All Out’s main event was originally supposed to be the AEW championship unification match between interim champ Jon Moxley and champion CM Punk. Those plans changed a week and half ago when Mox and Punk put it all on the line on Dynamite. Moxley prevailed. One week later the new champ issued an open contract. After a pep talk from his long time friend and trainer, CM Punk answered the call. And now here we are with Punk as the underdog in his home town.
At the bell, Mox took a seat in the middle of the ring and flipped Punk the bird. Punk chopped Mox into the corner, but the champ reversed and hammered away with shots of his own. Punk connected with a roundhouse kick and followed with knee strikes. He rained down elbows and followed with the GTS. Mox barely kicked out before the three count.
Mox went to the floor to collect himself, but Punk caught him with a suicide dive. The two fought into the crowd. Punk whipped the champ into the ring steps. Mox fought off a GTS and slammed Punk into the ring post, busting him open. Mox licked Punk’s blood off his arm after opening him up even more.
Back in the ring, Mox kicked Punk into the corner before hammering him with mounted punches, focusing on the open wound. Mox invited Punk to chop away at him. They had no effect. Punk countered with a rising knee strike; Mox countered a bulldog with a knee breaker. Jon locked in a Gable grip on Punk’s foot. The champ locked in a single crab and then transitioned into heel hook. Punk gouged at Mox’s eyes to break the hold. Mox locked Punk in the ropes to deliver a drop kick to the leg. He followed with a dragon screw. Mox locked in a figure four. Punk just flipped him off. The champ hit a piledriver. A drug Punk to the apron, looking for another piledriver. A desperate Punk dropped to the floor and slammed Mox’s shoulder into the apron.
Back in the ring, Moxley ran into a boot and Punk slammed him into the ring post. The challenger locked in the anaconda vice. Mox broke free by biting Punk’s forehead. Mox stomped on Punk’s face. The champ wanted the King Kong lariat, but Punk ducked it. He willed himself to the top turnbuckle and was able to deliver the flying elbow drop, but the champ countered into the bulldog choke. Punk was able to get out with an arm drag. Mox locked in the Bulldog choke again. Punk kicked his way out, so Mox applied an ankle lock. Punk was able to get a rope break.
After a German suplex, Mox flipped off the crowd. Punk connected with a roundhouse kick, but Moxley was able to answer back with a clothesline. Mox dropped out of the GTS. The two traded shots again in the middle of the ring. Punk hit a neck breaker. Moxley blocked the GTS and hit the Death Rider. Punk kicked out at the last moment.
Mox returned to the hammer and anvil elbow strikes. Punk got locked in the Bulldog choke again. Punk was able to pick up Mox and hits the GTS. Punk couldn’t get the pin after dropping to his knees. Punk hit the GTS again and covered for the three count.
After the match, the arena went dark. A voice mail from Tony Khan to MJF played, revealing Khan asked Max to return and be in the Casino ladder match. MJF then revealed himself on video and walked out on stage. Punk held his title aloft in the ring, while MJF flipped off the crowd.
The next AEW PPV is Full Gear on Saturday, November 19th.
All Out Zero Hour Pre-show
Tay Melo and Sammy Guevara (champions) vs. Ruby Soho and Ortiz (challengers) – AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championship Match
Due to technical difficulties I missed most of this match. From what I can put together thanks to to twitter Tay hit Soho with a superplex to the floor, taking out both Ortiz and Sammy. Anna Jay got involved, helping Tay and Sammy return.
Winners…and still Tay Melo and Sammy Guevara…via pinfall: Tay Melo and Sammy Guevara
Cool Hand Angelo Parker w/Matt Menard vs. Hook – FTW Championship Match
Angelo connects with a drop kick to the face, and then he taunts Hook. I wouldn’t suggest that. Hook answers with a head butt. Menard grans his ankle, so Hook stomps on his fingers. Hook with a throw and follows with an exploder. Parker lands a kick to the face. Hook locks in a choke and Parker immediately taps.
Winner…and still FTW champion…via submission: Hook
After the match, Menard attacks Hook from behind. Action Bronson comes out of the crowd to make the save. Cool Hand and Daddy Magic retreat to the back.
