Everyone’s still pals…for now.

I enjoyed Sunday’s AEW All In from London's Wembley Stadium, which is likely now one of the biggest shows of all time in terms of attendance. While there weren’t any match of the year contenders, nothing on the show can be deemed bad. A lot of the top matches delivered, and the big stadium feel was present throughout the entire show.

The build to All In was all over the place with a lot of matches not being announced until the last minute. The good news is that by the end, it did feel like a pretty important show had just taken place. Even though they are running the same venue next year, it's going to be tough to duplicate the success of this year's show.

All In ended with Adam Cole upset about his flash pin loss to AEW World Champion MJF in front of 80,000 people.

Initially, he rejected MJF trying to console him. But yet again, there was no turn as Cole embraced MJF after MJF turned his back on Cole, expecting an attack. For now, they are delaying what seems to be the inevitable.

I thought the main event was the best match on the show and was probably the most compelling. At the same time, I can understand both sides of the spectrum regarding the match. If you wanted a hot back and forth contest, this did have that at times, but a lot of the match was centered around the MJF/Cole friendship drama and maybe a little too much. But I found myself invested in the storytelling, all the way down to MJF granting Cole a sudden death restart of the match after they both got pinned following a double clothesline.

It’s fair to ask the question if this type of match should have headlined this particular historical wrestling event, but the crowd were into it, as was I, and I think that’s what ultimately matters in the end.

That leaves the question of what the AEW World Champion will be doing in six days as there’s no clear main event for Sunday's All Out without a turn from either man. It’s possible they could set up a turn on Dynamite and do another match on Sunday. Or, perhaps, there could be an ROH Tag Team title match at All Out where they lose them and split, leading to the big blowoff match at Full Gear. A lot of questions remain for a show that's less than a week away.

Here’s some thoughts on the rest of this gigantic card:

There’s not much to say about the ROH Tag Team title match that kicked off the night which was a pretty simple affair with Cole and MJF winning the titles to set the stage for later in the night. It’s disappointing that Aussie Open were only used to lose to MJF and Adam Cole, but perhaps there’s a rematch down the line where they regain them.Will Ospreay defeated Chris Jericho in what I thought was a great match. It felt like a Ospreay match in that there were some cool, quick back and forth sequences during the match and Jericho managed to keep up. There was one spot early that looked bad and I think Jericho got hurt after taking that Sky Twister press. But beyond that, this was Ospreay at his finest and Jericho’s still really good at this stage of the game.I thought FTR and The Young Bucks’ third offering was really good, great even, but I wouldn’t call it an all-time classic match. FTR have had better tag matches this year and this was nowhere near the Juice Robinson/Jay White title match from earlier in the summer. But I don’t really want to discredit this match because it was great and there were tons of cool callbacks to their previous matches including Cash Wheeler missing the 450 splash (again!).CM Punk vs. Samoa Joe V was significantly better than their Collision match from earlier in the summer. This was a real great back and forth opener and the crowd was super into everything. Punk even won with the Pepsi Plunge, a move that I can’t imagine is fun to do on anyone’s knees. As for what's next for Punk, is it MJF? That's the ultimate goal, right?Stadium Stampede probably wasn’t the best match of the night, but I would say it was the most fun. So much stuff was going on and the complete chaos of it all is always fun to witness. Between Sue coming back with the van and Penta Oscuro making his return (remember that gimmick?), there was plenty of fun to be had. Konosuke Takeshita pinned Kenny Omega to win in their six-man tag match. I thought this was real good, especially towards the end. It set the stage for next Sunday, when Takeshita meets Omega in a singles match.I don’t know about Kota Ibushi at this point. There were times where he looked okay in the aforementioned six-man and times where he didn’t. The more time that goes by, the more I think that shoulder injury was a turning point in his career.The AEW Trios title match was a simple, nice buffer in between the bigger matches on the card. They wanted to tell a story focusing on Billy Gunn, who made his triumphant return here and won gold with The Acclaimed. It was a nice, cute moment for a team that managed to get themselves over organically.Sting & Darby Allin defeated Swerve Strickland & Christian Cage in a coffin match. A lot of this was Allin taking sick bumps on the coffin (which looked like it hurt) and Sting (who came out to Metallica's Seek and Destroy!) doing some cool stuff. It was a very good match where the babyfaces came out on top and everyone was happy.The Women’s title match was fine, but there’s not much to talk about. It was mainly a story of whether Toni Storm and Saraya could work together. Unfortunately, they did not. In fact, Saraya used The Outcasts’ spray can on Storm, allowing her to score the win as Britt Baker was attempting to submit Hikaru Shida. I guess the story here is the question if the Outcasts will split or if this was just a one-night thing.Hook regained the FTW Championship, defeating Jack Perry. This was a nice pre-show match with a lot of it based on working around a limo Perry brought to the ring, much like how I am working around talking about the bigger story stemming from this match. It was real glass, did you know that? Anyway, Hook is the FTW Champion again and all is right in his world.

And that’s it for All In! And now we look to All Out, which is…next week. Oh boy. We don’t even have a main event yet. I guess we’ll find out on Wednesday. Maybe?

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