[SuperMatt18]

I haven't been able to fully watch All Out but man AEW needs to learn every match doesn't need to have some absolutely ridiculous spot.

Plastic bags, tacks, cinder blocks, needles, light tubes...what else was there tonight...they have good enough wrestlers they don't even need all these things in every other match.

And okay if they want the blood and gore for these PPvs then fine...but stick to stuff like the needle in the mouth. It's shocking, it's gore, but it's relatively low risk.

Both the vertebreaker and powerbomb onto the cinder block are way too risky. No way Swerve didn't hurt something in his back on that powerbomb. The vertebreaker wasn't as bad looking but if that's off by an inch then Hangman's neck would have had a real issue.

Too often there is stuff like the cinder block, or Darby flying through real glass and 6 chairs from a ladder that is like "was that risk really necessary"

Edit: From a pure booking perspective AEW has this weird habit of really making former champions lose even more after losing the title.

Hangman did it after losing to Punk, Samoa Joe has kind of done it, and now Swerve has done it. Even MJF lost to Ospreay and has been shuffled down into more of the mid card after his return.

Maybe I'm so conditioned to the traditional rematch after losing a title but it's weird to me that once they take a belt off a guy they tend to lose a couple more matches and get shuffled down the card and don't even seem to care about the title that much.

Double Edit: Hangman's fall into insanity is a great story though. Not sure where the story goes for Swerve but for Hangman it's the typical "you've become what you despised" story and he's lost all humanity now.