Kip Sabian vs. Pac – All-Atlantic Championship Match
Sabian catches Pac with a straight kick to the face and pounds him into the corner. Pac with a body slam, but gets caught climbing the turnbuckle. Sabian kicks Pac off the apron. Kip hits a springboard moonsault off the top rope. Pac hits a brain buster on the floor and then drop kicks Sabian in the back of the head back in the ring. Kip is laid low by forearm strikes. Sabian with a knee strike and hits a dragon suplex. Kip hits a DDT out of the corner and slingshots off the ropes into a brain buster. Pac kicks out at two. Pac slams Sabian to the mat. He goes up top and hits the Black Arrow and gets the pin.
Winner…and still All-Atlantic Champion…via pinfall: Pac
After the match, Tony Schiavone gets a word with Pac after a successful title defense in the US. He barely gets a word out when he is cut off by Orange Cassidy’s music. Pac flat out tells him, NO! He calls him a joke, telling him to get to the back of the line and walks off. While in the ring, Kip is arguing the box he was wearing over his head the last few months.
Eddie Kingston vs. Tomohiro Ishii
Tomohiro Ishii takes a swing at Eddie Kingston at AEW All Out at the Now Arena, in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, Sunday, September 4, 2022. Photo by George Tahinos, https://georgetahinos.smugmug.com MORE PHOTOS IN OUR ALL OUT GALLERY
The two trade chops until Eddie chest is bright red. Kingston fires back with a two handed chop that sends Ishii to the mat. Tomohiro chops back sending Eddie to the mat. Kingston with a underhook suplex. He follows with a suplex. Ishii with a suplex and goes for the pin; Eddie kicks out. A kick to the back fired Eddie up. The two trade slaps in the middle of the ring. Kingston shoulder gives out on a move. Kingston was faking; hits an exploder and a back drop. Ishii with a lariat. The two hit simultaneous lariats and both men hit the mat. Ishii runs into a lariat. Kingston covers for two. Ishii blocks the backfist; hitting an enzuigiri. Ishii with a lariat, but only scores a two count. Kingston with a Northern light bomb and covers to get the win.
Winner via pinfall: Eddie Kingston
After the match, Eddie shows respect to Ishii.
All Out
Casino Ladder Match
Wheeler Yuta and Rey Fenix are the first two in the ring. One of the big wrinkles in this match, is that not all participants have come out before anyone can grab the poker chip hanging above the ring. So, yes, the match could end before all participants have entered. Wheeler knocks Fenix into a ladder on the floor. Rush walks out on stage as the next entrance, but doesn’t seem to be in a hurry as Yuta is setting up a ladder in the middle of the ring. Fenix slows him down. Rush suplexes Wheeler into a ladder. Andrade El Idolo is the next man in. Rush sets up a ladder, he backs off when he sees Andrade. They set up a ladder on the apron to the barrier and whip Fenix into it. Yuta and Andrade fight atop the ladder in the ring. Andrade powerbombs Yuta into a ladder set up on the ropes.
Claudio Castagnoli runs in next. He checks on Wheeler. He grabs Andrade on the ladder and tips it forward. He tips it to the side, sending Andrade to the floor. Dante Martin is in next. A leaps over a ladder strike from Rey and Claudio. Martin dumps Rey and Claudio from the ring. Wheeler sets up a ladder and Martin springboards to the middle of the ladder. Martin is thrown from the ring, but takes Castagnoli with him.
Penta el Zero Miedo enters and hits Martin with a destroyer on the ramp. He hits Castagnoli with a backstabber. Andrade stops Penta on the apron, looking for a death valley driver. Fenix cuts off Rush in the ring, allowing Penta to hit Andrade with a destroyer on a ladder. Fenix takes flight, putting Rush through a table with a frog splash. Dante Martin leaps off the ropes and over Claudio on the ladder. He fights Wheeler on the top, until the ladder is tipped over by two masked men. One climbs the ladder and takes the chip. It’s Stokely Hathaway. Everyone he has recruited is in the ring.
The Joker walks out. Another masked man walks to the ring and Hathaway hands him the chip; ending the match. The Joker teases removing the mask, but instead waves his finger at the crowd and walks to the back.
