All Out 2022: Great Wrestling Gets Buried beneath a Chaotic Night

Tay Melo pinned Ruby Soho with the Tay-KO to preserve her and Sammy Guevara's AAA World Mixed Tag Team Championship against Soho and Ortiz. The Zero Hour fight started before the bell with the challengers pursuing Sammy in a golf cart, and the physicality never settled into a routine tag exhibition. Ortiz nearly upended the champions after a Death Valley Driver, while Melo delivered a Canadian Destroyer onto Ortiz after Guevara launched her. Anna Jay's interference at ringside was the final complication: she grabbed Soho's legs before the Tay-KO put Ruby down. The assessment reflects a busy, interference-driven title defense, with the legal finishing pin belonging to Melo rather than to Guevara.

HOOK made Angelo Parker tap to Redrum after countering Parker's attempt at a brainbuster, preserving the FTW Championship in a brief Zero Hour defense. Parker briefly seized an opening when Matt Menard distracted the champion, but HOOK recovered with judo throws, a headbutt and an exploder suplex before locking on the submission. The bout's aftermath also had a distinct purpose: Menard attacked after the bell, drawing Action Bronson from the audience to assist HOOK. Neither Menard nor Bronson was a participant in the sanctioned title contest. The short-match assessment fits the short match length, while the submission and outside confrontation distinguish it from a generic squash.

PAC pinned Kip Sabian after landing the Black Arrow to retain the AEW All-Atlantic Championship, ending a defense that Sabian repeatedly disrupted with unusual pacing. Sabian nearly turned the result with a dragon suplex and a DDT, then retreated from an earlier Black Arrow attempt before turning to the box head at ringside and arguing with it. PAC had already survived Sabian's split-legged moonsault and landed a brainbuster on the arena floor; the champion finally found the clean opening for the aerial finish. Orange Cassidy confronted PAC on the stage only after the result, while Sabian's argument with the box continued inside. The aftermath did not change the recorded pinfall or the titleholder. The assessment recognizes the specific title story and eccentric challenger.

Eddie Kingston pinned Tomohiro Ishii with the Northern Lights Bomb to close their non-title Zero Hour match after a sustained battle of chops and lariats. Ishii initially absorbed Kingston's strikes and answered with more of his own, then responded to a Kingston DDT with a suplex. The final exchange built from Kingston's powerbomb near fall to Ishii's lariat and Kingston's spinning backfist before the finishing bomb. Neither wrestler depended on an outside ally or championship stipulation to explain the intensity: they tested how much punishment the other could endure. The evaluation rewards the unusual level of physical detail for a pre-show match and identifies Kingston's actual pinfall rather than a stoppage.

The Casino Ladder Match ended when a masked member of Stokely Hathaway's group retrieved the hanging poker chip, and Hathaway handed it to the masked joker entrant, later revealed as MJF. AEW announced the joker as winner; this was not a normal pinfall, submission or one-on-one victory by MJF. Claudio Castagnoli, Wheeler Yuta, Rey Fenix, Penta El Zero Miedo, