AEW All Out 2020

AEW has delivered great PPVs, but there's something off about this one. The build has been spotty and the last Dynamite was one of the worst shows in company history period. The pre-show matches aren't much and we start off with the Tooth and Nail match, which is just a sloppy pre-taped match. They brawl around the office and use plunger with a face mask KOing Britt and giving Swole the win. Reba stole the show here taking a beating and being a goofball. 

Bucks and Jurassic Express are out for what would have been a better choice for an opener. I love the Bucks just being assholes throughout this, including attacking Marko after he goes and pulls Nick off the apron. Locomotion northern lights into an over the top suplex doesn't go smoothly, but Luchasaurus lands a nice Chokeslam on Nick. Big dive from Vibora to the pile and the BTE trigger takes out Jungle Jack.

Casino battle royal was better than the first one, but not as good as the All In battle royal 2 years ago. I think this match is better served on a pre-show, especially with the mystery entrant. Sydal was the mystery guy and came in with an SSP that he slipped on and thankfully just landed on the back of his head and back. Kingston win is teased, but Lance choke tosses him onto the pile to win it. Best part of this was Darby taking out guys but being taken out with a running bodybag powerbomb WITH TAGS to the ramp.

The broken rules match is a last man standing match in the stadium. Sammy tries to run Matt over with a golf cart, but misses. Matt DDTs him and they fight on a scissor lift. Sammy spears him off it through a "merch table" and Matt's head smashes on the concrete. He's out and it's not the finish, so Aubrey's not counting. Matt tries to stand and Sammy helps him up...which maybe you don't do during this to end the count and then Matt just stumbles even with Sammy holding him up. Great, just have him risk another concussion there. They tease a finish with Doc Sampson, but Matt I guess convinces him to let it go on and it does and they climb a lighting truss because yeah, that's a thing Matt should do and a punch sends Sammy through a "stage" that couldn't hold an action figure up and he wins it.

Women's title is up. Double legdrop is met with a stretch muffler by Shida! Falcon arrow barely gets 1 for Shida! Tonashi knee ends it for Shida. Great showing for Rosa, and a perfect follow-up to the clusterfuck before it. Kip and Penelope talk about getting married on AEW Dynamite and they need a bachelor party and a best man that he'll reveal as THE BEST MAN on Wednesday. Dark Order vs. Cody's Crew tag match is up. I like Colt just being wacky Colt in this cult. 

Nice work with Brodie just pummeling dudes. Brandi pump kicks Anny Jay out of the ring. Sky TKOs Stu and Uno saves. Radio Silence hits and a second rope one does too, but no cover which JR buries him for. Brodie hits him with a powebromb off of it and QT and Colt go at it and Colt misses the corner big apple and QT hits a dive and the Smash Bros hit the lunging powerbomb before a black hole slam hits for Brodie and Colt superfly dives onto QT for 2. 

Dustin and Brodie go at it and slug it out before Brodie takes him out with discus lariat and Colt goes up and misses a moonsault. Dustin gets a schoolboy and wins it! COLT HAS DRAWN THE IRE OF BRODIE LEE. I don't know what this is going to lead to, but it's going to be great. Brodie is pissed at Colt and yells at him with Uno offering Colt a hand. CHARACTER WORK between Colt and Uno - I love it. TONY AND DUSTIN CHATTING. I love it. Dustin says they did this all for Cody and TONY KHAN TELLS US that Dustin faces Brodie Lee for the TNT Title on Dynamite. This is tremendous stuff. Dustin wants it to prove he can put gold around his waist again. 

TAG TITLE TIME with FTR and Tully out in red and white looking like the Brainbusters. Tully's even out in his ostrich shoes from when he was in the Horsemen. Page is out in new long cowboy tights to show some unity with Kenny. Page atomic drops Dax into a Cash tag and Dax reverse bearhugs Page for a bit. HANGMAN ROLLS OFF THE APRON AND GETS A LARIAT ON DAX! POWERPLEX GETS 2 FOR FTR. Page prevents the Goodnight Express, but Dax lands a brainbuster to Kenny before Page hits a basement lariat. REVERSE RANA FROM KENNY TO CASH! Tiger Driver '98 hits for 2! 

