AEW All Elite Wrestling #9: Mox Aggressor Brings the Blood

[GKJ]

Can’t be surprised at the result, just surprised this is what they’re doing.

 

[Clint Eastwood]

That was the darkest ending to a PPV I've seen in quite sometime. Seems like they're really positioning Darby and Cassidy to really be the main adversaries against the BCC. Darby in particular.

Fantastic show overall. AEW PPVs rarely miss. Even the matches I was least interested in (Perry/Shibata, Jericho/Briscoe) got me invested as the match went on.

 

[CDJ]

 

[frightenedinmatenum2]

The booking around the Danielson stuff has been tremendous. All In was very successful off the backs of how they presented Danielson as a challenger with his big win being telegraphed.

Some people wanted a new person to get elevated with Danielson losing the belt, but they can't have Darby or whoever be the one to beat him after 2 months, because it undercuts the face who beats him. Look at the reaction to Danielson losing. It's not Undertaker losing the streak, but it's probably the closest thing we will see in the tone of the reaction. People weren't ready for him to lose, so they can't really have a new face beat him without it hurting that face.

When Darby or whoever takes down Moxley, that's the big payoff where by transcendence, Bryan's run gets someone new over, because they used the angle around his retirement to reheat Moxley as the biggest heel they have had in a very long time, and if they follow it up nicely, whoever beats Moxley will get a much bigger rub than if they had been the one to retire Danielson.

Yuta involved also means that they do not have to go back to Danielson/Moxley if/when he returns. They could very well have Darby/Moxley at All In, and Yuta/Bryan lights out at All Out.

Something that almost always works in wrestling is the slow burn of the babyface standing up to and leaving the heel group. If Yuta opposes Moxley now, he's getting beaten, and likely not in the angle for the long haul. Putting him back in the group, especially in the way they did it where it was more shades of grey where he made the choice in the moment and was still conflicted, not "hahaha I was pretending to care about Bryan", they can eventually pull the trigger on Yuta standing up to Moxley.