7 Ups & 7 Downs From AEW All Out 2022
MJF returns; AEW crowns new champions; Tony Khan badly needs to show some restraint.
AEW boss Tony Khan is one self-appointed World Title reign and a New York accent from turning into this generation's Vince Russo. OK, that's over-the-top, but deliberately so - this writer is still smarting from an awkward, often convoluted build towards All Out, and he's not quite ready to forgive TK for it.
Then, the pay-per-view happened.
The latest All Elite supershow was a bloated one, but it did boast some seriously good moments. Those, unfortunately, were tempered by baffling decisions and a few too many crowd-displeasing finishes that didn't help when inevitable fan burnout reared its ugly head late into the 15-match strong show (if one includes Zero Hour, which most probs do).
Also, that f*cking build! It wrecked some of All Out's biggest potential treats, there's no doubt about that. Sticking CM Punk vs. Jon Moxley out there again so suddenly just never felt like suitable follow-up for the Dynamite squash, for example.
However, and this is a big "however", MJF's return does open up real possibilities for a World Title triumph everyone wants to see. That's true even though the heel is still giving fans the middle finger and maybe even about to launch yet another heel stable.
Here's all the good and bad from Sunday's epic.