APRON DRAGON SCREW BY Dax and then another into the ring before locking on a trailer hitch using the ropes. Nice little story being told here of Kenny being a ball hog throughout this. Kenny shoves Dax off but in doing so, he knocks Page off the apron. SLINGSHOT CLOTHESLINE TO DAX and Page catches Cash and hits the fallaway slam and then slingshots onto Dax on the floor. Tully moves his guys out of the path of a moonsault off the top, so Page standing swantons onto them! 

DOUBLE DIVING HEADBUTTS FROM FTR ala the Bulldogs gets 2. Alley oop bulldog from FTR to Kenny on the floor. Great stuff here! BLOCKBUSTER SUPLEX BY PAGE OFF THE TOP GETS 2. Chopblock to Kenny and the Mind Breaker hits for 2! Another spike piledriver ends it and FTR wins the gold. They put a generic beer near Page and Kenny grabs a wooden chair. They put a generic beer near Page and Kenny grabs a wooden chair and teased attacking Page but Page collapses and Omega doesn't catch him and then tosses a cheap beer down and JR says that's a waste of a 25 cent beer. Kenny walks backstage and talks shit about Page before telling the Bucks to leave with him. They go and it feels like Kenny's leading them into an ambush. He wants to go into his slick black stretch SUV and they opt to not leave with him. 

It's time for mimosa mayhem and Jericho is with Alex Marvez in his crazy jacket. Tony says that Doc Sampson cleared Matt DURING THE MATCH. We get a walk and brawl near the pit and Jericho crashes him through a nearby bubbly table. Jericho pushes OC's face into the mimosa. Jericho doing TNA Jeff Jarrett specials is so much worse than literally every other version of Jericho we've seen in his career. Triangle dropkick hits, but OC doesn't go in and sunset flips him for 2 before getting a Michinoku driver for 2.5. Stundog Millionaire hits for OC and he fires up for the revolving door DDT, but Jericho gets the walls. 

OC escapes AND HITS THE SUPERMAN PUNCH. Jericho rolls out and slugs it out with OC on the buckle. REVOLVING DOOR DDT HITS FOR 2.9. Codebreaker hits for Jericho and gets 2.9 on that one. Jericho goes to lawndart him into the mimosa, but OC wraps himself up and Jericho wants a splash mountain into hte vat. ORANGE PUNCH HITS AND JERICHO HANGS ON! A SECOND ONE SENDS HIM IN AND JERICHO LOVES THE MIMOSA! This was boring, but the right man won. Full Gear is back for November 7.

MJF is out with a moon landing tron while Mox walks down the steps of the TIAA Bank Field and then walks into Daily's Place with a fan touching him. And Mox, to his credit, just rolls with it. Tony talks about MJF being on the Rosie 'O Donnell show at 8 and he's waited for this moment since then - and now it's here. MJF's gear reminds me of Gulak's terrible American flag gear. They don't scream main eventer. MJF takes him down with a headlock takeover and Mox misses a snap elbow. They brawl and MJF gets atomic drop crotched on the barricade. Mox stares down Wardlow, who looks so great in this modern-day Batista role. Wardlow is being low-key built up as their Batista 2005-era babyface with a slow burn.

MJF yanks Mox's arm off the apron and stomps the hand. Ex talks about the MRSA infection in the arm to dovetail things nicely. MJF tackles Moxley into the barricade and Mox goes back in and tries to pop his shoulder back in on the corner. MJF hits the floor and sliced open. Mox gets an X plex for 2, Mox wants a Gotch piledriver, but the arm gives out. Mox black hole slams him on the floor! 

