9 Ups & 2 Downs From AEW All Out 2023 (Results & Review)
A week after Wembley, a post-Punk AEW books arguably the biggest over-delivery in wrestling history.
24 hours before All Out 2023, Tony Khan finally made a decision.
A day short of a year removed from when he should have made one, Tony Khan finally made a decision and elected to fire CM Punk.
This wasn’t a choice made in the spirit of compromise or a peace-keeping attempt that gave no thought for the next peace-keeping attempt when the first one failed to keep the peace, this was a decision with serious consequences for everybody involved, equally hefty ones for those on the peripheries, and ramifications that broke new ground for the AEW President.
It defined the narrative for an otherwise-poorly built All Out card. A card initially due to feature Punk prominently now stood to be the first of a post-Punk era. Eyes were on AEW, on Chicago, and Tony Khan as a leader and booker.
What did they see?