Winner: The Joker
Match rating 2.5/5
The Joker and Stokely Hathaway at AEW All Out at the Now Arena, in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, Sunday, September 4, 2022. Photo by George Tahinos, https://georgetahinos.smugmug.com MORE PHOTOS IN OUR ALL OUT GALLERY
The Dark Order (Alex Reynolds and Jon Silver) and Hangman Adam Page vs. The Young Bucks (Matt and Nick Jackson) and Kenny Omega – Trios Championship Tournament Finals
Nick Jackson and Hangman duck and dodge each others moves, before giving each other a fist bump of respect. Alex Reynolds doesn’t get the same respect from Matt, who spits in his face. Hangman stops Silver and Reynolds from stomping on Matt’s inured back. Page tags in and Omega gets the tag. The two takes their time before locking up. Sliver makes the blind tag, and Hangman isn’t happy about that. Silver targets Omega’s shoulder. Page questions Silver, who tells him they are trying to win. Page chops Kenny, who kicks him in the gut. Hangman with a massive kick, and then takes out Matt on the apron. Nick kicks Page coming out of the corner. Page takes a senton on the floor and Matt takes out Silver and Reynolds on the other side of the floor. Omega whips Page into the corner and works him over. Hangman fights out of the corner and hits a Death Valley Driver on Omega.
Silver gets the tag, kicking Matt on the turnbuckle. He then kicks Cutler on the floor and Nick, but runs into a kick from Matt from the apron. Back in the ring, Silver with a pump kick and hits the Spin Doctor. Kenny Omega breaks up the pin. Matt with a double Northern Light suplex to the Dark Order boys. Omega hits diving cross body a silver and hits snap dragon suplex on Reynolds. Kenny counters Silver with a snap dragon. Page hits Omega with a lariat in the corner. Silver with a German suplex and Reynolds with a jackknife cover. Omega kicks out. Silver is grabbed from the apron, has Reynolds and Page take superkicks. Silver is hit with the V-Trigger. Omega flies over the top ropes to take out all three men. Matt Jackson tags in and looks for the powerbomb. Reynolds counters and Matt gets kicked in the face by his teammates. Matt is lifted up and Silver hits the pendulum bomb. The cover is made, but Nick throws himself into the ring to break the hold. Superkicks all around and the Bucks and Dark Order are all down in the ring. Page and Omega are separated by the ref, because they are not the legal men. The drag their teammates to the corners and make a tag.
They two trade punches and then elbows. Omega with a V Trigger and a Tiger Driver 98. Hangman kicks out. Omega goes up top, and Page meets him there. Hangman with a flipping slam off the top. He follows with a Buckshot to the back of the head. Matt Jackson grabs Page. Omega drops down, avoiding another Buckshot. Nick hits Page with one of his own and all three hit the BTE Trigger. Reynolds break the pin. Silver gets caught by Kenny, but Reynolds pulls the Bucks out of the ring. Silver eats a V Trigger, but counters the One Winged Angel into a roll up. Omega kicks out. Page goes for another Buckshot, but inadvertently hits Silver. Nick grabs Page so he can’t break up the pin by Omega. Kenny gets the three count and the win.
The Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson) & Kenny Omega win the AEW Trios Championship Tournament Finals at AEW All Out at the Now Arena, in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, Sunday, September 4, 2022. Photo by George Tahinos, https://georgetahinos.smugmug.com MORE PHOTOS IN OUR ALL OUT GALLERY
Winners…and new Trios Tag Team Champions…by pinfall: Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks
Match rating: 4.5/5
Athena (challenger) vs. Jade Cargill (champion) w/Keira Hogan and Leila Grey – TBS Championship Match
Jade Cargill at AEW All Out at the Now Arena, in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, Sunday, September 4, 2022. Photo by George Tahinos, https://georgetahinos.smugmug.com MORE PHOTOS IN OUR ALL OUT GALLERY
Jade Cargill sporting some She-Hulk inspired ring gear. Athena chases off the baddies, but then runs into a Samoan drop on the ring. Athena pops up, but runs right into a spear. Jade tosses Athena
across the ring. Athena with a spring board cross body and then goes up. Cargill blocks the cutter, but eats a thrust kick. Hogan pulls Athena off the turnbuckle and gets kicked in the face for her efforts. Cargill hits Jaded and covers to get the win.
