7 Ups & 3 Downs From AEW Revolution 2024 (Results & Review)

1. Unnecessary, Overlong, Contrived

The All-Star Scramble match was worked like a WWE Money In The Bank Ladder match without any cool ladder spots nor indeed a ladder. Every bad aspect of that match was brought into focus in this one.

The contrived over-selling on the outside looks bad enough as it is; without some awe-inspiring deranged stunt or other to temporarily write the talent out of the action, it was significantly worse. A lot of contrivance with minimal exhilaration: this was the worst of both worlds. If you're going to work a spot-fest, it really is bad manners not to include many good spots.

Dante Martin had an off-night when it was his turn to shine. Chris Jericho's presence was unwanted. Again. Lance Archer's stuff is always fun but it's impossible to take seriously when he never wins and disappears for months on end after every appearance. Brian Cage executed a deranged inside out suplex on HOOK in the highlight of a match that did at times flow into the next sequence with a degree of thought. The wrestlers elsewhere took it in turns to do one-on-one sequences, mostly, as everybody else in the match just lurked about. This was deeply inelegant even by genre standards.

AEW has intensified its biggest problem in 2024: the roster is stacked to a parodic extent. The depth is ridiculous. Tony Khan will have to think of something better than this if he feels the need to cram them all on the show. Wardlow won, which, in an additional problem, telegraphed the outcome of the World title match.

This was a burden and time-sink.