Wrestling
AEW All In Exclusive Backstage Notes
AEW All In notes from Fightful Select. Subscribe for just $5.99 a month for exclusive news!
- The rundown for AEW All In — the general match order — was kept very quiet, even to some producers until the day of the show.
- There were rehearsals for All In at a secret location Friday night.
- The Hangman Page entrance shot was very intentional — it was the first time he’d come out of the AEW babyface tunnel in quite some time.
- There were also several results of matches that were kept pretty close to the vest, with multiple matches having alternate endings planned between the wrestlers themselves. Some other matches, such as Toni Storm vs. Mercedes Mone, had the planned creative dating back months. Hangman Page vs. Jon Moxley’s result was planned pretty well since Hangman went over at Double or Nothing.
- Fightful spoke with Powerhouse Hobbs, Kyle Fletcher and Mark Briscoe at media day for All In. Those interviews will emerge in the coming weeks.
- Wardlow was in town for All In, but wasn’t backstage until after the show had started.
- The stretcher angle for Samoa Joe was used to write him off to promote Twisted Metal the series.
- Sons of Texas and The Infantry feud is set to continue.
- The Mercedes Mone/Crunchyroll partnership has been in the making for two years. We’ll have more on that soon.
- There were a ton of non-AEW wrestlers in attendance for All In. They included Shotzi Blackheart, Priscilla Kelly/Gigi Dolin, Monty Brown, Joey Janela, Brian Myers, and others.
- AAA wrestler Sam Adonis was at Starrcast doing work throughout the weekend as well.
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