GOTCH DRIVER HITS FOR 2.9! MJF hits a gorgeous double stomp on the draped arm over the rope. They go back and forth on slaps with Mox going for the jaw and MJF going for slaps to the arm. Gotta say, MJF needed to have a match that showed he could be THE GUY and he's having that now. Mox gets spit on and wants the Shift, but the ref tells him he can't and MJF GETS THE FUJIWARA! MJF loses that, but gets a wrist grapevine, but Mox gets the rope and MJF is pissed. 

MJF snaps the arm and gets the draping piledriver/Heatseeker for 2.5. MJF snaps the arm and gets the draping piledriver/Heatseeker for 2.5. Mox gets the Schwein for 2. MJF gets an eye poke ON THE BAD EYE and a backslide gets 2. MJF gets a Yano special and a low blow and schoolboy get 2. CROSS RHODES HITS FOR MJF AND GETS 2! Wardlow throws the ring in and distracts the ref, so Mox hits the paradigm shift behind his back and wins it! Mox does a great Yano impression after the win.

AEW Dynamite 9-2-20

 

Jim starts the show off saying THEY'RE OBSERVING ALL THE RULES...so here's some roster folks without masks. Best Friends jump PNP before the bell. Trent dives off the stage onto them. Ex is back and we've got just mayhem all over. Chuck makes a chair fort and gets tossed into it. Ortiz gutwrenches Trent. Sole Food to Santana and the falcon arrow gets 2. Trent tags in and gets a busaiku knee. TACKLE ON THE APRON RESULTS IN TRENT HITTING THE STEPS. Save that for PPV. Jesus. Crunchy to Ortiz, but Santana puts his foot on the rope. Baton to the back and the street sweeper ends it. 

Mox vs. Mark Sterling is hyped up while MJF cuts a promo and Lee tells him that Mark locked himself in his room. MJF has Wardlow kick the door in and we see Mark with an all-grey head of hair and MJF threatens him with a wood chipper. Is it really wise to threaten to send a lawyer into a wood chipper? Bucks and the Jurassic Express face Private Party and SCU with the winning teams facing each other at the PPV. 

Nick round kicks CD off an atomic drop attempt. Kaz lands a spinning wheel kick to Jack. Flapjack/bulldog combo to Jack by Private Party. Vibora takes out Private Party with a double lariat and moonsaults onto CD on the floor. DOUBLE STANDING MOONSAULTS AND SUPERFLY DIVES! Rebound lariat by Jack hits, but SCU hits a double team blue thunder/neckbreaker. SSP by Quen gets 2 on Jack when Vibora saves. Back suplex into a Liger bomb by the Express. BTE trigger to Quen ends it, so it'll be the Express vs. the Bucks at All Out.

 Ross tells us that Hager has his own camera crew and we see him tell Orange to be ringside for his match tonight. Tully, Cash, and Dax are backstage with Tully running down their goal - the tag titles. Cash says it's the biggest match of their careers and their legacy means nothing unless they win. Dax says a win is a seven figure difference in their income. Kenny is out in orange shorts and a white Hana Kimura shirt looking like The Creamsicle. FTR comes out with the offering of a cooler with chocolate milk for him.

He calls them dickheads and they censor everything after "dick" - so that did a lot. He sees that he's walking into a 2 on 1 beating, but doesn't want it to be 3 on 1 because he can smell his Depends from here. Dax says that he's known Page his whole career and he's always been insecure. They didn't have to do anything - Kenny didn't know he was so egotistical. Dax says he's a piece of shit and they censor everything after "shit". 

Jericho and a tremendous jacket talk about making Orange Cassidy a main event star - but he ain't at the level of Le Champion. He's got OC at All Out, and he'll take out Joey Janela tonight in front of OC himself. Things are going to get a lot worse for the Bad Boy, tonight. Jericho takes his jacket off to reveal a white OC tanktop - so he's now in the "wear a shirt" phase of his career. Jericho clubs away slowly in the corner and then clubs slowly mid-ring. Jericho's working this like he's in the Nashville Fairgrounds in front of 50 people working for a hot dog and a Coke. Codebreaker and punches lead to a corner charge into a cover-less buckle. He rubs Joey's blood on the OC shirt and then they brawl. Sonny comes out and lays out Jericho while Ross calls Janela "Jannetty, whoops wrong Marty". OC pulls out bubbly and pops it for a thumbs down. 

