History Awesome / AllEliteWrestling

* The show opened with Orange Cassidy putting his International Championship on the line in a 21-man Blackjack Battle Royale. With brawling going on everywhere both inside and outside of the ring (due to the stipulation that a wrestler can't be eliminated until they've entered the ring) bodies flew everywhere. Notable moments and story beats included:

** While Chuck Taylor was accidentally eliminated by his friend Orange Cassidy when the champion (who was stranded on the ring apron) pulled the ropes down to duck when Big Bill hurled Chuck bodily towards him, having to choose between his championship and his friend, later in the match Trent Baretta sacrificed himself to save Cassidy by shoving him out of the way and being kicked off the apron by Big Bill in his place.

* TNT Champion Wardlow took on Christian Cage on his own terms, challenging the veteran to a ladder match. Christian showed off his incredible talent for this match format, knowing exactly what kinds of spots would and would not work to best effect[[note]]one criticism of AEW is that their gimmick matches often see talent trying prop-based spots that are too ambitious to work and end up going wrong[[/note]], crotching Wardlow on a ladder bridge outside the ring and slingshotting him into the underside of one he'd propped up in the corner, while Wardlow adapted quickly, smashing his opponent with and against the ladders. Their supporters Arn Anderson and Luchasaurus both got involved, with Arn nearly biting Luchasaurus' finger off to escape a chokeslam and Wardlow hitting the dinosaur with a ''massive'' senton off the top of a ladder to put Luchasaurus through a pair of tables on the outside. At the end, Arn tipped Christian off a ladder just as he was about to seize the championship, dropping him directly into Wardlow's arms in perfect powerbomb position, leaving him crumpled on the mat for the TNT Champion to ascend the ladder and retain.

* Jade Cargill faced rival Taya Valkyrie in a rematch where Taya's finisher, the Road to Valhalla, was no longer banned to her (since it was the same move as Jade's finisher, Jaded), meaning this time it would come down to who was the better woman. Taya gave Jade one of the best matches of her entire run, but in the end Jade was able to kick out of Road to Valhalla before Jaded, a feat which Taya could not repeat, extending her win streak to 60-0. After the match, her manager Mark Sterling got on the microphone to declare that Jade was ready to fight any time, any place, but [[TemptingFate there were simply no challengers left...]] only for ''Kris Statlander's'' music to hit as the injured star made her long-awaited return and got into the ring. Jade arrogantly [[SuicidalOverconfidence refused to back down]], but Stat put her away in less than a minute to ''finally'' end her record-breaking win streak and become the second ever TBS Champion to a monstrous ovation.

* Finally, the Elite and the BCC went to war in Anarchy in the Arena. Just like last year, Jon Moxley's theme 'Wild Thing' was played over and over again on repeat as the match started, only this time being performed live by The Violent Idols, which continued until the Bucks got fed up and superkicked the vocalist when he showed off the BCC T-shirt he was wearing under his jacket. As with the last match, it was gruesome bloody carnage, with spots like Moxley suplexing Kenny Omega onto one of the giant poker chip props he'd studded with barbed wire and broken glass, Claudio Castagnoli piledriving Matt Jackson in the back of a pickup truck parked out the back of the arena, Moxley putting thumbtacks into Matt's mouth and him and Yuta holding him so Claudio could uppercut him in the jaw, Matt superkicking Moxley in the jaw with a shoe that ''exploded'', and Matt having his shoe and sock yanked off his left foot then being picked up and dropped onto a pile of thumbtacks bare foot first (while everyone got their fair share of pain, it was ''not'' a good day at the office for Matt Jackson). In the end, Omega was about to put Wheeler Yuta away with the One-Winged Angel, only for his treacherous former mentor Don Callis to get into the ring and distract him, and then a masked figure to slide in and hit Omega with a jumping knee, revealing himself to be ''Konosuke Takeshita'' as Yuta pinned Omega with the Seatbelt Pin to win the match for the Blackpool Combat Club. Dave Meltzer would assess this match as being just as good as the previous years, giving the Anarchy in the Arena stipulation its second 5-star rating.

