AEW - All Elite Wrestling (*Spoilers for Latest Show*)

Careful now.....Best to just not think about things like that, it's one of the "gateway thoughts" that eventually lead to "harder thoughts" like "why aren't they able to sell for more than six seconds?" or "why are mox and Eddie Kingston the only ones who try to make fans think they are there for fights instead of (insert number here) star matches?"...... Slippery slope

I mean if you want to ignore any suspension of disbelief then you might as well question how exactly an Irish Whip is supposed to work 😂

I can say that I have genuinely Irish whipped someone in a mosh pit before to great effect 😂. I even have footage of it somewhere.

"I'm gonna shatter your dreams" - chef's kiss!

Definitely not. I mean comparing it to last year would be unfair but in general All Out this year has had a bad build.

I feel like AEW in general has lost some steam. It just doesn't feel as exciting as it once was and there's a lot of things to point to but it also feels like more people are having that realisation lately. I have AEW Plus till January and honestly, if you asked me now if I was gonna re-up next year, probably not. Plenty of time to turn the tide but I wonder if the honeymoon period is over.

I thought people would say this because I know initially they said that for the summer they were missing 3 big names in Punk, Bryan and MJF but Danielson has been back over a month. Punk has been back nearly 3 weeks now and MJF is out for storyline reasons, we assume. That's plenty of time to build something.

Even that aside, injuries happen, AEW has a massive roster right now part of the benefit to that is they build around injuries, it would be an excuse for a card without star power but not an excuse for lack of a build to a PPV.

I know Tony Khan was fighting back weeks ago that the build for All Out was fine and that it would accelerate closer to the time but it seems so thrown together. We still don't know the main event a week out.

I've said the build to some previous PPVs haven't been great and the show still was but wrestling in the ring has never been AEW's problem but lately I do think their storytelling has fallen off quite a bit.

Yeah I used to watch Dynamite and Rampage every single week without fail. But now for various reasons I've missed a few lately and I don't feel a burning need to catch up. They have the roster to turn it around but it feels like it's missing a spark at the moment.

All Out will be another cinema job for me since it was fun last time. I'm definitely way more cooled off on it though for a lot of the same reasons mentioned by others. There are so many tropes now that constantly get repeated each week it's feeling stale. I would love more character development apart from the backstage interviews and it's frustrating since they get it so right when they do it for the Road To shows. It's not a ratings winner which is why they don't do it too much anymore but even a little for select people would benefit it massively.

Also for the figure collectors, Smyths won't be carrying them anymore going forward and are starting to discount them a bit now.

Jazwares the company that makes them have stated they're going online only market for the UK. They haven't sold too well here that I can see, shelves are full of them and constantly marked down. I can't imagine there are too many children here watching it over WWE to be honest. Speaking of which, the new Bret and British Bulldog figures are amazing, based on their Summerslam 1992 match. Scalpers have the figure game in the States ruined so it was nice to get the AEW ones handy enough here. Will have to hit the Targets at dawn to have any luck!

Ya, like other said, not hugely feeling All Out this year. I'll still buy it most likely as the matches will most likely be excellent but storywise, it isn't really there for a good bit of them.

The only two decent stories here built in AEW are Hobbs Vs Stark and Christian Cage Vs Jungle Boy. The others have either gone too long that they're now just boring(BCC Vs JAS, Jade Vs Athena) or have no real build. Another exception is what I guess is the trios final but that's mainly built off BTE rather than AEW.

I know it's not the done thing on Boards to say anything positive about the women's division in AEW but Sakura/Shida was really good. No surprise with who was in the ring, TK should go back to focusing more on the joshis.

It still blows my mind to hear WAVE being mentioned on AEW, let alone seeing the Regina being defended. Very cool, Elevation is definitely one for the nerds!

Also loving Daddy Magic on commentary!

I think that's a bit unfair.

People say negative stuff about the lack of female representation outside of the Youtube shows, which is accurate. Considering both of those women have been on Dark or Elevation so much more than Rampage or Dynamite in recent months it seems like an okay gripe, especially cosidering their match was good, why is it not being showcased on a bigger stage than Youtube?

I did see the spot where Shida tore her gear open to get chopped, that was awesome. Would love more Shida/Joshis on TV.

In other news, some people are speculating that there is a streaming deal as AEW have pulled DVDs from their site. Although it could be nothing, considering they may just not have been selling, this is probably the first most people have heard about AEW PPV DVDs 😂. I would also assume you wouldn't be able to buy PPVs on replay if a deal was looming.