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00:00 I'm Oli Davis, this is the WrestleTalk News review of last night's biggest wrestling

00:11 event of all time.

00:13 The NWA's 75th anniversary show night too, you control your narrative, EC3.

00:17 And there was also a little British indie event called All In, which I was in attendance

00:22 for.

00:23 So this is going to be a weird show to review.

00:24 Full disclaimer, my opinions on this show are likely incredibly biased.

00:28 Being there in the audience at Wembley made me metaphorically drunk on the atmosphere.

00:33 And literally drunk on about 8 pints.

00:35 Couldn't hear any commentary, so I might be missing details until I watch this show

00:39 back.

00:40 But I did make all my notes on the world's tiniest notebook.

00:43 Look it's so small.

00:44 It's such a teeny tiny notebook full of notes.

00:48 Or am I massive?

00:51 It's the first one, it's a tiny book.

00:53 Here's my review of AEW All In 2023 while I'm wearing a £65 AEW football top because

01:02 I'm a f***ing merc.

01:04 Exhibit Hurd Tony Khan likes pre-shows, so he booked a pre-show for his pre-show so he

01:08 can pre-pre-show while you show.

01:10 Before Zero Hour even began, there were a couple of in-ring segments for the live crowd

01:14 only, like Simon Miller being a security guard for a Miro contract signing.

01:21 And Team TNA getting beaten up by Big Show, Anthony Ogogo and Grado.

01:24 Thank you for all your hard work promoting AEW in the UK for the last month, Jeff Jarrett.

01:29 Now eat this guitar with your face.

01:31 The first match on the Zero Hour pre-show created a neatly narrative bookend for the

01:35 night.

01:36 The main event, MJF and Adam Cole wrestling Ozzy Open for their Ring of Honor tag team

01:40 titles.

01:41 On paper, it's one of the best uses of a pre-show I think I've ever seen.

01:45 It's very rare anything on the kickoff hour ever actually has consequences on the main

01:49 card.

01:50 Obviously the MJF and Cole storyline was the central purpose of this match, not putting

01:54 on the in-ring banger all four men are capable of.

01:57 It makes sense, as you don't want to risk injuring either Max or Cole ahead of their

02:01 own huge title match.

02:03 I would've preferred Ozzy Open be a bit more protected in the 8 minute defeat.

02:07 The kangaroo kick and double clothesline are brilliantly sports entertaining moves, but

02:11 I didn't think they were actual finishers.

02:13 Ozzy Open should've at least been put away with a boom.

02:16 Nevertheless, the result was great booking, creating intrigue for the main card.

02:19 Especially when Cole walked out on Max celebrating.

02:22 How will they coexist?

02:24 Look, there's a wild Mercedes Monet in the crowd.

02:28 She's got Collision running all over her.

02:30 Which is my polite way of saying she might be potentially difficult to work with.

02:33 Speaking of people on Collision being difficult to work with…

02:36 Mandatory CM Punk backstage fight segway.

02:43 Hook beat Jungle Boy in a fun 10 minute match as the other zero hour contest, which mostly

02:47 took place on both the limo.

02:49 Jungle Boy made his entrance in, and went free in CM Punk's head.

02:52 At one point, Jungle Boy said into the camera "it's real glass, cry me a river" just

02:57 before he was suplexed through the limo windscreen.

02:59 A reference to his reported argument with Punk several weeks ago about using real glass

03:04 in a match.

03:05 I didn't know Jungle Boy had said that until after the show, because I was in Section 513

03:08 and I don't have super hearing.

03:11 But as soon as he went through the glass, I wrote in my notes.

03:17 And Fightful, PWInsider, Wrestling Observer and PWTorture all reporting the two clashed

03:27 backstage afterwards, with some versions alleging they got physical.

03:31 Jungle Boy was then reportedly removed from the arena.

03:34 I'm starting to think, though, that backstage altercations just make Punk stronger.

03:38 Because he then had one of my favourite matches of the night to open the main card.

03:43 Samoa Joe was having the time of his life wrestling CM Punk, his first walkaway spot

03:47 being scouted, but then excellently doing it for a Punk crossbody outside.

03:51 He then busted open Punk hard by swinging him into the commentary desk.

03:54 What's under there, AEW?

03:56 A giant spike?

03:58 So Punk started to lean into the heel reaction he was getting from the crowd.