* The show opened with Orange Cassidy putting his International Championship on the line in a 21-man Blackjack Battle Royale. With brawling going on everywhere both inside and outside of the ring (due to the stipulation that a wrestler can't be eliminated until they've entered the ring) bodies flew everywhere. The four luchadors in the match (the Lucha Brothers, Bandido and Komander) all teamed up to show off the power of ''lucha libre'', with Komander, Fenix and Penta at one point fighting off attackers from all sides to defend Bandido while he stood in the middle of them holding Tony Nese up in a stalling suplex. Brian Cage went on a rampage, showing off his terrifying power as the luchadors just bounced off him, and the titanic Big Bill ragdolled whoever got in his way, lasting all the way to the final 3. While Chuck Taylor was accidentally eliminated by his friend Orange Cassidy when the champion (who was standing on the ring apron) pulled the ropes down to duck when Big Bill hurled Chuck towards him, having to choose between his championship and his friend, later in the match Trent Baretta sacrificed himself to save Cassidy by shoving him out of the way and being kicked off the apron by Big Bill in his place. The match would eventually come down to a tired and battered Cassidy against Swerve Strickland after Strickland backstabbed Big Bill, ending with Cassidy putting his feet up into Swerve's face to counter a stomp on the apron, leaving Swerve dangling from the rope by his fingers- which the champion would insouciantly kick away, sending Swerve to the floor to triumph and continue his amazing International Championship run.

** '''Most Underrated:''' Konosuke Takeshita[[note]]Not ''entirely'' a positive award, as "Most Underrated" is generally understood to be the "Why aren't you pushing this guy, you idiots?" award[[/note]]

* Tony Khan has a big announcement to make: their first international PPV is scheduled to take place in the UK on Sunday August 27th this year. For the event, AEW have booked the ''Wembley Stadium'', by far the biggest venue they've ever tried to fill (the same one where WWE famously held ''Wrestling/SummerSlam 1992''), with 90,000 seats. If AEW can even sell 40,000 tickets they'll consider it a success (and with over 25,000 fans pre-booking tickets as soon as the event was announced, this would be low-balling it). But the big twist was the revealed name of the event: '''''[[CallBack AEW All In]]'''''.

* The Texas Death Match between Hangman Page and Jon Moxley promised to be a nightmare of violence as the two blew off their hate-filled feud, and ''it delivered!'' Both men bled buckets, as they tried to see if every wrestling match spot could be made more interesting with the addition of as much barbed wire as possible, Mox used a fork to rip up Page's forehead in a manner that would make Wrestling/AbdullahTheButcher proud, and later used a pair of bricks to try and smash Page's right hand. But in the end it was the Hangman who came out on top, appropriately enough by ''hanging his opponent,'' clotheslining a chain-wrapped Moxley over the top rope and holding the chains so Mox was actually forced to tap out in order to avoid being choked to death!

* Finally, the main event was hailed by some viewers as potentially the single greatest match AEW has ''ever'' put on, as World Champion MJF faced the American Dragon Bryan Danielson in a 60 minute ironman match. Commentary pointed out that this was already guaranteed to be the longest match of the young man's career, as he'd never even gone beyond 40 minutes before this, while Danielson did 60-minute matches ''for fun,'' but MJF stepped up to the plate to prove once again that he's more than just a (foul) mouth. It was 20 minutes of intensive chain wrestling and increasingly big moves before the American Dragon finally drew first blood with a Busaiku Knee, but MJF immediately countered with a low blow that, despite costing him another point, allowed him to score two quick pins in return on Danielson and nearly a third! As MJF mercilessly targeted the injured left shoulder of Danielson that he'd been paying other men to damage in the lead-up to the match, Danielson in return ruthlessly tried to turn MJF's left knee inside out, an issue only further exacerbated by MJF's own offence as he fearlessly hit big moves such as a ''spectacular'' flying elbow from the top turnbuckle to put Danielson through the timekeeper's table, which he followed with a ''running tombstone'' through the unbroken remnant of the table. As the two brutalised each other, the score ended up at 3-3 with MJF in a savage single-leg crab as the last few seconds counted down, tapping out ''right'' after the last second elapsed, making the match a draw. However as both men were being tended to by medical personnel, Tony Schiavone received a message from Tony Khan backstage, who relayed to ring announcer Justin Roberts that a draw was not acceptable, and even after 60 minutes of torment the two men would have to fight into extra time. After a ''breathtaking'' series of near falls and false finishes, including MJF missing with the Dynamite Diamond Ring and then having it taken away from him by the ref while he was locked in a submission, MJF managed to sucker Danielson over to the edge of the ring before smashing him on the head with an oxygen canister the medical staff had been using to try and treat him earlier out of the ref's line of sight. For the final blow, MJF did ''not'' use his Salt of the Earth Armbar to finish off Danielson's injured shoulder, instead using ''Danielson's own [=LeBell=] Lock'' submission against him. For a moment it looked like Danielson would pass out, only for him to appear to find a HeroicSecondWind... and then [[SubvertedTrope tap out]], unable to bear any more. This match ''solidified'' MJF as not only the top heel in AEW, but one of ''the'' very best young wrestlers in the world today and a man who ''deserves'' to be AEW's top champion.

