‘AEW: All Out 2024’ PPV Review
Welcome to this review of 2023’s All Out pay-per-view, which once again emanated from Chicago and in particular the NOW Arena. And we all know Chicago crowds can appreciate a good pay-per-view and this was a good pay-per-view! The pay-per-view kicked off with the usual Zero Hour, which saw The Acclaimed beat The Iron Savages; Hologram Dustin Rhodes & Sammy Guevara defeat The Premier Athletes (Josh Woods, Tony Nese & Ariya Daivari); The Bang Bang Gang (Juice Robinson, and Austin & Colten Gunn) beat The Dark Order (Evil Uno, John Silver & Alex Reynolds); and Undisputed Kingdom (Matt Taven, Mike Bennett & Roderick Strong) steal the win in a three-way trios match. With that out the way, let’s see what went down on the rest of the show:
Match #1: MJF def. Daniel Garcia
The following is courtesy of allelitewrestling.com:
Danny Garcia ambushed MJF as MJF entered the ring. Garcia was out for blood! MJF finally stopped Garcia with a neck breaker. MJF drilled Danny with a DDT. Garcia regained some momentum after landing a lariat. Garcia hit three consecutive twisting neck breakers. MJF caught Garcia and smashed Garcia with a power bomb onto MJF’s knee. MJF chomped on Garcia’s head, opening Garcia’s cut from Dynamite when MJF smashed Garcia with a wine bottle. Garcia rocked MJF with a diving DDT from the top turnbuckle. MJF mule kicked Garcia and then planted him with a Panama Sunrise! Garcia rallied back with a flurry of elbow strikes. Max poked Garcia in the eyes. MJF cracked Garcia with a thunderous right hand strike. Garcia threw MJF overhead with a German Suplex and then threw his entire body into a lariat. MJF locked Garcia into the Walls of Jericho. Garcia escaped and put MJF into the LeBell Lock. MJF countered with a cradle, pinning Garcia for a two-count. MJF locked Danny in the cross face. Garcia escaped and put MJF into the Dragon Tamer. MJF escaped and countered with an arm bar. Garcia grabbed MJF, poised for a piledriver. Garcia stuffed MJF with a jumping piledriver and covered MJF, but MJF kicked out at the two-count! MJF shoved the ref, hit Garcia with a low blow, and then stole the win with a jackknife pin!
My Score: 4 out of 5
Match #2: AEW World Tag Team Championship Match – The Young Bucks (Matthew & Nicholas Jackson) def. Blackpool Combat Club (Claudio Castagnoli & Wheeler Yuta)
The following is courtesy of allelitewrestling.com:
The Bucks showed cohesion early on, using their world famous patented tag team offense on Wheeler Yuta. Yuta ducked under a lariat attempt. Yuta crawled toward his corner and tagged out to Claudio. Claudio cleaned house on the Young Bucks using European Uppercuts. Yuta locked Matthew up in a seat belt pin and Matthew escaped just in the nick of time. Nicholas superkicked Yuta. Wheeler fought against the odds with a thrust kick to Nicholas and then a German Suplex to Matthew. Yuta put Matthew in the Cattle Mutilation, but Nicholas broke it up with a senton atomico. The Bucks crunched Claudio with the EVP Trigger. Yuta jumped in to break up the pin attempt on Claudio. The Bucks pumped up their sneakers. The Bucks blasted Claudio with superkicks. Claudio blocked the EVP Trigger. Claudio countered with a double suplex. Claudio hurled Matthew Jackson around the ring with the Giant Swing. Claudio superplexed Matthew. They went for the Fast Ball Special, but Matthew was playing possum and countered by lifting his knees into Yuta’s ribcage. Matthew cradled Yuta for the 1-2-3!
