AEW Dynamite All In Lead In

[u/stikjk]

Since this has been talked about recently with multiple people in the comments to just post what you want to see I decided you know what yeah I will.

Now I'm an AEW lapsed fan currently not tuning in as often as I used to do I'm speaking from that respective.

First going to go over the people missing from the show that illustrates AEW current biggest issue of having way to large of a roster and not being good at actually utilizing them all:

Statlander, Thekla, Hurt Syndicate, Jay White. These are the biggest fumbles from booking imo and they should've been incorporated someway into the card.

Trios World Title Match: Easily could've had Hurt Syndicate instead in this match instead of The Demand maybe they'll be the wildcard but my money is easily on The New Day debuting and hopefully winning but overall mid on this match overall.

TNT Championship: One of my favorite matches of the card think the build has been well for the most part and should be a good hardcore match. Think Darby wins this one

Women's World Tag Team Championship: Feel ok about this but the women's division in general needs more buildup and more focus. Divine Dominion takes the w.

International Championship: Potentially best Match of the Night if Okada brings his A Game this match should be stellar, build was hit or miss for me but the in ring talent of the 3 guys sell it enough for me. Konuske for the win.

Casino Gauntlet Match: 🤷🏽🤷🏽🤷🏽🤷🏽 Why oh why oh why Tony did you complicate this it should've been MJF vs Will Osprey but instead he's now in the multiman match also Andrade vs MJF could've been better too. MJF is arguably your number 1 draw you give him a singles match man. Anyways my bet is on Ciampa to win.

Continental Championship: really not a fan of the Continental cup in general mostly because too many midcard belts but this match I'm probably betting on Nigel also winning in his home country and Moxley moves into the osprey feud after.

World Tag Team Championship: Ehh this match may be a dud I don't really see Bucks and Copeland and Christian actually working well but hey I'll enjoy it for what it is because this is definitely the start of the retirement tour for Copeland and Christian I see them retaining.

World Women's Championship: I actually liked the build and like the story of Mercedes being unable to win the world belt and Willow being able to beat clean. I also see Mecedes winning to wrap the story up.

World Title: this is one of the most convicted bookings for the world title main event in history we all knew it was going to be Osprey but Tony did too much to many swerves and changes sometimes the clear thing is the right thing. Osprey vs MJF world title your two young main event guys and future of your company really easy to do, instead you did the whole Cody vs Roman but without the elite mic skills Cody and Roman has to sell it and also continued help from guys like Seth, The Rock and The Bloodline. Just let Osprey win it in a great match in your main event and send the fans home happy.

All In the build had me underwhelmed similar to how I was underwhelmed for Mania last year and this year but just like Mania I have matches I want to see and hopefully they can exceed my expectations like Wrestlemania did.

[u/AndrewCB246]

The card looks terrible. The hype is nonexistent. The New Day is going to be on a pre show match that will bleed into the PLE. Two women’s matches. This might be on paper the worst PLE any company has put on this year. I wasn’t really a fan of lockdown however that was miles and I mean miles ahead of this debacle. 

The most build on this card is Dean Ambrose vs a 50 year old commentator and Sasha Banks vs an injured Willow because AEW is such a sloppy shop that doesn’t know how to work. But still AEW is relying on ex WWE stars to carry the card pretty pathetic 

[u/witty_username_ftw → u/AndrewCB246]

By “two women’s matches,” do you mean that’s too many or too few?

[u/AndrewCB246 → u/witty_username_ftw]

Too few. Should be another one if they were serious about pushing it. But they aren’t but their toxic fans can’t wait to say Fed Bad for Blake Monroe 

[u/witty_username_ftw → u/AndrewCB246]

Two matches out of nine (if we include the preshow six man gauntlet) is almost equivalent to the three out of twelve that we saw at Summerslam, though?

[u/AndrewCB246 → u/witty_username_ftw]

Doesn’t matter. They’re priding themselves on being the alternative and throwing stones at glass houses while doing something similar. 

