Category: AEW PPV Musings

Before anyone asks, yes, the banner does indeed feature a promotional mugshot of the late Don S. Davis, who is perhaps best known for his role as General George Hammond in the sci-fi television series, Stargate SG-1. One of the characters on the show referred to him as “Hammond Of Texas.”

So now why am I featuring the late, great General Hammond on the banner for an AEW Pay-Per-View event from Texas?

Because I feel like it… and also fuck you.

So Summerslam is coming up… and it’s the first edition to go two-nights, which honestly doesn’t surprise me if they eventually do the same with Royal Rumble as well…. which wouldn’t be a bad idea – two nights, each headlined by a Rumble match… makes the most sense, actually. But we’re not here to talk about that. We’re here to talk about AEW’s big All In PPV event that took place from Texas. (No go on their annual New Japan get-together… undecided on All Out… but we’ll eventually cover Slammiversary, even though it’s a NXT show disguised as a TNA show.)

Anyway, this is the other AEW PPV that I planned on watching this month – the other being this year’s Double Or Nothing PPV – and really, nothing else in the horizon seems to be on my radar unless they book a really amazing card that has me going, “Yes! That sound exciting! Shut up and take my goddamned money!”

To date, there hasn’t been an AEW show that has done that. Double Or Nothing wouldn’t have been a blip on my radar if it had been a show under any other name. Quite honestly, neither has All In. But both were special events.

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Your eyes do not deceive. It’s a PPV Musings on a recent AEW Pay-Per-View event.

In all honesty, this shouldn’t be much of a surprise. While it’s no secret that I haven’t been a fan of the general creative direction that AEW has been going on in recent months, I’d be lying if I said that there were some efforts made in trying to steer the ship right. And also, regardless of my feelings on the current AEW product, watching Double Or Nothing has become something of a tradition going back to the very first event back in 2019. If nothing else, I’d like to keep that tradition going similar to how some friends I know, who largely gave up on wrestling years ago, will still make a point to watch Wrestlemania every year… though some couldn’t keep up with the two-night Buy One Get One free set-up, but that’s okay.

With that having been said, I’d be lying if I said that this year’s Double Or Nothing event felt like a complete afterthought. What was once one of their big tentpole events has basically become the equivalent of a B-level PPV event as we gear up for All In from Texas in July. This year’s Double Or Nothing is a bit of a milestone, as it is the first event since the 2022 edition NOT to emanate from the traditional home of Las Vegas – which just hosted the 5-night Buy One, Get One free extravaganza known as Wrestlemania 41 headlined by Cold Manipulator Punk, but rather from Glensdale, Arizona… who once hosted a hockey team here.

Still, there was some fun stuff to look forward to here and also… well, let’s not jump ahead here and instead dive into this one… off the deep end, Mr. Scott.

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It’s AEW WrestleDream 2024 – the show where Bryan Danielson’s full-time career came to an end.

A bit of disclosure here: I had already watched the show earlier this year and had this whole thing written up. The idea was to post it in between the 2015 and 2025 Royal Ramble posts, since I wasn’t planning on watching the Genesis PPV from TNA due to the whole deal there, but then I ended up watching the Genesis PPV where the right guy won and so this ended up in the backburner while that Genesis show got the spotlight.

And so here we are at WrestleDream, which is our last AEW PPV for a while. Next week, we’ll probably do another TNA PPV or something.

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And then there was the AEW Revolution show… which I was able to watch while at a friend’s house taking care of some stuff… yes, it’s another four hour show with the usual great wrestling and some spectacles of sort, but this is also comes across as a late-90s WCW PPV, where the undercard matches are great, but the main event is shit.

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All Out 2024 has become one of the more controversial AEW PPVs in recent memory and for once, none of that has to do with backstage drama.

Anyway, I finally got around to seeing this show and yes, I have plenty to say about the proceedings.

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For the second year in a row, All Elite Wrestling held their now annual All In event from Wembley Stadium in London and after the previous year’s record-setting attendance, we didn’t quite have that repeat performance here. No big surprise; something about diminishing returns. On the bright side, though; you still had a respectable 40-50K in attendance and they were given a largely entertaining show capped off with a show-closing moment that should have come sooner. Most importantly of all, there was no backstage drama to kill the mood and so people can talk about how this was a good show rather than some bullshit that happened in the back… but most people would rather talk about attendance being down since that’s the commonality with AEW these days.

Whatever. I don’t care. I finally got around to seeing both All In and All Out recently (via a loan of DVD recordings) and I have some quick thoughts for this show… as for the next show… well, that’s another story, but for now, All IN…

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For anyone wondering why it’s taken me this long to post musings on this show, it’s because it’s taken me this long to WATCH said show.

Double Or Nothing 2024 is a near-five hour sloth. I’ve heard good things, but the one takeaway was “it’s too damn long.” And when I heard the runtime for this thing, I said, “No thanks. Not for me.” And even when my buddy loaned me his DVD recording of the show to watch some time afterwards, I simply didn’t have the stomach to sit through that entire show. Even on a card built on great wrestling, there comes a point where you can only watch so much before it becomes an afterthought. And that’s probably the big takeaway with this show. See it in one shot and by the end of the show, you’re mostly clockwatching. Watch it in bits and pieces and you can start to appreciate the individual pieces.

That was my approach with this show; watch a match or two a day and get back to the rest another time. That way, I have a greater appreciation for the quality of the matches and such, whereas even splitting it in a couple days worth of viewing, something would’ve been off. So bare in mind when reading this that I’m watching this show in bits and pieces because that’s the only way I could digest this thing. Trying to do this in one shot… eh, I don’t have that in me anymore, regardless of the actual quality.

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Well… after a long time coming, we’re finally getting the long-teased Desmond Wolfe vs. Lloyd Boner match.

Yes, Grand Slam from a much emptier Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York featured Bryan Danielson defending his World title against Nigel McGuiness, who made a surprise appearance at the All In Gauntlet match and is now a World Title contender despite not having wrestled in over a decade or so. Also, Darby Allin puts his World title shot on the line in a match against Jon Moxley for… some reason, and finally, Tony Khan gets a new neckbrace.

That last one is a lie, but we’re using the old meme banner for Dynamite, even though I actually thought that this was a great Dynamite show.

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April 21st, 2024 saw another AEW Pay-Per-View event added to the annual AEW PPV cycle and naturally, I didn’t get the show.

Yeah… sorry, folks. I was fine with four a month and while it was a total pipe dream for them to keep at like that until the end of time, I kinda held out hope. Now I don’t bother getting them live and I wait for a friend to loan me his recordings of the shows months after the fact… because we still record stuff to DVD-R to this day and will undoubtedly continue to do this until our DVD recorders eventually die out… I may have jinxed this entire operation, haven’t I?

Anyway, as of this moment, there’s only two other shows I’ve not seen; the Double Or Nothing show and Forbidden Door, but we’ll be doing something else next week. In the meantime, here’s the Dynasty musings… maybe next year, they can do Dallas as a PPV name… no?

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Note: This was supposed to go up this past Wednesday, but then I saw Slammiversary and that takes presedence.

The final AEW PPV of 2023 took place a day before New Year’s Eve and featured World Champion MJF defending his title against Samoa Joe… also a bunch of other stuff happened too.

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