10 Things We Learned From Attending AEW All In 2023

4. Stadium Stampede Is A Better Title Than A Stipulation

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Nothing on the All In London card was bad, and that's to the entire promotion's credit as mentioned elsewhere in this list. But if any pedantry can be permitted, perhaps let it be for Stadium Stampede being little more than a unique sequel to Double Or Nothing 2023's Anarchy In The Arena 2, which itself couldn't really follow the 2022 original.

It wasn't without significant heat and emotion - Eddie Kingston and Jon Moxley walk the love/hate lines better than anybody else in the industry - and a walk and brawl on this show was a welcome palette cleanser either side of some heftier stuff, but the branding that generated a Pavlovian pop on Dynamite the other week should probably just be left in 2020 along with the other difficulties that era provided.

This isn't a complaint exclusive to All In London either - Double Or Nothing 2021's Inner Circle/Pinnacle battle couldn't follow the creativity and much-needed levity of the gorgeous once-in-a-lifetime (hopefully!) original.

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