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WOR Video: Fallout from AEW All Out

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Notes from AEW All Out on Wrestling Observer Radio.

Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer on Monday morning discussed the main event of the show, which saw Jon Moxley defeat Orange Cassidy to win the AEW International Championship. Despite that, the show ended with Orange Cassidy making it up back on his feet to a big ovation from the crowd.

“It didn’t feel like a sad ending to the pay-per-view. You knew the day was coming, you saw history, it went to a guy that’s a big star, and you got to give Orange his moment,” Alvarez said.

In the post-show press conference, there wasn’t much news. Khan did not talk about the situation with CM Punk. Christian Cage noted he had signed a new contract with the company. The gate for the show stands around $800,000, less than the $1 million Khan predicted last week.

“It’s okay,” Meltzer said. “US business is soft. Not that $800,000 is a bad gate. Again, in Chicago, you’d expect it at over a million.”

Bryan Danielson noted during the conference that he was cleared by both AEW’s medical staff and an outside surgeon, saying there was a lot of “smoke and mirrors” in his strap match against Ricky Starks.

Regarding Jack Perry, Khan said that he was “suspended indefinitely”.

Meltzer also brought up Ace Steel’s name, saying that “he’s in the same position that he was in three days ago”.

WOR Video: Shinsuke Nakamura attacks Seth Rollins on WWE Raw

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Shinsuke Nakamura ended Raw by becoming Seth Rollins’ next opponent for the World Heavyweight title.

On Monday’s Wrestling Observer Radio, Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer discussed the segment that set up the angle. Sami Zayn was attacked backstage by JD McDonagh, putting him out of the main evente teamign with Seth Rollins and Cody Rhodes against members of Judgment Day. Later, Nakamura offered to team with Rollins and Rhodes in the main event, which Rollins accepted.

“Man, there was no subtlety here whatsoever. Nakamura practically told you ‘I will be screwing these guys tonight,’ Alvarez said.

“That’s how I saw it. I thought it was very obvious. It made them, especially Seth, look very naive,” Meltzer said.

The three were eventually victorious, with Rhodes scoring the win on Finn Balor. After the match, there was dissension between Rollins and Rhodes, but they ended up celebrating on the turnbuckles. As Rollins jumped off the turnbuckle, Nakamura responded by laying out Rollins with the kinshasa, establishing himself as the next challenger for Rollins’ title.

“I’m not sure what’s going on here, but I thought when this was over that they wanted to do a tease of Cody vs. Seth. You kinda have to, as Cody just beat Brock [Lesnar],” Alvarez said.

“There’s a chance it turns into a three-way,” Meltzer said.

Alvarez thought that Rhodes shouldn’t challenge Rollins for the title unless it was eventually leading to a unification match down the line against Reigns, though that would risk setting up another unification match after having just unified the titles a couple of years ago. 

WOR Video: Fallout from AEW Dynamite

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Nick Wayne made his AEW debut, and Kota Ibushi is heading to Blood & Guts.

Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer discussed the big news coming from Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite. Prior to the main event segment. Nick Wayne made his AEW debut losing to Swerve Strickland. Dave thought it was a good, not great match, but wondered if having Wayne lose was the right call.

“He got over really big with the crowd,” he said. “The ringsiders were chanting for him…it would not have been my call for him to lose his debut. Swerve was more polished..the crowd really wanted him to win.”

The main event segment had Don Callis come out to announce his fifth member of the Blackpool Combat Club Blood & Guts team next week. Kenny Omega came out to confront Callis, but it ended up being a trap, with PAC making his return to attack Omega. Moxley, PAC, and Konosuke Takeshita were about to injure Omega when he told them to watch a video, which revealed Kota Ibushi as The Elite’s fifth member.

Meltzer has high expectations for the match, putting over the wrestlers involved.

“As far as the promise of the match goes, it could really be one the best matches of the year. It really could. The expectations are really high on that one.”

WOR Video: AEW Collision’s tough road

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AEW Collision’s ratings took another hit on Saturday, a sign that the show will continue to struggle in its Saturday slot.

On Wrestling Observer Radio Thursday morning, Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez talked about the ratings. While Raw did fine for a holiday weekend, Collision struggled with 452,000 viewers, down 24 percent from last week. The 0.13 number in 18-49 was down 38.1 percent. The numbers were virtually identical to Rampage’s number from the day before.

“It was the first time they went head-to-head with the UFC and they got killed,” Meltzer said. “Almost an identical rating to Rampage. That’s not good…it was a bad weekend for TV viewing, but that’s a scary drop.”

Collision faced tough competition on Saturday, going head-to-head with a UFC card. Furthermore, it started shortly after WWE’s Money in the Bank event ended.

“If you’re going to watch three in a half hours of a WWE pay-per-view, you’re probably not going to rush back and want to watch another show on a holiday weekend,” Meltzer said.

Collision will continue to face tough competition between regular UFC events on Saturdays and WWE pay-per-views once a month. On August 5, Collision will go face to face with not only a UFC event, but also WWE SummerSlam.

“That’s going to be a real tough week to draw,” Meltzer said.