Winner…and still TBS Champion…via pinfall: Jade Cargill
Match rating: 2.5/5
Alex Marvez tracked down CM Punk earlier in the day and wants to know if he is 100%. Punk tells him that Moxley isn’t just fighting him; he’s fighting all of Chicago.
Jay Lethal and the Motor City Machineguns (Alex Shelley and Chris Saban) w/Sanjay Dutt and Satnam Singh vs. Wardlow and FTR
Jay Lethal spits in Wardlow’s face, which is something I wouldn’t recommend. Saban tags in, so Wardlow tags in Dax. Saban goes in for a hand shake, but then shoves Harwood in his face. A shoulder block takes down Saban and a right hand takes down Shelley. Harwood goes after Dutt on the floor; Dutt runs away and into the ring. Saban hits Dax with a cutter. FTR double teams Shelly. Cash cuts off Shelley from his corner and brings in Wardlow. He shrugs off a chop. Saban tries to leap in. Wardlow catches him and hits double suplex. Harwood locks in a sharp shooter. Dutt runs interference as the MCM team up a Dax. Wheeler saves his partner from a pin. Lethal and Harwood trade chops. Lethal shove Dax into the corner. Dax ducks a kick from Saban, who accidently kicks Shelley. Wheeler tags in, hitting a knee lift and back elbow. A lariat lays out Shelley. Wheeler with a reverse slam. Wardlow comes in to clear out the ring. Shelley with a drop kick to the knee of Wheeler. Lethal whips the leg into the ring post and Saban follows suit. Lethal tags in and locks in the Figure Four on Cash. Wheeler gets to the ropes to break the hold. Wheeler with a back breaker to Saban on his bad knee, though.
Wardlow tags and everyone gets a chokeslam. He hits Jay with the F-10. FTR is yanked off the ring. Wardlow tries to bring the Guns in, but Satnam punches him. Lethal still can’t get the pin. Saban takes out FTR with a suicide dive, as Wardlow is tied in the tree of woe. Saban hits a leaping drop kick. Lethal drops the elbow, but Wardlow kicks out. Dax hits Saban with slingshot Liger bomb. Shelly eats the Big Rig, but Lethal hits FTR with the Lethal Injections. Wardlow with a lariat and pulls down the straps. Wardlow hits one power bomb. He is warming up and wants to conduct the symphony. He hits another powerbomb. Wardlow conducts a third and fourth movement. He covers Lethal and gets the pin.
Winners via pinfall: Wardlow and FTR
Match rating 3/5
After the match, ROH TV champion, Samoa Joe charges the ring. He takes out Singh and throws Dutt into the ring with Wardlow and FTR. Dax Harwood’s daughter runs into the ring. She breaks Dutt’s pencil and Harwood punches him in the face. His daughter makes a pin with her foot and the ref makes the three count.
Powerhouse Hobbs vs. Ricky Starks
Hobbs takes Starks down, shoving his face into the ring ropes. Starks fights his way out of the corner. Hobbs tosses Ricky out of the ring, after dodging a spear. Hobbs pounds on Starks on the top turnbuckle and then kicks him in the face. Starks hits a DDT out of the corner. Hobbs with a back drop but Ricky lands on his feet, unfortunately he runs right into a spine buster. Hobbs covers and gets the three count.
