and
07:03hadn't wrestled since…
07:07Desmond Wolfe!
07:09I even got to see him hit his Tower of London finisher, which, if you've not seen it before,
07:14is an RKO from outta.
07:16A very specific set-up on the turnbuckles.
07:18Then two entrants later came Zack Sabre Jr, two British wrestling legends in the ring
07:25at the same time.
07:26I honestly couldn't believe what I was seeing, and I will treasure that moment forever.
07:29Then the awesomeness kept coming.
07:31Hangman Page at No. 8, Jeff Jarrett at No. 9, Ricochet making his AEW debut at 10, Christian
07:38brilliantly entering at 11 because he lost his title earlier that night to just be taken
07:43out right away by Ricochet, then Luchasaurus, crucially not Kill Switch, coming in last
07:48at No. 11.
07:49Finally, they're going to pay off the Luchasaurus storyline we've been waiting almost a year
07:54for.
07:55Oh no, they're not.
07:56They just had him help Christian win.
07:58While Christian holding a Money in the Bank style title shot is very fun for his character,
08:02this was one of the least inspiring winners for me.
08:05He fought for the title on the pay-per-view relatively recently.
08:08He's already done the Kill Switch-earned cash-in gimmick last year.
08:11And most frustratingly of all, they still haven't pulled the trigger on Luchasaurus
08:16standing up for himself.
08:17I'm ready for that story to be done now.
08:19MJF vs Will Ospreay felt like the main event of the show once their entrances were over.
08:23A title, family honour, a blood feud, US and UK international relations, it was all on
08:29the line.
08:30But the real match turned out to be Will Ospreay vs AEW staff.
08:35After a fantastic sequence of apron-based offence, including Max falling back to dodge
08:39an Ozcutter and hitting a Panama Sunrise on the ring apron, Will managed to hit the Ozcutter
08:44and went for a hidden blade.
08:45But Max ducked, and Will killed a camera guy instead.
08:49Who had a pretty jazzy taste in underwear and socks.
08:52It was apparently British wrestler Chuck Mambo.
08:54Then Will accidentally took the referee out as well, letting MJF hit a low blow and then
08:58get out his diamond ring.
09:00But he was stopped by a masked man who turned out to be Daniel Garcia, making Red Death
09:05look awesome in his return and immediately setting up a feud with Max.
09:09Ospreay had tried multiple hidden blades, Ozcutters, Stormbreakers, but there was only
09:14ever one move that could beat Max.
09:17MJF is amongst the best, so Will needed a killshot worthy of Danielson, of Omega.
09:23It meant none of Ospreay's near falls were truly believable until he had gone for the
09:26Tiger Driver.
09:27But that bolstered the drama, it didn't undermine it, making the moment he actually
09:31hit it an awesome payoff.
09:33Not Adam Pearce, Christopher Daniels then handed Ospreay the International Championship.
09:38Mercedes Monáe and Britt Baker weren't able to follow the gauntlet and international
09:41double bill, and the crowd energy waned a bit almost four hours into the wrestling.
09:45Not even Monáe's royal entrance with little cute corgis could get the crowd that loud.
09:50The loudest we got was Britt doing the Eddie Guerrero fake weapon attack spot, leading
09:53to Camille getting ejected from ringside.
09:56But Eddie references are Monáe's thing.
09:58And the finish came shortly after, with Mercedes escaping the lockjaw to hit her gory looking
10:02special to win.
10:03She needs a better finish.
10:04Monáe winning very clean, with Camille being ejected, really felt like a line being drawn
10:09underneath Britt.
10:10Jack Perry and Darby Allin, however, worked out the best way to reignite the 50,000 strong
10:15AEW crowd.
10:16Make CM Punk references.
10:18Perry poured real glass out over the ring, leading to deafening Crimea River chants on
10:23the anniversary of that controversial spot.
10:26He taped up Darby's wrists, put him in a body bag and hit a running knee on him in
10:30the coffin to win very strongly.
