10 AEW ALL OUT 2021 Impulse Reactions

10. Hardy Family Office Vs. Best Friends & Jurassic Express

AEW - with this match as evidence - have a problem to address at the lower end of their card.

Most of these men have gobbled up what's felt like an inordinate amount of television time to gradually build to a ten-man opener that satisfied the live crowd but didn't remotely leap off the screen. It was hard to find much feeling amongst all the feeling out, too.

The wrestlers worked hard, and Orange Cassidy and Jungle Boy are every bit the success stories they've long been trumpeted as, but the qualifier at the start of this sentence should reveal that there's nothing much else exciting to say at the end.

Almost everybody got some sh*t in, Matt Hardy's own involvement was brief and inconsequential as per his character, and the faces gave the fans something to cheer with a routine win. A post-match angle triggered the return of The Butcher and the arrival of some other undercard babyfaces just to give everybody a bit of face time in front of a hot Chicago crowd. All very nice, but that's long stopped feeling enough.