Winner via pinfall: Powerhouse Hobbs
Match rating: 3/5
The Acclaimed (challengers) w/Billy Gunn vs. Swerve in our Glory (champions) – AEW World Tag Team Championship Match
Bowens and Strickland trade mat wrestling moves as the Chicago crowd gets itself over. Lee and Caster tag in. Lee leap frogs him and Caster slams on the brakes at the ropes. Max kicks Lee into the corner and hits a hurricanrana. Caster avoids the double hand chop. The champs have to regroup, giving the Acclaimed a chance to scissor. Keith Lee won’t be suckered in by a hand shake and lays out Caster. Strickland with a flying uppercut to Max. Lee tags in, with the double chop. Caster with a diving cutter on Lee. Bowens gets the tag, but Lee is able to get to Strickland. Bowens hits a neck breaker and an elbow strike. He hits a vertical suplex. Swerve runs into a boot, but then hits Bowen’s, who knee buckles. Bowen is able to hit a knee lift, but grabs his knee. Gunn gives him some encouragement. Swerve tosses Bowens over the top ropes and he crashes hard to the floor. Swerve with a kick through the ropes and gives Gunn and crotch chop. Swerve goes after the knee and tags in Lee, who hits a knee breaker. Bowens struggles to get to his feet as Lee splashes him in the corner. Bowens is sent flying across the ring. Bowens with forearms shots and hits a flipping neck breaker. Caster gets the hot tag. Swerve is sent over the top rope and Caster hits him with a flying elbow. He hits Lee with a diving cross body, but only gets a two count. Bowens is hobbling in the ring. Caster tries to pick up Lee and fails. Caster avoids a pounces and Lee crashes into Swerve. Bowens with a knee strike, but Caster only gets a two count. Bowens knee gives out on him, allowing Lee to go up top. Caster meets him up top. Bowens joins him for a double team. The superplex Lee. Strickland hits a stomp from up top, but Bowens kicks out at two. Swerve with a single leg Boston crab on Bowens. Caster breaks the hold with a missile drop kick. Max makes the tag. Swerve with a kick to the head, but only gets a two count. Bowens yanks Swerve off the apron and sets him up for the Mic Drop to the floor from Max. All four men roll into the ring. Billy Gunn leaps to the apron and Lee has words with him. Caster with a thrust kick to Lee and Max picks him up. He slams Lee to the mat. Bowens with a sideslam to Swerve. Caster hits the mic drop and Lee breaks up the pin and the last moment. Swerve hits Caster with a Death Valley drive on the apron and hits Bowens with a back breaker in the ring. Lee tags in and Bowens fights them both off. Bowens collapses causing Swerve to kick Lee. Bowens with a roll up, but Lee kicks out at two. Bowens leaps on top of Lee, but gets caught. Lee sets him up and Swerve delivers the stomp off the turnbuckle. Lee covers and gets the three count.
Winners…and still AEW Tag Team Champions…via pinfall: Swerve in Our Glory
Match rating: 4.5/5
After the match, Billy Gunn finds himself in the ring with the champs. Lee offers the scissors to Gunn and the Acclaimed in a show of respect.
Toni Storm vs. Jamie Hayter vs. Hikura Shida vs. Dr. Britt Baker w/Rebel – AEW Interim Women’s World Championship Match
Jamie Hayter at AEW All Out at the Now Arena, in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, Sunday, September 4, 2022. Photo by George Tahinos, https://georgetahinos.smugmug.com MORE PHOTOS IN OUR ALL OUT GALLERY
Shida and Baker square off while Storm and Hayter fight in the other corner. Baker and Shida go to the floor, as Storm kicks Hayter. Baker trips up Storm, yanking her from the ring. Shida hits Baker with a blind side shot. All four women trade pin attempts. Hayter has Shida in a single leg crab, as Storm tries to lock in a hold on her. Shida avoids the lock jaw, but eats a sling blade. Hayter with a right elbow to Hikura. Hayter with a double back suplex to Shida and Storm. She follows with a double lariat to both. Storms sends Jamie to the floor and wipes her out with a suicide dive. Baker hits Toni with a sling blade. Shida takes out Baker.
Shida and Storm face off in the ring, trading shots. Rebel gets involved, only to get head butted by both women. Hayter and Baker toss Shida from the ring and team up on Storm. They then go after Shida on the floor. Hayter carries Shida up the ramp and dumps her on the stage. Baker with a stomp and then tosses a kendo stick on her.
