AEW All Out: 5 Things that must not happen at the PPV

All Elite Wrestling must avoid these blunders at All Out
All Elite Wrestling must avoid these blunders at All Out

All Elite Wrestling's next major PPV of the year, All Out, the successor to All In, is drawing nearer and fans all over the world are excited about this auspicious occasion. AEW is quite possibly the talk of the town in the pro-wrestling community right now and with the promotion debuting their weekly show later this year, wrestling fans are in for a treat. When All Out was announced, fans already knew that it would be a big event and tickets sold out in 15 minutes.

The event will take place in Chicago, and rumors have been doing the rounds that CM Punk will make his debut and pro-wrestling return at the All Out PPV. A new AEW World Champion will be crowned on Saturday night and a contender for the Women's World Championship will be revealed as well. Furthermore, feuds will be settled and rivals will clash at the PPV. There's no reason not to be excited for this PPV if you're a fan of AEW.

However, here are five things that must not happen at the PPV.


#5 The Young Bucks defeating The Lucha Brothers

The Young Bucks will challenge The Lucha Bros. for the AAA World Tag Team Championships
The Young Bucks will challenge The Lucha Bros. for the AAA World Tag Team Championships

The former AAA World Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks, refer to themselves as the 'best tag team in the world' and they have stated multiple times that they want to make tag team wrestling a big deal in the industry. But apparently, their way of making it a "big deal" is by staying on top of the tag team division.

Matt and Nick Jackson are the Executive Vice Presidents of AEW, and they'll be challenging Pentagón Jr. and Rey Fénix (known as the Lucha Brothers) for the AAA World Tag Team Championships; titles that are commissioned to another wrestling promotion. At Double or Nothing, the Bucks took on the Lucha Brothers for the titles and they came out on top.

Very soon AEW will need to establish their own tag titles, which should be won by The Young Bucks, so it makes sense for the Lucha Brothers to retain their titles in the ladder match and establish themselves as one of the best tag teams on the roster.

However, if the Bucks come out with the win once again, it might look like they booked themselves to win, and that's something they should avoid.

#4 Brandi Rhodes winning the 21-Woman Casino Battle Royale

AEW Chief Brand Officer and wrestler Brandi Rhodes
AEW Chief Brand Officer and wrestler Brandi Rhodes

Brandi Rhodes and 20 other women will take part in the Casino Battle Royale on the pre-show where the winner will receive a match for the inaugural AEW Women's World Championship on AEW's weekly TV show.

Brandi is not the most experienced in-ring performer on the women's roster, and right now AEW needs to build stars, and many of them won't feel happy if the company's Chief Brand Officer wins the battle royale and becomes a contender for the Women's World title.

The promotion has a lot of talented female wrestlers and a lot of them will benefit from this opportunity. Brandi doesn't need the win, and she isn't ready yet. AEW even sent out a tweet on Twitter asking fans if Brandi Rhodes should be crowned the inaugural AEW Women's World Champion and most of the responses were negative.

If the promotion makes the mistake of booking her to win the battle royale, leading to her becoming the maiden champion, fans won't be happy and for a rising promotion like AEW, that won't be a good thing.

#3 Crowning the wrong AEW World Champion

One of these men will become the first AEW World Champion. Let's hope it will be the right one
One of these men will become the first AEW World Champion. Let's hope it will be the right one

AEW will crown their first World Champion this Saturday night, and it's a big deal for any promotion when they crown their first World Champion.

Since the title will be the top prize in the promotion, it's only fitting that the first person to hold it is someone worthy. Hangman Page will face the Ayatollah of Rock 'n' Rolla Chris Jericho and one of them will walk out with the gold.

But who should it be? AEW's biggest star is none other than Chris Jericho. Y2J is known all over the world for his time in WWE where he accomplished what many would only dream of. He was the first Undisputed WWE Champion, he's a former Intercontinental, United States, WWE Tag Team and World Tag Team Champion. His accomplishments speak for themselves.

Thus, he's the only worthy option to become the first-ever AEW World Champion. He will make the title prestigious and it will become the top prize that it's meant to be. Hangman Page, unfortunately, hasn't been booked to look like a threat or a worthy challenger. So if he wins the title, it will come as a surprise and it'll be a mistake that AEW will wish they could rectify.

#2 Making the match order too convoluted

The closing moment of Fight for the Fallen was confusing, and the talent didn't even know whether the show was off or on air
The closing moment of Fight for the Fallen was confusing, and the talent didn't even know whether the show was off or on air

Some of the mistakes that AEW has made in the past with their previous events is the way they book their match order. What they do is they make all the low profile matches take place first with the high profile matches taking place last.

This makes their events appear rushed just so that we could get to the main event. To fix this, they should have one of their high profile matches open the show, followed by a low profile match, a mid-card match and then the main event.

This way, the event won't get convoluted and fans won't get too worn out at the beginning of the show as they would get a chance to take a breather in between each match.

AEW needs to manage their time properly so that the event starts and ends as planned and the ending doesn't get hastened. If the match order is too convoluted, it will become awkward and the promotion will look unprofessional.

#1 Taking shots at WWE or making WWE references

Brandi Rhodes handing her husband Cody Rhodes a sledgehammer
Brandi Rhodes handing her husband Cody Rhodes a sledgehammer

All Out is yet to air, but it seems like the promotion can't seem to get 'WWE' out of their mind. They take a shot at the company in Being The Elite, at their PPV events and recently, they took a dig at WWE at Starcast III. According to a report, during the Being the Elite Mailbag, Hangman Page was disappointed at the lack of pyro as he made his entrance. Nick Jackson responded by saying that they were on a “WWE budget", referencing the McMahon-led company's recent budget cuts.

Though The Young Bucks' Matt Jackson said there would be no digs at WWE, his brother Nick said:

"I think we are all forced [to watch bad wrestling] if we’re watching WWE, right?"

The company also took a shot at WWE at Double or Nothing where Cody used a sledgehammer to destroy a throne, possibly taking a shot at Triple H. If AEW really wants us to take them seriously, they need to stop this childish behavior because it doesn't help them at all.

All Out should be a show where wrestlers get to showcase their potential and not a show where WWE is being given the priority.

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