On Sunday night, at AEW: All In, All Elite Wrestling not only had a worldwide audience on pay-per view, but also a sold-out live event at Wembley Stadium in London, England that shattered multiple records across the professional wrestling industry. With 81,035 fans from more than 70 countries converging at Wembley, it marked the largest crowd in history to ever attend a pro wrestling event in Europe.

The card was super-packed, moved super-fast and ended roughly under four hours. Let’s take a look at some of the highpoints of the night.

MJF vs. Adam Cole – AEW World Heavyweight Championship

In the main event, “best buds on the cusp of backstabbing each other” was the storyline that played out in the ring, and out of the ring, with plenty of pro wrestling tropes along the way.

After Cole and MJF won the ROH Tag Team Titles on the Zero Hour buy in before the pay-per-view, you had a feeling that their house of cards was going to implode. While both men were wearing their top-selling tank tops on AEW Shop.com the “Better Than You, Bay-Bay” boys slowly mounted the tension between them with Cole looking more like he would do anything to win the title from Max, including double-crossing him.  Many times throughout the match, MJF teased he would fall back on his ‘scumbag’ and cheating ways, but he never did. He couldn’t bring himself to do it to his best friend.

After the duo knocked each other out, the ref called it a double-pin and a draw.  Next, Cole asked MJF to extend the match and he did till there was a winner between them.  As referees were knocked out … twice, Roderick Strong (Cole’s ‘best friend’) came to the ring to help Cole win illegally.  But Cole wanted Strong to leave the ring.  In the end, MJF secured the win with a quick roll up on Cole.  MJF tried to console Adam with the ROH belts, but Cole tossed his away. This time, MJF turned his back to give Cole an opportunity to clock him with the belt to prove he didn’t really want to be his friend after all. But like MJF previously, Cole couldn’t smash him with the title, and the show ended with the guys hugging it out and the crowd went wild.

MJF is the best total-package wrestler in the world going right now, and the fact that Adam Cole main-evented All In after a serious brain injury almost a year ago is a feat on to itself.  GRADE A

Will Ospreay vs. Chris Jericho

After All In, we can confirm what we already knew, Will Ospreay is the best wrestler in the world. No one his size, can hit the high-flying maneuvers like he can, and deliver his spots with such athletic precision and intensity. For that reason alone, this match was must-see.

We could have done without Chris Jericho singing live to his band Fozzy, playing his entrance theme track, “Judas in My Mind”, but we guess All In being a spectacle and all, they tried to work it in.  However, try as Jericho might, his entrance was upstaged by Ospreay’s stunning one.

In the match, while Jericho still continues to deliver high-quality matches at this stage of his career, he was the heel on this night as the crowd was behind England’s Ospreay.  Eventually, a second Oscutter put down Jericho.  After the match, the only member left from the Jericho Appreciation Society, Sammy Guevera, was pushed away by Jericho. Is this now the final crack in their friendship that dates back to the beginning of AEW?   

Ospreay’s contract is up in February of 2024 with New Japan Pro Wrestling. Will he sign with AEW and become a major star here in the US? Stay tuned.  GRADE A for Ospreay!

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Saraya vs. Britt Baker vs. Toni Storm vs. Hikaru Shida – AEW World’s Women’s Championship

This match brought the emotional highpoint of the night.  For Saraya was wrestling in front of her family in the front row and in her country of England and with the hometown crowd 100% behind her. Saraya’s journey to even getting here had been nothing short of remarkable. She had what was believed to be career-ending neck injury and surgery and was also let go by the WWE. Now with second chance at success in the biggest AEW stage of them all, this was her night to triumph.

The four-way for the Women’s belt delivered in several instances, but none more so than the implosion of the Outcasts. During the match Toni Storm mistakenly struck Saraya’s mother in the crowd.  That set the stage for tension to overflow and the two went at it, including Storm trying to re-injure Saraya’s neck.  Running out to save the day was Outcast member, Ruby Soho, who helped prevent Saraya from a vengeful Storm,

Meanwhile, Dr. Britt Baker D.M.D. was trying to use dental pressure points to make Shida give-up and become the title holder. However, in the end, Saraya used the Outcasts spray paint and sprayed in Toni Storm’s eyes and followed it up with the pin becoming the champ.

Throughout the match, the camera showed none other than Mercedes Mone’, (AKA Sasha Banks) attending the All In event.  It should be noted that Mone’, accidentally caused the injury that put Saraya out of action. Might Mercedes come to AEW and challenge Saraya for the title … or, tag team with her against Soho and Storm? Stay tuned.   GRADE A

AEW: All In  became AEW’s highest grossing event ever and one of the largest pro wrestling gates of all time, generating more than $10 million.

In other key matches:

CM Punk def, Samoa Joe.  GRADE C-

Bullet Club Gold def. Bullet Club Elite  GRADE B+

FTR def. The Young Bucks and retained the AEW World Tag Team Championship in a amazing match of spots and tag wrestling. GRADE A

Best Friends, Orange Cassidy, Penta El Zero M, Eddie Kingston and Orange Cassidy won the Stadium Stampede Match vs. The Blackpool Combat Club along with Santana and Ortiz. GRADE B

Sting And Darby Allin def. Strickland And Christian Cage in a  Coffin Match GRADE B+

The Acclaimed and Billy Gun def. House of Black for the AEW Trios Championship GRADE D

Hook def. Jack Perry for the FTR Championship GRADE B-

So, what did you think of AEW All in London? Did your favorite win or retain their championships? Comment below. But first, check out Michael Fairman and pro wrestling report Luis Ruiz “All In After-Show” on You Tube’s “What’s Up? Wrestling” series below.