Back in the ring, Hayter chokes Storm with the tag rope. Shida is helped to the back by AEW officials. A drop toe hold sends Baker into teh turnbuckle. Storm hits Hayter with a diving cross body. Baker and Hayter double team Storm. Shida makes her return, wielding two kendo sticks. She goes to work on Hayter and Baker. Shida unleashes strikes in the corner. Baker is suplexed into Jamie and then suplex Hayter back into the ring. Hayter counters the Katana. Baker with a thrust kick to Shida. Storm catches Baker with a running kick. Shida with a Falcon arrow to Hayter. Storm breaks the pin and hits a German suplex. Hayter with a tombstone piledriver to Storm. Shida breaks the pin with a meteora of the turnbuckle. Baker stomps Shida, but Hikura kicks out. Baker brings out the glove, but Toni tosses her out of the ring. Hayter dumps Storm to the floor. Hayter with a rip cord lariat. She covers, but Baker pulls the ref out of the ring. Jamie is furious. Storm with the Storm Zero. Baker steals the cover, but Hayter kicks out. Storm with a DDT to Baker and Hayter. Storm covers and gets the three count.
Winner…and new Interim AEW Women’s World Champion…via pinfall: Toni Storm
Match rating: 2.5/5
Christian Cage vs. Jungle Boy Jack Perry
Christian Cage at AEW All Out at the Now Arena, in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, Sunday, September 4, 2022. Photo by George Tahinos, https://georgetahinos.smugmug.com MORE PHOTOS IN OUR ALL OUT GALLERY
Christian sees Jack’s family in the front row and approaches them. Mrs. Perry smacks him across the face. When Perry makes his entrance, Luchasaurus walks out and chokeslams him off the stage on steel grate. Luchasaurus clears out the medical personnel and carries JB to the ring. He power bombs Jack through a ring side table as Cage barks orders. Perry pulls himself up in the ring and the bell rings. Christian with a spear, but JB kicks out. Cage hits the Kill Switch, but Perry can’t kick out of this pin. Christian gets the three count.
Winner via pinfall: Christian Cage
Match rating: 3/5
Alex Marvez is backstage with Death Triangle and the Best Friends and Danhousen. They will be facing each other on Dynamite.
Lionheart Chris Jericho vs. Bryan Danielson
Chris Jericho goes back in time to become Lionheart again at AEW All Out at the Now Arena, in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, Sunday, September 4, 2022. Photo by George Tahinos, https://georgetahinos.smugmug.com MORE PHOTOS IN OUR ALL OUT GALLERY
Danielson is able to take down Jericho and stomp him in the face. Chris is able to bail out of the ring. Jericho avoids a chop in the corner and delivers one of his own. Danielson with a wrist lock. Jericho reverses. Danielson with a back suplex. Bryan backs off. Danielson bridges out of a head scissors and looks to lock in a surfboard. Jericho blocks it, so Danielson just drills him in the knees. The two trade strikes on the mat, with Danielson gaining the advantage. Bryan looks for an armbar, but Jericho is able block. Chris rains down elbow strikes and Danielson. Jericho and Bryan trade palm strikes to the chest. Jericho hits a back breaker. Bryan goes to the floor. Jericho launches himself over the top rope and right into a knee strike. Danielson ascends the top rope and connects with a missile drop kick. Bryan with the kicks, but Jericho counters into a roll up. He looks for the Lion Tamer, but Danielson fights his way out. He kicks Jericho into the corner. Jericho counters a hurricanrana into the Walls of Jericho. Bryan rolls through and into and inside cradle. Jericho kicks out. Danielson with a suicide dive to Jericho on the floor. Jericho sweeps out Danielson’s legs on the top turnbuckle. A head butt drops Jericho to the mat. Danielson misses a diving head butt. Jericho catches the knees on a Lionsault. Danielson gets catapulted over the top rope, but hangs on, skins the cat and looks for the tombstone piledriver. Jericho reverses and hits the piledriver. He follows with a lionsault, but can’t get the pin.
Jericho with a running punt to the face. Danielson counters the Juda Effect with a big kick. Bryan vows to kick in Jericho’s head. He follows through, hammering Jericho’s head into the mat. Bryan applies the Lebell Lock. Jericho tries to get to the ropes. Bryan hooks him and changes directions, keeping Jericho away from the ropes. Danielson rolls Jericho back into the middle of the ring, but Jericho is able to escape. The Walls of Jericho are locked in; Bryan is able to flip over on his back and locks in a triangle. They both grab the ropes.