My Score: 3 out of 5
Match #3: AEW International Championship Match – Will Ospreay def. PAC
The following is courtesy of allelitewrestling.com:
Pac went for a hurracanrana, but Will landed on his feet! Pac connected with a sky twister press to the floor! Pac tried for a springboard dropkick, but Ospreay countered with a dropkick and then a sky twister press of his own. Back in the ring, Ospreay and Pac traded strikes. Pac whipped Will into the steel guardrail. Pac brought Will back into the ring with an avalanche brain buster. Ospreay rallied back with a flying elbow from the barricade to Pac. Ospreay stunned Pac with the Sasuke Special! Ospreay connected with a corkscrew kick to the back of Pac’s neck for a near fall. Pac went for a moonsault, but Ospreay caught him, and then Pac countered with a DDT! Pac hit a Liger Bomb for a near fall on the Aerial Assassin. Ospreay rocked Pac with a standing Spanish Fly, but Pac was able to sustain the attempted comeback from Ospreay, kicking out of Ospreay’s pin attempt. Pac ducked the Hidden Blade and then nailed Will with a thrust kick. Ospreay hit an Os-Cutter out of nowhere. Pac decimated Ospreay with a German Suplex on the apron! “The Bastard” followed up with a poison rana on the apron. Pac applied the Brutalizer in the center of the ring! Ospreay reached the ropes with a toe to the bottom rope, forcing the ref to break the hold. The fans were on their feet, standing everywhere as Pac countered a power bomb with a hurracanrana for a near fall! Pac devastated Will with another poison rana. Pac put Will in the Brutalizer again! Ospreay escaped and nailed Pac with the Hidden Blade for a near fall! Pac attempted an avalanche poison rana, but Will landed on his feet. Will went right for another Hidden Blade, but Pac kicked out at the two-count! Ospreay connected with the Os-Cutter! Ospreay planted Pac with the Styles Clash, followed up with the Hidden Blade, and finally managed to pin Pac!
My Score: 4.5 out of 5
Match #4: Chicago Street Fight – Kris Statlander def. Willow Nightingale
The following is courtesy of allelitewrestling.com:
Stokely slid a steel chair into the ring. Willow power bombed Stat into the turnbuckles. Willow wrecked Kris with a cannonball in the corner for a near fall. Kris cracked Willow with the steel chair. Kris drove Willow through the Spanish announce table with a power bomb. Stokely and Kris pulled a table out from beneath the ring. Statlander went for a senton to Willow, but Willow dodged it, and Stat crash-landed through the table. Willow pounced Kris, sending Kris right through the barricade. Willow wound up and walloped Kris with a lariat on the ramp. Statlander showed her strength with a snap suplex to Willow on the stage. Stokely brought out a trash can full of plunder. Kris grabbed a barbed wire wrapped baseball bat. Willow found fluorescent light tubes and broke them over Statlander’s head! Statlander, out of sheer desperation, speared Willow off the stage and through the tables below. Willow wrapped Kris’ steel chain around her first. Willow drove the chain into the wound on Kris’ forehead and then chomped down. Statlander avoided a lariat and countered with a German Suplex. Statlander emptied a bag of thumbtacks in the ring. Kris went for an ax kick, but Willow moved, and Kris split right on top of the thumbtacks. Willow followed up with a Death Valley Driver, but Kris kicked out at the two-count! Statlander rocked Willow with a Spanish Fly from the top rope. Statlander cracked Willow with a discus lariat, the steel chain wrapped around Stat’s fist and arm. Statlander pulled a dog collar out from beneath the ring. She wrapped it around Willow’s wrist. Willow put the other end of the chain around her wrist. Willow wasted no time and planted Kris with a spinebuster on the thumbtacks. Statlander spiked Willow with a tombstone piledriver. Statlander wrapped the chain around the face and throat of Willow and Willow submitted!
My Score: 4 out of 5
Match #5: AEW Continental Championship Match – Kazuchika Okada def. Orange Cassidy, Konosuke Takeshita, & Mark Briscoe
The following is courtesy of allelitewrestling.com:
Okada and Takeshita had a stare down. Orange took both of them down with a double hurracanrana. Orange pulped Okada with a DDT for a near fall. Briscoe stung Takeshita with chops and Takeshita gave it right back to Briscoe. Briscoe dropped a Cactus Elbow onto Takeshita. Orange dropped an elbow of his own to Okada. Orange rocked Takeshita with a Stun Dog Millionaire and then a vertical suplex. Briscoe and Orange traded strikes. Okada and Takeshita exchanged elbow strikes until Okada connected with an amazing dropkick. Takeshita answered with a Blue Thunder Bomb for a near fall! Takeshita superplexed Orange. Briscoe tried to capitalize with a Froggy Bow to Takeshita, but Okada jumped in to break up Briscoe’s pin attempt. Okada landed an elbow drop on Briscoe! Okada blocked a Jay Driller attempt, but Briscoe blasted Okada with a rainmaker lariat. Takeshita shoved Orange into Briscoe. Takeshita countered a Stun Dog Millionaire attempt with a piledriver and a German Suplex! Briscoe jumped back into the fray with a Jay Driller on Takeshita. Briscoe covered Takeshita but Orange pulled Briscoe out of the ring. Takeshita smashed Briscoe with a power drive knee, but Orange was there to make the save. Cassidy went for the Orange Punch, but Takeshita drilled Orange with a strike. Okada rocked Briscoe with a rainmaker. Okada clocked Cassidy with the rainmaker lariat and pinned “Freshly Squeezed” Orange Cassidy!