Sammy-Matt Hardy recap video airs to set up the Broken Rules match with Hardy's AEW career on the line. Team Taz is out. Taz in shorts and an athletic jacket looks a lot better than Taz looking like a fridge in a suit. Taz talks shit about Lance and Jake and Jake says those boys are just two boys trying to get a nut - but you won't bust a nut in the ring with them. Then Kingston is out with his boys and tells Jake to keep it quick because they're live and Lance is tough, but he ain't tougher than him. Tully is out with Spears and we get more rambling with Taz saying his boys will fight all of their boys now. THAT'S BILLY OF THE GUNN CLUB, NOT BILLY GUNN, EXCALIBUR! 

Lots of brawling and then PNP is out with Hager and the Best Friends. More brawling and chaos and we get a Brodie Lee recap video. Dustin swears vengeance for Cody at All Out. Thunder Rosa's out looking like a star to face Serena Deeb. Ex talks about Rosa beating Allysin Kay to win the title. Serena ties her into a tequila sunrise, but slams the knee into the mat. Corner basement dropkick hits for Rosa and she chokes her on the rope. Deeb gets a back cracker. Thunder Rosa doing Miz's corner lariat is something else, nice Hardyiac arrest-variant on the shotgun knees. Inverted Angle slam leads to a cradle attempt for Serena, but a death valley bomb hits high and tight and they exchange weird cradles for 2. Busaiku knee hits for Rosa and the Thunder Driver ends it. This was the best AEW women's match since Riho.

Mox tells MJF to not sweat the process of being champion - you get used to answering the same questions all the time. He says it's all been easy for MJF now, but it'll get a lot tougher on Saturday. Swole talks with Tony about finally facing Britt Baker at the Buy In. Reba delivers a pizza so Britt can take her out with a crutch and they throw pizza on her. LOCKJAW! Tooth and Nail match at the Buy In...which means what exactly? They run down ALL THE CONTENT for the weekend, and there's a shitload of it. They hype up the Tooth and Nail match and it's...just a name of a match I guess we should know. 

Mark Sterling shows up in a Jimmy Hart starter kit. Ross talks about Sterlng's hair being grey, black and brown. Mox asks for forgiveness for what he has to do. Mox offers a free shot AND SHOWS HIM HOW TO MAKE A FIST. He swings and misses - but Mox's slap doesn't. Sterling goes WHAT after the slap and offers a free shot to the back - and matadors his way out of the path. Mark gets an eye poke and then eats a lariat. Mox throws him onto a barricade and tosses chairs on that. 

Mox tears one of Mark's shoes off and beats him with it. Mox offers his hand because this is terrible television and eye pokes him before the elevated paradigm shift ends it. Wardlow beats up Mox and hits the F10. MJF is out and takes off the gimmicks and loads up the ring to KO Moxley. Mox is split open and says "Your fucking nuts!" as MJF splits his pants at the crotch.

​​​​​​​Their censors are tremendous.

 

WWE Payback 2020

 

Pre-show has a nothing match between the Riott Squad and the IIconics with the heels bullying Ruby and making Liv think Ruby hit her, but Liv tags in and comes to her senses and beats up the heels before a double-team Riott Kick ends it. Randy-Drew and Randy-Keith video packages air to get over Lee's agility.

Lashley is out to face Crews for the US Title. MVP cuts a promo on Crews and he says that Crews got lucky last week and now, he's got Lashley. MVP looks so much older with the shaved goatee. Tie-up and takedown for Lashley. Lashley hits an elevated flatliner over the top rope. Nice! Lashley runs Crews ribs-first into the post and he is just THE MAN. Lashley gets a fallaway slam and sends him into the corner, but Crews avoids a suplex. Dominator/Yokosuka cutter hits, but he sends him to the rope for 2.