Jericho gets a shot in on the break. Jericho with a shot that takes down Bryan. Chris locks in the Lion Tamer. Bryan is able to get to the ropes to break the hold. Jericho with a release German suplex and follows with hammer and anvil elbows. Danielson lands on his feet on a German suplex. He hits the Psycho Knee and locks in the Cattle Mutalation. Danielson then rains down elbow shots. Bryan goes back to the Cattle Mutalation. Jericho is able to get to the ropes with his foot. Jericho nearly gets a surprise roll up. Danielson with a rolling elbow strike and rains down elbow shots again. Jericho with a mule kick low blow behind the ref’s back. Jericho hits the Judas Effect and gets the cover for the three count.
Winner via pinfall: Chris Jericho
Match rating: 3.5/5
Daniel Garcia, watching backstage, doesn’t look happy; while the rest of the JAS celebrate with their leader.
The House of Black (Malakai Black, Brody King and Buddy Matthews) w/Julia Hart vs. Miro, Sting and Darby Allin
The House of Black at AEW All Out at the Now Arena, in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, Sunday, September 4, 2022. Photo by George Tahinos, https://georgetahinos.smugmug.com MORE PHOTOS IN OUR ALL OUT GALLERY
Miro doesn’t even wait for his partners to enter the ring, just flat out taunting the House of Black. Once the match starts, Miro is out here just handing out beatings. Malakai tags in and picks Miro apart with strikes and kicks. Buddy Matthews tags in and gets thrown across the ring. Darby wants in, but Miro isn’t having it. He plants Matthews into the mat. Miro snubs Allin and again. Buddy with a jawbreaker, allowing Allin to make a blind tag. Black tosses Allin into the corner and stomps away at him. Malakai with a running knee strike. King gets the tag, manhandling Darby. Allin is chopped off the top ropes to the floor. King slams him into the security barrier.
Back in the ring, Allin finds himself in the wrong corner. He tries to fight his way out, but Matthews prevents him form making a tag. Sting is taken out with a cheap shot. Allin finally makes a tag to Miro, but the ref didn’t see it. Allin gets a tag to Sting, as Miro takes a round kick on the floor. Sting delivers Stinger Splashes to King and Matthews. He then trips King into Matthews. He sends King to the floor. Sting tosses Buddy into the corner; he wants Malakai. Black tags in and the two face off. They trade blows. Malakai with a kick to the ribs. Sting cinches in the Scorpion Death Lock. He doesn’t break the hold, even when attacked by King and Matthews. Black counters into a knee bar. Miro pulls Black by his hair to the ropes. Matthews kicks Miro. Sting fights out of a trople team and tags in Allin. A scorpion death drop is follows by a Coffin drop by Allin, but King kicks out. Mito with a leaping thrust kick to King. Miro runs around the ring to attack Buddy, who cuts him down with a shot from Sting’s bat. Allin with a stunner to Matthews and follows with a cannonball suicide dive. Sting and Black are alone in the ring. Sting spits black mist in Malakai’s face. Allin runs in and makes the pin for the three count.
Winners via pinfall: Miro, Sting and Darby Allin
Match rating 2.5/5
Tony Schiavone gets a word with Daniel Garcia, but Chris Jericho cuts him off and wants to know why he wasn’t at the celebration. Garcia tells Jericho he let him down by cheating. Next week, when Garcia takes on Wheeler Yuta for the ROH Pure title the JAS will not be there to back him up. He will win, but he will do it alone.
CM Punk (challenger) vs. Jon Moxley (champion) – AEW World Championship
Winner…and new AEW World Champion…via pinfall: CM Punk
Match rating: 3.5/5
TOP PHOTO: CM Punk after winning at AEW All Out. Photo by George Tahinos, https://georgetahinos.smugmug.com
AEW All Out
NOW Arena, Chicago, Illinios
All Out was a very inconsistent show. There were several great matches, looking you Trios Tournament final and AEW Tag team championship match. The main event also delivered. Although, there should have been an audible called to have the Acclaimed capture their first title. And then there were matches that should have been on Dynamite or even Rampage; looking at you House of Black. The Casino ladder match’s ending was saved by the reveal at the end of the show that the mysterious masked Joker was actually MJF. Not that we didn’t figure it out.