AEW ALL ECOS: Texas | Together with danger

«The end is the movie. Gánatelos at the end and will be a success. You can have failures and mistakes, but let them speechless at the end and you will be successful.

Paralyzed by the creative blockade that prevents him from concluding his script, Charlie Kauffman, protagonist of Adaption (2002), receives such advice from Robert McKee, one of the most famous script theorists in the world. Fortunately for AEWit seems that the company He did not have so many problems with his greatest story in six years of existence, as we saw last Saturday in All In: Texas, ppv whose end made this a memorable event.

► The Great MacGuffin

We have had to attend Bryan Danielson's full -time rings, the impulse of veterans who blurred the original Spirit of AEW and several defenses of the male world title where the Death Riders kept suspicious similarities with the worst of the NWO and The Bloodline. But everything made sense from Dynasty 2025, when Swerve Strickland was completely involved in this crusade against Jon Moxley and Cía for AEW.

Then Double Or Nothing 2025 and his epic journey through the desert, with a victory of the technical side in that combat “Anarchy in the Arena” that meant an omen of what happened in Arlington. Antón Chekhov said that You should never put a rifle loaded on stage if you are not going to play your role, which was wrong to promise something and not fulfill it. Can I imagine what the “feedback” would be all in: Texas today to continue Moxley as maximum monarch? The importance of the finals was revealed as never before.

And all With a Macgaffin in between: the AEW World Championship. Some resource purists argue that the condition of a Macgaffin is to be irrelevant to the audience but relevant to the characters, in addition to serving as a catalyzer artifact for action. This is the case, for example, in Pulp Fiction (1994) and that mysterious briefcase whose content we never see. And so it happened for nine months with the AEW World Championship, which at times we got to doubt even if it was in that a briefcase guarded stoically by Marina Shafir.

There was plenty of saying it, AEW did not intend to distort the meaning of its main title, but ended up making it a great MacGuffin. Because what he wanted to tell us the “main event” of All In: Texas went beyond championships. What he wanted to tell us was the redemption of two once enemies, “Hangman” Page and Swerve Strickland, collaborating in pursuit of a greater good. See, aew redemption metaphor, shaking those ghosts of discord so harmful to the image of the company, counterprogramada and besieged in a crucial weekend. When I needed it, AEW sent a unity message to the danger that WWE is for the health of the industry.

In this sense, All In: Texas se asemejó a All Out 2021PPV most remembered for his moments (specifically his epilogue, with the first appearance of Bryan Danielson) than by the “In-Ring” action, because really, his only excellent combat was that “Steel Cage” between the fight Brothers and the Young Bucks. And it seems curious to me that now, the event that marks a new era of cane in AEW is not at the level of other functions such as, without going far, Double Or Nothing 2025 or Revolution 2025.

With this, obviously, I don't want to say that there: Texas walked scarce of good struggles. There was more to take his mouth apart from the “main event.” I stay with The Young Bucks (infallible in any era), Swerve Strickland and Will Ospreay, who combined one of the best duplic clashes of the yearwhere the result also left a good taste of Boca for assuming a victory over villainy, although the loss of their positions of executive vice presidents may only imply for Matt and Nick Jackson a temporary absence of programming.

And to a lesser extent, I stay with Toni Storm vs. Mercedes Moné y Kenny Omega vs. Kazuchika Okada. I already wrote in the previous of All In: Texas that certain results would mark certain fighting, because AEW needed to present a “book” without reservations, as ambitious as the chosen scenario. And those two, despite the remarkable quality between the twelve strings, They would have considerably increased their value of having left Moné and Omega winners.

In the first case, because the momentum Around the individual undefeated of “The CEO” under AEW's outbreaks had to prolong and that a rising fighter had had the honor of finalizing it some time later; For example, Athena, with a attempted holder in hand thanks to the Casino Gauntlet. In the second case because a triumph of Omega, a veteran already in the final stretch of his career, married the internal narrative of All In: Texas, who would have joined those of Swerve Strickland, Will Ospreay and “Hangman” Page. And even that of Dustin Rhodes, on which I don't want to run a thick veil.

I understand the decision. AEW wanted to offer a “fan service” to the Texan public after the bad body that left Adam Cole's announcement, and incidentally, he rewarded Rhodes' trajectory, who did not manage to play metal of such notoriety since his last ostentation of the WWF intercontinental championship (under the character of Goldust), more than a quarter of a century ago. The problem is that not even Texan fans knew how to react, generating an uncomfortable silence, imbued with stupefaction, when “The Natural” consumed the account of three about Daniel Garcia to conquer the TNT champion. Yes ok Kyle Fletcher He could win this gold tomorrow in Dynamite, the impact will no longer be so great. All in: Texas was his night.

Otherwise, All in: Texas accused a less powerful “undercard.” so that we can consider it the best PPV in the history of AEW. Although their results, here, looked logical and conducive, the opening struggle, the male gauntlet casino and the dance to three in pairs did not pass correctly. Especially the two team shocks seemed mere excuses for the “Angles” embodied in their ends. I also can't say that I am excited by a nth return from Cope. Which good whiskey, I prefer Christian Cage alone.

Only the female gauntlet casino rapted above the averagemuch better worked than that of men and with the plus of seeing Syuri debut under the spotlights of Aew, who reproduced A reduced version of the duel he held against Alex Windsor last month in Eve. As I said, Athena could have the honor of breaking the streak of Mercedes Moné, but now, before Toni Storm or against Mono (in case this search revenge), an eventual coronation would not look so valuable.

The narrative arch initiated in Wrestledream 2024 had an outstanding closure to the protection of the Globe Life Field, also establishing a new panorama outside the star scene. And while the reset in these poster stalls was not completely satisfactory, the next television episodes may have just outlined it until consummated in the remainder of summer. Here is the main legacy of All In: Texas: open an exciting and exciting panorama; necessary, especially for the title that now wears “Hangman” Page.

Finally, AEW fired the rifle and the patterning has resonated as if it were a wrestling save.