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AEW All In Texas Predictions Thread! (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) by GeekFTW@lemmy.zip to c/squaredcircle@lemmy.zip

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What do you think happens folks? Make your guesses!

Le Card:

Men's Casino Gauntlet Match
Mark Briscoe vs. Mistico vs. MJF vs. TBA vs. TBA vs. TBA vs. TBA

Women's Casino Gauntlet Match
Kris Statlander vs. TBA vs. TBA vs. TBA vs. TBA vs. TBA vs. TBA

Tag Team Match
Swerve Strickland & Will Ospreay vs. The Young Bucks (Matthew Jackson & Nicholas Jackson)

AEW World Tag Team Title Three Way Match
The Hurt Syndicate (Bobby Lashley & Shelton Benjamin) (w/MJF & MVP) (c) vs. JetSpeed (Kevin Knight & Mike Bailey) vs. The Patriarchy (Christian Cage & Nick Wayne)

AEW TNT Title Match
Adam Cole (c) vs. Kyle Fletcher

AEW Continental Title / AEW International Title / AEW Unified Title Match (vacant)
Kenny Omega (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada (c)

AEW Women's World Title Match
Toni Storm (c) vs. Mercedes Mone

AEW World Title Texas Death Match
Jon Moxley (c) vs. Adam Page

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[–] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Men's Casino Gauntlet Match
Darby Allin returns as the Joker card and wins

Women's Casino Gauntlet Match
Britt Baker returns as the Joker card, Willow Nightingale wins

Tag Team Match
Swerve Strickland & Will Ospreay win, I can't see them out of the title picture for a year and disposing of the EVP position as a plot device makes sense to me

AEW World Tag Team Title Three Way Match
The Patriarchy wins due to dissension between Hurt Syndicate and MJF

AEW TNT Title Match
Kyle Fletcher needs this, and Cole has done nothing with it, so he gets it

AEW Continental Title / AEW International Title / AEW Unified Title Match (vacant)
Kenny Omega

AEW Women's World Title Match
Toni Storm hands Mercedes her first L

AEW World Title Texas Death Match
Adam Page. Dear god, please.

[–] JelloBrains@piefed.zip 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I like your selections and second them. Except...

Darby Allin returns as the Joker card and wins

And we get the Darby - Mox match to crown Darby as the next star. As much as I'd prefer Page I think AEW will go with holding off until Mox and Darby can happen.

I don't about the rest of you but when Hangman is on top, my enjoyment of AEW goes up.

[–] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I'd agree if this was a different show, but this is All In. This is not the show you end with the Death Riders standing tall. This is the show you end with the hero redeemed and saving AEW from their clutches, and holding the title belt aloft for the first time in months.

[–] JelloBrains@piefed.zip 3 points 5 hours ago

I hope you're right, but I'm not going to be shocked if it doesn't happen.

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

MJF I think, he's going to screw over the Hurt Syndicate on his way to a world title

I think Thekla to get her more established and I think Kris is going to keep losing for the Death Riders angle.

Swerve and Ospreay, the stipulation is the tell

Hurt Syndicate as there no reason for them to drop it to either team

Kyle Fletcher because he's red hot and Adam Cole isn't

I don't even know with Omega and Okada and I love it

I want to say Toni but I'm not sure about this either

Please dear Black Phillip let it be Hangman

[–] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 hours ago

I 100% feel its gonna be Omega...I'll be happy to be surprised, but it just feels Omega to me...

...and I know he's not gonna...

...but if my boy picks this match to come out wearing this shit

...I'ma lose my fucking mind.

[–] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 3 points 13 hours ago

Men's Casino Gauntlet Match
Mark Briscoe vs. Mistico vs. MJF vs. TBA vs. TBA vs. TBA vs. TBA

Hard to say, but I'm gonna give the edge to MJF as he's feuding with both Briscoe and Mistico, it feels like it makes sense.

Women's Casino Gauntlet Match
Kris Statlander vs. TBA vs. TBA vs. TBA vs. TBA vs. TBA vs. TBA

#2 will be decided tonight (Megan Bayne vs. Tay Melo vs. Thekla vs. Queen Aminata) so also hard to say, but I could see Kris winning with some interference since it seems like they're building her up a bit with the Yuta stuff.

Tag Team Match
Swerve Strickland & Will Ospreay vs. The Young Bucks (Matthew Jackson & Nicholas Jackson)

Swerve When I Assassinate™ wins, big show, why not

HS retain unless if they wanna pull the trigger on MJF already, which I don't think they are yet. Probably not a clean win.

AEW TNT Title Match
Adam Cole (c) vs. Kyle Fletcher

Fletcher I cannot give a rat fuck about Adam Cole anymore and the Fletchlights are red hot for this

AEW Continental Title / AEW International Title / AEW Unified Title Match (vacant)
Kenny Omega (c) vs. Kazuchika Okada (c)

Omega wins the Unified title after both men bring their WrestleKingdom-best.

AEW Women's World Title Match
Toni Storm (c) vs. Mercedes Mone

I do not want to see Mercedes win the title while she has 8375 other belts.

AEW World Title Texas Death Match
Jon Moxley (c) vs. Adam Page

..I will burn this goddamned world to the fucking ground, I swear..

[–] PDFuego@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's a casino gauntlet match?

[–] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Match starts off with 2 people, and every so many seconds/minutes another competitor enters the match, similar to a rumble.

But the match is one fall, by the usual pinfall/submission/etc etc. The first 2 wrestlers are the only ones guaranteed to even be in the match; if #1 pins #2, the match is over before #3-6 even get to come out. Which is why they had those "who gets to be #1/#2 matches recently on Dynamite/Collision/

[–] PDFuego@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ah cool, thanks.

Which is why they had those "who gets to be #1/#2 matches recently on Dynamite/Collision/

🤷

I don't know about any of that. I'm subbed here because I used to be a big wrestling guy and I still enjoy the news about the industry, but I can't actually stand to watch any of this any more.

[–] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

If you haven't before, I recommend you check out AEW. Speaking for myself, it's everything I love about wrestling without everything I hate about WWE.

[–] PDFuego@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I was around for the first few months of AEW and watched it weekly, but I just don't care any more. I'll pop in to watch a PPV (or whatever they're called these days) occasionally. WWE is completely unwatchable though, there's just something about it I can't stand.

Lucha Underground spoiled me, it was so much fun and nothing else can compare.

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 4 points 12 hours ago

LU was so good!

[–] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 16 hours ago

Lucha Underground was absolutely brilliant, I agree. Nothing like it before or since.

[–] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Fair!