04:01 Partly because Joe was so awesome and we all wanted to cheer him, and partly because a

04:05 lot of people just want to boo Punk because they're wrong.

04:08 So Punk invoked John Cena, Hulk Hogan and Triple H - three wrestlers who found themselves

04:13 stuck being booed when they were meant to be faces.

04:16 Who's next?

04:17 Cody Rhodes?

04:18 Punk did four of Cena's five moves of doom to then transition into the last of Hogan's

04:22 sequence, hitting a leg drop for an awesome Joe kickout at one.

04:26 But ultimately Punk reversed a top rope superplex into a Pepsi plunge for the win.

04:30 A really great match, and one that I totally didn't mark out for regardless of how much

04:35 everyone now hates Punk.

04:38 I sure hope Punk doesn't run into anyone else he might start backstage fights with.

04:46 Tony Khan, what are you doing?

04:47 Don't put Hangman Page next!

04:48 Put him on later!

04:50 The Golden Elite took on Bullet Club Gold, plus the Keshter next, in what was probably

04:54 the most underwhelming match for me on the card.

04:56 A six man tag is always going to dilute the individual singles feuds that exist within

05:01 them.

05:02 But the goal of a six man tag is to delay singles matches for another time.

05:05 While I loved seeing Jey and Kenny and Kenny and Takeshita, this was more of a very good

05:09 TV main event as opposed to the epic Wembley Stadium expectations.

05:14 Ibushi felt lost in the shuffle yet again, but Takeshita rolling up and pinning Omega

05:18 was a great bit of booking, likely setting up their singles match for All Out.

05:21 The Young Bucks vs FTR 3, however, was my match of the night.

05:25 I was curious how much detail I'd pick up on in a live context, but the storytelling

05:30 of all four men was so expertly done, I could follow along the twists and turns of their

05:34 multi-year feud without commentary and about a mile away from the ring.

05:39 My favourite was Cash Wheeler going up twice for the Springboard 450 that lost them their

05:43 very first encounter, and missing it again for an incredible nearfall.

05:47 The last third of this 20 minute match was phenomenal, with finisher after finisher,

05:52 nearfall after nearfall.

05:53 FTR got the win, but on another night, it could've gone another way.

05:57 This feud is more than just a trilogy, it's a saga, and the Bucks walking out on the handshake

06:02 offer could signal a more concretely heeled turn next.

06:05 Told you the Elite were always the heels in this.

06:07 Keeping the show moving at a quick star power filled pace, the Stadium Stampede anarchy

06:12 was next, with so many insane spots.

06:15 Mox's jumping piledriver on Trent on the steel steps.

06:18 Trent's mum and Chaos member Su driving in the minivan to offer a tray of cookies

06:22 as a weapon.

06:23 Orange Cassidy being zested open hard way with a fork.

06:26 Zested because he's an orange, get it?

06:29 That's Dan Layton's joke.

06:30 He was very proud of it when he made it.

06:32 But the substance was in Mox vs Cassidy, which will surely be our international title match

06:37 at All Out, and in Mox vs Eddie Kingston right at the end.

06:40 Which I'm hoping will be Mox's first international title feud.

06:43 Kingston barged Mox through a table in the corner and spent the closing moments, covered

06:48 in blood, holding his middle finger up in John's face.

06:52 Cassidy won with a Sticky Bandits inspired glass Superman punch on Claudio for the win.

06:56 No, not glass!

06:57 You might be able to go on collision now.

06:59 Rather than have any kind of storyline build going into the women's four way, Sarea and

07:03 Toni Storm forced substance into the actual match.

07:06 The outcasts imploded when Toni accidentally hit Sarea's mum, confusingly also called

07:12 Sarea.

07:13 I think the Knight family only has about three names between them all.

07:15 And Sarea, the page one, not the mum one, snapped on Storm, in a kind of Iron Man Winter

07:20 Soldier Captain America 'I don't care, he killed my mum' kind of way.

07:24 The drama elevated even more when Toni exposed a turnbuckle and was all ready to hit her

07:28 hip attack on Sarea's famously injured neck.

07:31 Ruby Soho ran down to stop her, but Storm slapped her too.

07:35 The outcasts are over.

07:37 Britt Baker had the lockjaw on Shida, but Sarea hit the Rampage at the same time on

07:41 Toni to get the three count to win.

