AEW: Ranking every 2020 Pay-Per-View from worst to best

4. All Out

We start with an entry that’s uncomfortable, to say the least.

Fans and wrestlers alike have soured on this show, and for good reason. AEW has been criticized a lot for the decisions they made on this night, and I think it’s fair to say that this show won’t be a fond memory for fans.

This has to be one of, if not the darkest night in AEW’s short history.

So, let’s talk about the card.

Joey Janela defeated Serpentico and Private Party beat the Dark Order’s John Silver and Alex Reynolds in what were the only two matches on the pre-show, and they were fine for what they were.

We opened the main card with a Tooth and Nail match between Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D., and Big Swole. This was a cinematic match in Baker’s dentist’s office, it went for about 10 minutes, and it was fine for what it was. Both women trash-talked a lot, Reba got involved, only to be thrown in a dumpster.

Baker was portrayed as a creepy serial killer. Baker got an injection which ended up in her own thigh. Swole then made Baker sleep with anesthesia and pinned her. To be honest, it was a weird opener and as far as cinematic matches go, you can probably skip this one.

This was followed by what should’ve been, in my opinion, the opener. It was the Jurassic Express vs. the Young Bucks, the Bucks in full-on jerk mode.

This was a great match in which both Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus looked great. They both ran wild on the Bucks at different points. Marko Stunt got involved and ate a superkick from Matt for his efforts. Luchasaurus hit a massive dive and landed on the talent at ringside, he was taken out. Jungle Boy looked strong as he survived a Doomsday Device on the outside followed by a double superkick, but it didn’t last long as the Bucks hit the BTE Trigger for the win. A solid match.

The Casino Battle Royale came next, some highlights were Sonny Kiss eliminating Jake Hager, Santana and Ortiz brawling with Best Friends, and Will Hobbs getting the rub from Brian Cage and Lance Archer as a big man to look out for in the future. Matt Sydal’s first Shooting Star Press in AEW was botched, and his landing was a bit scary, but not the scariest thing on the show by far.

It wasn’t even the scariest spot in the match. That came when Brian Cage put Darby Allin in a body bag filled with thumbtacks and threw it out on the ramp. I would’ve personally given Darby a “Please Don’t Die” if I was there. The final two were Lance Archer and Eddie Kingston. I think a lot of us wanted Kingston to win, but Archer ended up eliminating him and getting the win. He was a good choice though, and Kingston got to moan about the fact that he wasn’t eliminated as he went under the top rope.

And then came the match because of which this show will always be remembered in infamy. The Broken Rules match between Matt Hardy and Sammy Guevara. After a bit of brawling, both Sammy and Matt end up on a scissor lift, and Sammy spears Matt onto a table below, but they miss it, and Matt’s head hits hard on the concrete floor.

It has to be one of the scariest moments in wrestling history. Matt was totally out of it. He didn’t move for a couple of minutes and seemed dazed and glassy-eyed for the rest of the match.

That’s right. The match continued.

It was initially called off after Matt couldn’t even walk properly, but it abruptly continued and was rushed to the finish, which involved Sammy helping Matt climb another tall structure (During which he slipped twice.) and then pushing Sammy off to win the match.

Why Matt was allowed to continue is beyond me. I guess the less said about this match the better, and the rest of the show had it extremely tough already.

The next match was Hikaru Shida vs. Thunder Rosa for the AEW Women’s title, and hats off to these two women for following that disaster of a match. Shida and Rosa had a really good match, but Matt Hardy still lingered in everyone’s thoughts. While the wrestling was technical and excellent, fans cringed at a Death Valley Driver to Shida on the apron and held their breaths when Shida hit a Meteora and Rosa’s head just missed hitting a step. Overall, the match was good and it put Thunder Rosa on the map.

This was followed by two great tag matches.

An 8-man tag featuring the TNT Champion Brodie Lee (Rest in Power), Evil Uno, Stu Grayson, and Colt Cabana against Scorpio Sky, Dustin Rhodes, QT Marshall, and Matt Cardona. Dustin rolled up Cabana to get the win and Brodie Lee was furious.

After that, the match of the night, in my opinion. FTR vs Adam Page and Kenny Omega for the tag belts. This would’ve been a classic if not for the reported humidity and the Matt Hardy situation. It was a brilliant match that played off the tension between Omega and Page while also showing FTR at their heelish best. Omega accidentally hit the V Trigger on Page, and then FTR hit two assisted Piledrivers on Page to win the titles.

Then, Orange Cassidy defeated Chris Jericho in the Mimosa Mayhem match. It was a good match and Cassidy looked like a star when he dunked Jericho in the vat of mimosa.

And then the main event, Jon Moxley vs. MJF for the AEW title. This match was awesome, probably MJF’s best AEW match. A lot of people still believe MJF should’ve won the match, but Moxley did use a banned move to beat him so he’ll always have that to talk about.

On the whole, this was a good show, but it’ll sadly never be remembered as one.