AEW In will go down as one of the longest pro wrestling shows ever at just around eight hours if you include the two-hour pre-show.
The time, however, will just be a number after it also delivered one of the picture-perfect main events in pro wrestling history to bring so many stories, characters and moments full circle to end Jon Moxley’s 273-day reign of terror — the one that began a hard reboot of the company.
“Hangman” Adam Page’s redemption arc concluded in a Bloodline-style main event just filled with real blood in a Texas Death match. It ended a show that saw Adam Cole potentially staring at retirement, Dustin Rhodes finally winning AEW gold, the return of Adam Copeland to help Christian Cage, one of the best women’s matches of the year and a peek into the future with MJF and Athena both earning future world championship opportunities.
Here are five takeaways from All In, which clearly ran long to counterprogram WWE’s counterprograming of NXT’s Great American Bash and Saturday Night’s Main Event, in front of 25,671 fans at Globe Life Field on Saturday.