10:32But this was more about the post-match angle, when the Bucks came down to set the coffin
10:36on fire, but Stiiiiiing returned to make the save.
10:41I've never been part of the kind of thing that happened next.
10:43Living in England, it was always the stuff I would watch from an ocean away, ECW One
10:47Night Stand.
10:49AEW All In.
10:50The Yes chants on Bourbon Street following WrestleMania 30.
10:53I always thought stadium wrestling wasn't for me.
10:56I like smaller shows where the atmosphere is more contained.
10:59But maybe I'd never seen the right kind of match.
11:01Because Bryan Danielson vs Swerve Strickland title vs Korea was the highest form of stadium
11:08performance I've ever seen.
11:10And I've seen Katy Perry.
11:12Danielson's final countdown entrance, complete with Korea retrospective video package, had
11:16Luke crying next to me.
11:17I lost my voice singing.
11:19Swerve's entrance was easily the coolest wrestling entrance I'd ever experienced.
11:24The presentation of both men on this night made it feel historic in a way only the big
11:28world title boxing matches do.
11:30The Swerve's house chants were blowing the open air roof off Wembley Stadium, so they
11:34made sure to cement him as a heel early on, with Nana putting the ringbell down for Swerve
11:38to hit a Death Valley Driver onto it on the apron, busting Danielson open, then Strickland
11:43taking Bryan over to where Brie and his kids were to kick him in the face while Nana was
11:47dancing.
11:48Yeah, that'll turn you heel pretty quick.
11:51Danielson would keep desperately reaching out to that corner of the ring where his family
11:55were, hanging on to life as Swerve was draining it from him.
11:58A vertebraker with medics running in, a Swerve stomp, house call, house call, a third house
12:04call, near fall.
12:06Swerve started hitting the no kicks, but each one fired Danielson up as he screamed at his
12:11family how much he loves them.
12:13Nobody can control the emotion of a crowd the way Danielson can, and he had every single
12:18one of us on his every yes.
12:20Hangman Page briefly appeared to knock out Prince Nana, just enough to distract Swerve
12:24before being dragged away by security, even the odds by taking out Nana, and was justified
12:29from the ringbell spot earlier on.
12:31It gave Danielson enough time to hit a knee, then another knee, then the LaBelle Lock to
12:36tap out Swerve to win.
12:38You will be AEW World Champion, Bryan.
12:41You will be, and you will goddamn enjoy it.
12:43The Blackpool Combat Club with Jon Paxley came down to celebrate, all holding their
12:47own belts, and helped Bryan's family into the ring, where his son seemed more interested
12:51in playing in the confetti than hugging his dad, who just put on one of the greatest matches
12:55I'd ever see.
12:56It's been a mad month for us here.
12:58It started with a bit of confetti getting in my beer, then doing shows with MJF, then
13:03Meltzer and Alvarez coming into the studio.
13:05Three days of wrestling shows, which was like a mini lads holiday for me, Luke, Tempest,
13:10Pete and Dan, meeting so many wonderful people over the weekend, and then the high emotion
13:15of Danielson's win.
13:16Thank you all, everyone who came to see us, and AEW.
13:19One of the best few days of my life.
13:21That confetti from MJF disintegrated into my beer, but I was able to save a piece of
13:26confetti from Danielson's title win.
13:35My very biased All In 2024 score is 101% for Danielson and McGuinness.
13:41Overall, I give the show 90%.
13:43It was also a very special anniversary of the passing of Bray Wyatt over the weekend,
13:48so please watch our video essay tribute to his genius career.
13:52Here's a clip.
13:54Across multiple characters, Bray told us that he was this charismatic cult leader, an unstoppable
13:59monster, a sympathetic but unhinged victim of some past trauma, and audiences bought
14:05into that despite the booking, despite the maggots, despite the vast amounts of mystery
14:10in a medium that thrives on the obvious.
14:13Bray swept us up in the palm of his hands, and even now we are still following the breadcrumb
14:18trail and finding out how deep the rabbit hole can go.
14:22This is the legacy of Bray Wyatt.
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