* The Trios Championships were put on the line as The Elite faced off against the menacing power of the House of Black. Given the talent involved it's no surprise that there were too many brilliant spots and bouts of literally Elite-tier wrestling on display, from the dream match tease of Buddy Matthews opening against Kenny Omega to Brody King's unstoppable rampage and Kenny accidentally V-Triggering Julia Hart off the apron. But in the shocking conclusion, Matthews kicked Nick Jackson out of the air mid-Meltzer Driver and an insolated Matt fell prey to Dante's Inferno, with the House of Black becoming the new Trios Champions.

* The Tag Team Championships were defending in a 4-way match between the unpopular champions the Gunns (aka. the "Ass Boys"), former champions The Acclaimed, the old veteran team of Jeff Jarrett and Jay Lethal, and the surprising team of Orange Cassidy and Danhausen. A light-hearted and at times goofy affair with lots of interference from the sidelines, with the probably highlight being the colossal Satnam Singh being dropped by a Fameasser from Billy Gunn (there to support his surrogate sons The Acclaimed), only for him to receive a double low blow from his ''actual'' [[AntagonisticOffspring sons]] the Gunns. While the crowd went dead quiet when the Gunns managed to retain with a 310 To Yuma on Danhausen, the excitement came back when FTR made their unexpected return to avenge past insults and stake their claim to the Tag Team belts once more.

* The show opened with Ricky Starks finally concluding his feud against Chris Jericho, getting the Ocho in the ring with his flunkies in the JAS banned from ringside. Jericho once again defies his age to keep up with the younger star, at one point countering Starks' spear into a beautiful Codebreaker. Sammy Guevara attempts to defy the ban on the JAS by running down, only to be jumped by a GenreSavvy Action Andretti and driven off, but Jericho uses the distraction to deliver a bad shot to Starks' stomach. However Starks becomes the first person to ever ''block'' the Judas Effect and take Jericho out with a Roshambo to pick up the win.

** Especially awesome for Evil Uno who doesn't hesitate to step up to 'Jon Moxley' 3-time AEW champion and proclaiming he isn't afraid of him slapping him in the face.

[[AC: November 25, 2022: ''Black Friday''

* Coming off the back of the terrible mess that followed All Out[[note]]the incident known as "Brawl Out" where new World Champion CM Punk starting a backstage brawl against new Trios Champions The Elite which resulted in ''all'' of them being stripped of their belts and suspended, with Punk assumed to be done with the company as a result[[/note]], AEW had a lot to prove with their last PPV of 2022. But everyone stepped up and knocked it out of the park.

* The free Zero Hour pre-show hyped up the crowd with a trio of enjoyable matches: The Factory taking on AEW's CHAOS chapter in an enjoyable 5-on-5 tag match that saw the AEW debut of Danhausen's "evil" character, giving the facepainted weirdo a chance to show off that, like Orange Cassidy he can be a serious wrestler when provoked; Ricky Starks defied injured ribs to defeat his longtime rival, the monstrous Brian Cage, and move on to the final of the AEW World Title Eliminator Tournament; and Eddie Kingston got to live out his childhood dream by facing his idol Jun Akiyama, which he won after a second Uraken, before cutting a heartwrenching and heartwarming impromptu promo that did as much to sell the actual PPV as all the build that had happened leading up to it.

* Two behemoths, Wardlow and Brian Cage go at it for The TNT Championship as Wardlow faces his toughest challenge in his reign as the two powerful men go at it as Cage proves he is a Machine. But Wardlow is not ready to lose his Title just yet as he manages to get Cage up and deliver The Powerbomb to retain.