My Score: 3 out of 5
Match #6: TBS Championship Match – Mercedes Moné def. Hikaru Shida
The following is courtesy of allelitewrestling.com:
Shida dropkicked Mercedes four times and went for the cover, but Mercedes escaped. Shida stunned Mercedes with a rising knee strike. Mercedes, undeterred, fired back with double knees. Shida plucked Mercedes out of the air with a hurracanrana. Shida threw Mercedes into the turnbuckles with a reverse hammer throw. Mercedes used Shida’s aggression against her, applying a cross face to Shida. Mercedes nailed Shida with a lung blower and then a sunset flip power bomb in the corner. Mercedes took down Shida with the three amigos suplex sequence. Shida countered a frog splash by raising her knees. Shida blasted Mercedes with three consecutive falcon arrows for a near fall on the champion. Mercedes countered the katana kick with a knee breaker and then a back stabber. Shida popped up and rammed Mercedes with a running knee to Mercedes’ jaw. Shida knocked Mercedes’ block off with the katana kick. And then another! And after a third katana kick, Mercedes rolled out of the ring. The champion tried to grab the kendo stick, but Shida pulled it out of Mercedes’ hands. Shida thought about using the kendo stick but threw it to the mat. Mercedes moved out of the way of a meteora. Mercedes chop blocked Shida and then finished her off with the Moné Maker, scoring the pin!
My Score: 2.5 out of 5
Match #7: AEW World Championship Match – Bryan Danielson def. Jack Perry
The following is courtesy of allelitewrestling.com:
Perry used an arm drag on Danielson. The champ marched forward, and Perry retreated from the ring. Danielson grabbed Perry and suplexed him. Danielson swept Perry’s legs and put Perry in the flying surfboard submission hold. Danielson cracked Perry in the ears with forearms. Danielson threw his body at Perry with a springboard to Perry on the arena floor! Perry was blasted across the ring by a dropkick. Danielson jumped off the apron, but Perry countered with a thrust kick and then a draping DDT to the arena floor! Perry got a full head of steam and dropkicked Perry into the guardrail. Perry nailed Bryan with a neck breaker in the ring. Perry chopped Danielson but Danielson fired back, lighting up Perry’s chest. Perry blistered the champ with more chops. Danielson suplexed Perry from the turnbuckles. Bryan Danielson walloped Perry with round kicks. Danielson pivoted to a LeBell Lock on Perry. Jack Perry reached the ropes with his boots, forcing the ref to break the hold. Jack Perry retaliated with a drop toe hold and then captured Danielson’s arms, applying the cattle mutilation on the champ. Perry planted Danielson with a snap dragon suplex. Perry dished out a second snap dragon suplex to Danielson. Perry and Danielson traded strikes on the apron. Danielson rocked Perry with a butterfly suplex off the apron to the arena floor. Danielson targeted Perry’s arm with a guillotine leg drop. Danielson kicked Perry in the head, showing no mercy. Perry caught Danielson in the snare trap! Danielson saw the ropes and clawed his way to them, forcing the ref to break the hold. Danielson knocked Perry down with a roundhouse kick. Perry pulled the referee into Danielson’s path, and the ref fell to the mat. Danielson grabbed Perry but the Bucks stormed the ring, double teaming Danielson with stomps and kicks. The Bucks spiked Danielson with the TK Driver. Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta sprinted to the ring and chased off the Young Bucks! Perry got the ref back to his feet. Perry drilled Danielson with a knee to the side of the head, but Danielson kicked out at the two-count! Perry captured Danielson’s wrists and began to stomp on Danielson’s skull. Perry charged at Danielson, but Danielson countered with the Busaiku Knee. Danielson swarmed Perry with palm strikes and then a rolling elbow strike. Danielson landed the Busaiku Knee, but Perry kicked out at the two-count! Bryan grabbed Perry’s wrists and began to stomp Perry’s head. Perry, defiant, sat up. Danielson took advantage of the opportunity and used the Busaiku Knee to finish off Perry and earn the victory!