07:43 A fun finish, but one that does underline Shida's month as a transitional reign, purely

07:48 so they didn't have to go straight from then heel friends Storm to Sarea.

07:52 Sarea celebrated with all the pyro and her family afterwards.

07:55 A nice moment, but one that will have to be executed very well in the following weeks

07:59 lest people turn on it.

08:01 Darby Allin and Sting had a very fun double coffin match, beating Swerve Strickland and

08:05 Christian Cage, which only had one coffin.

08:07 I guess I just assumed both opponents had to be in a coffin to win.

08:11 Or at least not have Swerve's braid sticking out the lid.

08:13 If Sting is saved by a baseball bat, Swerve technically did not lose here because of hair.

08:19 Futuresaurus knocked out Nick Wayne and carried him to the back, further fuel for the TNT

08:23 title match at All Out.

08:24 And Darby won with a coffin drop on a coffin.

08:28 With the sun now fully set, the stadium felt far more like a big Anthony Joshua boxing

08:32 fight than a pro wrestling show, particularly with the hometown support of Will Ospreay

08:37 against Chris Jericho.

08:38 I loved this match.

08:40 From Jericho's very well done fozzy entrance - I was scared they'd go full Kid Rock medley,

08:44 but they smartly kept it to just one verse and chorus of Judas - loads of great near

08:48 falls, Sami using the bat on Ospreay during the walls, Ospreay kicking out a Jericho Oscutter

08:53 at one, and maybe my favourite finish of the show - Jericho shouting at Ospreay to finish

08:58 him with a not-so-hidden blade.

09:00 Afterwards, Jericho shoved Sami as he walked away.

09:03 Great match, but the character dynamics of heel Dom being with supremely face Will, and

09:07 Jericho again having tension with Sami, was all over the place.

09:10 The trio's title shockingly changed hands in the sorbet section before the main event,

09:14 with the Badass Billy Gunn getting a nostalgia victory over the House of Black.

09:18 The House of Black deserved a much better run as champions than the one they've had

09:21 since beating the Elite.

09:22 And the main event saw the Brochachos implode, and then not, and then implode again.

09:27 But actually, friendship wins.

09:29 It was a remarkable exploration of what's possible in the cliched, tired, can they coexist

09:34 pro wrestling trope.

09:35 And while this was far more on the sports entertainment spectrum side of things, it

09:39 had all the meaningful attention to detail you'd typically expect from a Mac classic.

09:44 Mac second guessing his own tope after it didn't work on the pre-show.

09:47 Cole tearing his tag team shirt off to escalate the competition.

09:51 Cole hitting a suplex on Max on the steel steps, or a Tombstone Piledriver on the announcer's

09:56 desk, and then immediately seeming concerned for his friend.

09:59 Both men not just having conflict with each other over the world title, but within themselves

10:03 for how far they go to win it.

10:05 Such three-dimensionally fleshed out characters meant you could have outright comedy spots

10:09 in the final third, with both men chucking a chair to each other Eddie Guerrero style.

10:13 And it works, because you're so invested in them.

10:16 I've seen some criticism about the match restart.

10:19 Watching it in the stadium, it worked incredibly, and was wonderfully set up right at the start

10:23 of their feud with the time limit draw.

10:25 Both men did a double down off a double clothesline, more meaning, and got counted out.

10:30 Cole asked for five more minutes, and Max said no, that's not enough time.

10:35 Because there's going to be a winner in effing Wembley.

10:38 Not just one, but two ref bumps later, including one of the more contrived bumps you'll ever

10:42 see from a Panama Sunrise - a move where there is a definite halt in momentum where you could

10:46 have stopped and not piledrive the referee there, Adam.

10:50 Roddy interfered for Cole, but Cole didn't see it.

10:52 Max rolled up Cole to win, as Cole was distracted by his inner bad guy considering using the

10:57 belt to cheat.

10:58 The drama wasn't done there, as Roddy was screaming at Cole to turn on Max in the post

11:03 match, but the Brocharchos hugged it out.

11:05 Because this time in wrestling, they can coexist.

11:09 A masterfully executed main event, a fantastic show.

11:12 If I was watching from home, this would have probably felt way too long.

11:15 But this stuff flies by when you're there live.

11:18 All in, 2023 is 98%.

11:21 Now in celebration of Cole and Max, go watch the 10 Greatest Odd Couple Tag Teams in Wrestling

11:26 History.

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