September 9, 2019 Observer Newsletter: AEW All Out review, Chris Jericho title saga, more
All Elite Wrestling ran its second PPV show, All Out, which was a mostly hot show before a sold out Sears Center in Chicago.
The event, which had the largest initial ticket demand for any pro wrestling event ever held in North America, a stat, that because it was with a new promotion and made no sense logically t happen, infuriated people beyond reason. The show established a number of things.
First, the company is loaded with talent, many of whom, like Jack Evans and Scorpio Sky, don’t get nearly their due. The show featured arguably the best ladder match in history, a series of car crashes where Pentagon Jr. & Fenix retained the AAA tag titles over The Young Bucks.
This is the last those belts will be talked about on the show, as all concentration will be on the AEW tag team titles which will be decided in a tournament over the first four weeks of television.
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Dave Meltzer is the founder and lead writer on the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the weekly constant when it comes to news and reviews in pro wrestling and mixed martial arts for more than 40 years. Dave also co-hosts Wrestling Observer Radio with Bryan Alvarez and had had bylines for The National, Yahoo Sports, MMA Fighting and others.