My Score: 4 out of 5
Match #8: Lights Out Steel Cage Match – Swerve Strickland def. “Hangman” Adam Page (DQ)
The following is courtesy of allelitewrestling.com:
Swerve had a gameplan and charged at Page before the cage was lowered. Prince Nana started sliding implements like chairs and a table into the ring before the cage descended all the way down to the mat. Swerve cracked Page with the House Call kick! Page answered with a German Suplex. Page pulled a stapler gun out of a tool box. Page began to staple Swerve in the chest and Swerve laughed it off. Hangman lost his grip on the staple gun and Swerve stapled Page in the back. Swerve nailed Hangman with a back breaker. Swerve pulled out photos of his family. Swerve stapled the family photo to the chest of Hangman Page. Swerve stapled another family photo to Page’s face. Swerve used the cage as a weapon, grabbing Page from the top turnbuckle and then throwing Hangman Page into the fencing! Page pulled Swerve’s legs, and Swerve landed split legged on the top rope. Hangman grabbed barbed wire and wrapped it around his right arm. Hangman clubbed Swerve with a lariat, Hangman’s arm wrapped in the wire. Page sent Swerve headfirst into the cage. Swerve came back with a clothesline to Page. Swerve charged at Page but Page dodged Swerve. Swerve’s momentum, along with some not-so-friendly help from Page, forced Swerve to crash into the cage. Page took Swerve’s head and ground it across the barbed wire and the cage. Page caught Swerve flush in the jaw with a high boot. As Page was arguing with ref Paul Turner about a steel chair, Swerve scored with the House Call kick. The ref went to pick up the chair, trying to put some semblance of sanity into the match, but Swerve catapulted off the ref’s back and nailed Page with the Buckshot Lariat! Swerve waffled Page with the steel chair. Swerve lawn darted Page into a steel chair that was wedged between the turnbuckles! Swerve pulled a cinder block out and placed it onto the mat. Swerve planted Page down hard on the cinder block. Swerve and Page jockeyed for position on the top turnbuckle. Swerve smashed Page with the Swerve Stomp, Page crashing through a table below! Swerve was searching for another House Call, but Page countered with the Dead Eye for a near fall! Page pulled out a splinter of burnt wood from Swerve’s house. Page tried to blind Swerve with it, but Swerve countered with an arm bar, trying to wrestle the wooden spike away from Hangman Page. Swerve hit Page in the forehead with the spike. Page hit Swerve with a low blow and then power bombed Swerve onto the cinder block! Page covered Swerve and somehow Swerve kicked out at the two-count! Swerve rallied back, power bombing Page against the steel cage! Swerve cracked Page with a House Call kick! Swerve connected with a second House Call and covered Hangman for a near fall! Swerve began to climb to the very top of the cage. Page stopped the ascent and power bombed Swerve from the top turnbuckle. Page drilled Swerve with a Dead Eye for a near fall! Page rammed the edge of a steel chair into Swerve’s forehead. Swerve stood to his feet and then dropped at the boots of Hangman Page. Page pulled the grill out of Swerve’s mouth. Page pulled out a hypodermic needle and jabbed Swerve in the mouth! Hangman knocked out Swerve with a steel chair shot, the ref immediately calling for the bell!
My Score: 4.5 out of 5
Final Verdict: 4.5/5
What a show! Yet again AEW pulled out all the stops for All Out! There was a distinct focus on violence here, being different from the “other” company and embracing the kinds of OTT wrestling you see on the indies – with light tubes, tacks, cinder blocks, needles and [gimmicked] unprotected chair shots! Phew! But… and I do mean this, absolutely NOTHING prepared me for the implosion of the BCC after Bryan Danielson’s match and just what Jon Moxley did to Bryan. Wow. I know Tony Khan said AEW was “for the sickos” but this pay-per-view really felt they embrace that slogan whole-heartedly!
