Ricky Starks and The Actual Winners and Losers From AEW All Out 2023 Match Card

Any main professional wrestling pay-per-view carries with it the potential for winners and losers primarily based on match outcomes, artistic developments, and their general inventory exiting the occasion and Sunday’s AEW All Out was no completely different.

The present noticed younger stars seize the highlight and set up themselves as clear winners of the night time whereas former champions with sturdy fan followings discovered themselves within the loser’s column, an unfamiliar place.

Who landed the place and what would possibly it imply for them shifting ahead? Discover out with this recap of the September 3 occasion.

Wacky “meat” chants apart, Miro and Powerhouse Hobbs had a hell of a heavyweight battle Sunday night time in Chicago. It was unabashedly bodily and punishing, precisely what you’ll need out of a battle between two guys as huge as they’re, with the kinds that they’ve.

Hobbs wrestled the match of his profession, promoting when mandatory and answering The Redeemer’s clubbing blows with these of his personal. He could have misplaced the match, but it surely was a triumph within the sense that it was his finest match in fairly a while, towards a man in an identical scenario.

Miro wanted a defining match to justify his newfound push on Saturday nights and silence any doubters about his in-ring skills. He bought it and much more than Hobbs, noticeably fed off the response of a red-hot Chicago crowd.

The post-match, with Hobbs attacking Miro, just for the debuting CJ Perry to return to her husband’s support, suggests we now have not seen the top of this program. Primarily based on the standard of this match, that’s hardly a foul factor.

The query can be whether or not they can have the identical match when the group is not residing and respiratory on each huge, energy spot.

So long as the story is there, and one can solely think about the place that can go, it shouldn’t be a problem.

It was an uncharacteristically tough night time for The Acclaimed in Chicago Sunday.

Max Caster and Anthony Bowens are one of the crucial electrifying acts in all of AEW however an ineffective rap from the previous gave option to a match, with associate Daddy Ass towards Jeff Jarrett, Satnam Singh, and Jay Deadly, that by no means actually clicked.

The presence of Dennis Rodman didn’t elevate its significance, the group was not almost as sizzling for the perennial babyfaces as they’ve been earlier than, and the consequence was a Zero Hour match that limped to its conclusion moderately than successfully setting the tone for the night time’s essential card.

The crew nonetheless attracts an enormous pop, and the viewers loves the younger duo and their veteran mentor, however that preliminary wave of momentum seems to have worn off.

Possibly it’s as a result of their most up-to-date storyline was aimed extra at highlighting Billy Gunn moderately than Caster or Bowens. Maybe the tag title loss to the Gunns did extra to hamper that aforementioned momentum than anybody imagined it might.

Regardless of the case, the crew seems like it’s on a treadmill of types, nonetheless closely featured as AEW World Trios Champions, however missing something of actual substance for them to do outdoors of debuting gimmicky title belts.

Ricky Starks arrived at All Out having seen his preliminary plans for the present scrapped, a brand new opponent in Bryan Danielson named, and a Leather-based Strap Match stipulation revealed.

None of it mattered.

“Absolute” rolled into Chicago, in arguably the most important match of his profession, and proceeded to ship the most effective efficiency of his profession. He did so with heightened expectations and the eyes of the wrestling world on him.

Danielson is among the biggest wrestlers to ever lace a pair of trainers. He has battled each star of any stature to set foot within the squared circle over the past 20 years and did so on the most important levels identified to skilled wrestling.

There was little question he may maintain up his finish of the cut price however when it got here to Starks, there was a little bit of uncertainty.

He answered all questions, silenced all doubters, and within the course of, wrestled a defining match that can solely improve his standing in AEW and the trade at massive.

It was a bloody, violent match that noticed each males’s our bodies welted, bruised and lacerated from the leather-based strap on the heart of it. They had been brutalized and badly overwhelmed however fought by the ache. Ultimately, Danielson trapped Starks within the LeBell Lock and used the strap to choke him out.

Defiant, the younger heel refused to faucet out, as a substitute fading into unconsciousness as referee Aubrey Edwards referred to as for the bell.

The toughness on show from Starks, greater than something, will earn him the respect of the viewers and he can be higher of for having gone by the bodily hell that he did Sunday night time.

It appears moderately astonishing that there was nothing of better substance for former AEW World Champion “Hangman” Adam Web page to do than seem in a pre-show Overbudget Battle Royal that was introduced not more than 24 hours earlier than the pay-per-view, however that’s the situation going through the perfector of the Buckshot Lariat.

Web page gained the battle royal, but it surely felt hole. It was a win for win’s sake, with no indication of path past the present. Primarily based on his elimination of Brian Cage and Toa Liona of the Mogul Embassy to safe the victory, maybe he may discover opposition within the faction’s chief, Swerve Strickland.

Possibly he strikes onto one thing of better significance within the wake of All Out, when there may be extra time to construct tales and introduce new rivalries.

Regardless of the case, it felt fairly unusual watching a man who has been on the coronary heart of so many important occasions and matches in AEW historical past be relegated to a thrown-together preshow match of no that means or consequence.

In headlining his first AEW pay-per-view, Orange Cassidy was already a winner.

A former comedy act by his personal admission, he spent the final 12 months proving that he may grasp with any wrestler on the roster, all of the whereas establishing the AEW Worldwide Championship as, arguably, the strongest title within the firm.

Sunday night time, he entered the famed United Middle for a showdown with Jon Moxley, his historic reign on the road.

Bloodied and overwhelmed down, his physique wracked with ache from his earlier defenses in addition to the agony he endured by the hands of his opponent, Cassidy defiantly flipped Moxley one final center finger earlier than consuming a second Demise Rider.

He would lose from there, placing an finish to probably the most unexpectedly nice title reign in latest reminiscence. Within the course of, nevertheless, he earned the respect of the AEW followers.

Like Starks earlier within the night time, Cassidy’s toughness was on full show. He by no means gave up, even below probably the most grueling and bodily demanding of circumstances, and the group appreciated him for it.

At the same time as he lay within the blood-soaked ring, his physique at relaxation for the primary time in what felt like an eternity, it was abundantly clear that Freshly Squeezed had formally graduated from a joke, a comedic afterthought, to the gutsiest babyface on the AEW roster.

In defeat, he was victorious.

Don’t be shocked if that is the beginning of one thing larger, extra important for Cassidy, who has actually earned it.