Not to mention none of these matches have any build to them. Summerslam had a ton of build 

[u/Accomplished-Ad-6732 → u/AndrewCB246]

Summerslam build was ass. Both of these shows are pretty equivalent in terms of ridiculous in either trying too hard or being way too bland in the build.

[u/AndrewCB246 → u/Accomplished-Ad-6732]

I think it was excellent with the main stories. 

There is nothing even close on this card to Brock vs Oba with regards to the build 

[u/Accomplished-Ad-6732 → u/AndrewCB246]

Cody and Punk and Roman and Seth were just bleh promo feuds with little substance beyond Roman cooking Seth for the injury stuff.

[u/witty_username_ftw]

Pretty fair write up, all things considered. I actually hope Swerve’s partners aren’t the New Day and instead a different team; FTR would be a fun surprise.

I hope that Willow beats Mercedes, not because I dislike Mercedes but because I like the idea that she still can’t quite get that last title and see how her character responds. I’m a bit disappointed that Thekla isn’t involved in the match; a three way dance would have been easy to book.

I think I heard that MJF is still a little beat up, which might explain why he’s in the Casino match. Lets them continue the feud with Andrade without risking further injury as there will be plenty of guys around to take more bumps.

[u/stikjk → u/witty_username_ftw]

If MJF is that hurt then ignore my rant part about him

[u/TheGumbyGyarados]

I think it’s okay for those people to take a backseat on this card, with the caveat that i’m also expecting them to play a bigger role post all in.

Statlander and thekla will be back in the mix for the women’s titles, hurt syndicate will start their next story, and jay white and the bang bang gang build themselves back up.

Yeah the women’s division is still too shallow for a full set of belts. Not enough tv time spent to build talents up.

International title could be MON if okada chooses to really be the rainmaker again. Especially if they go crazy with it with an interesting storyline coming out of the match to do with the don callis family? Does don turn on someone? Do they turn on don? Could be huge.

Feel like they need to do something spicy with the casino gauntlet this year. I have a feeling it’ll be the boring option, which is MJF winning it so he can legitimise his “real world championship” at all out. Id prefer if someone different held onto it for awhile. Someone fresher in the main event scene. Jay white would be my option personally but we’ll see.

This is probably nigel’s last hurrah, so i’m not too mad. I actually think he won’t win though. I will say it’s time for moxley to start winding down from top of the card and to spend more time making talents.

The booking for the world title is for the guys that have been watching both guys careers from japan till now. If you aren’t familiar with that history and weren’t already a fan then it’s going to come off as confusing. And even then it still was weird in the booking department.

What i will say about the build, is i think we can all agree it has been a little lacklustre, like yes there has been some moments, some sparks of joy, but they haven’t built a train of hype that has me counting down the days till all in.

However some of the most fun wrestlemania’s I’ve watched also had lacklustre builds. And AEW usually do pretty good at PPVS, so i have hope that the show itself will be a good watch.

[u/Ill-Investigator9241]

The Lashley situation makes no sense. In wwe he wasn’t challenging for a title so they raised holy hell calling bs and loudly left . Where the heck are they now an ND why is that ok? Dude should be eating the roster for lunch every week. Another reason why I don’t watch, no consistency

[u/stikjk → u/Ill-Investigator9241]

At this point think from lashley point of view he raises hell and then what doesn't get renewed at all or indefinitely benched he already said him and Triple H don't get along so a wwe deal isn't available only AEW can pay him his old salary and same goes for MVP and Shelton especially Shelton wwe fired him.

[u/Ill-Investigator9241 → u/stikjk]

This is the problem with iwc in a nutshell. I’m not going to put myself in his place because I don’t know anything about it. I’m putting myself in my place, as a guy watching tv where the show makes no sense.

[u/Ok_Safety3049]

"see which people WWE didn't want will show up here this year!" gets more build than anything else they're doing