Corner charge by Lashley leads to an enzuiguri and Crews gets a crossbody. Stinger splash in the corner by Crews, but Lashley avoids the toss powerbomb, but eats a spinebuster. Standing moonsault for 2. Lashley avoids the toss, but gets the full nelson, but Crews ducks down and gets a pair of Germans and a frog splash for 2. Lashley hits a Judas Effect and elevated spinebuster to set up the Full Lashley - he gets the hooks in and wins it! We get a post-match "photo op" with live shots being shown of it. Crews attacks after the match because he's a sore loser. 

Thank you Cole for reading THE EXACT SAME AD COPY YOU ALWAYS RECITE in the same way about the Thunderdome. Reigns heel turn recap. Kayla is backstage in a suit that matches her eye liner in front of Roman's locker room. Heyman asks her to ask a good question so he doesn't waste any of their time and Roman will sign the contract when he is ready. The effervescent Keith Lee. Tremendous! JBL talks to him about investing in hedge funds with only a million dollars down. Keith says he can't afford that. "Well thanks for the offer, JBL, but I'm too poor. BUT THANKS TO THE KIND AND GENEROUS MCMAHONS, I MAY ONE DAY ACCOMPLISH MY DREAMS!"

Miz and Big E's deal from Talking Smack is shown with Miz's unreal white and red outfit. Sheamus vs. Big E is up. I get some technical issues and things come back with Sheamus locking in a half-crab. Suicide spear meets a knee and the outside-in shoulder tackle. Sheamus hits an Alabama slam for 2. E revs up for the suicide spear and instead of Sheamus...just staying on the floor, he goes on the apron like an idiot. THE VIRTUAL WWE UNIVERSE fires up Big E! Sheamus gets a heel hook and a big pump knee gets 2. Brogue, but he catches him into a powerbomb and Big Endings him to win. This ruled!

A new interview girl named Alyse interviews the King of Bros as he says the King of Bros will take King Corbin's crown. She reads off this long-winded goofball tweet about Corbin burying his home life. MY GOD WE GET ACTING FROM SHAYNA AND NIA! Corbin jumps Riddle and the ref asks THE MMA FIGHTER if he can continue. Corbin is a GOLDEN GLOVES BOXING CHAMPION facing a former UFC fighter and Riddle's fighting from underneath because sure why not. CORBINLOCK into a Kimura by Riddle. RNC by Riddle and the fakeout lariat hits for Corbin.  TWO CORBINLOCKS!

Another fakeout lariat is met with a Cro Cop kick by Riddle. Deep Six hits for 2. Corbin gets the mount and eats elbows from a downed position. Floating bro ends it. "This is a massive upset!"
Why? ON WHAT PLANET IS THIS AN UPSET!? Backstage, Riddle says he's done with Corbin BUT CORBIN jumps him. This has only been on an hour!? Bayley and Sasha recap to set up the tag title match. Bayley and Sasha have matching red and black gear.

Ground abdominal stretch by Sasha to Shayna and the heels double team...something maybe a back breaker to Shayna. Nia misses a legdrop and is beached like a whale, so Bayley humps her leg like a dog for a "kneebar". Sure why not. Shayna comes in and gets the Yokosuka cutter and knee for 2. Shayna gets a kneebar/RNC combo because sure and that leads to SHAYNA AND NIA AS WACKY TAG CHAMPS THAT DON'T GET ALONG! Shayna cuts a promo-ish while Nia dances and yells.

Seth and Murphy face the Mysterios in a boring match. Dom wins with the 619 and frog splash after throwing Rey into a sunset bomb on Rollins on the floor. Braun and Bray start off with a billion finishers and hit big moves. Uranage mid-ring then another on the floor through the announce table. BRAY BONKS HIM WITH THE MALLET and Braun chugga chugga choo choos him off the stage. Bray superplexes Braun to break the ring, but THE BIG DOG comes down and signs the contract chair in tow. He wants an easy win but can't get it and is stumped...despite having a chair with him. Chairshots aplenty and a spear end it for Braun, so Bray is protected in defeat and Roman beats Braun for the billionth time.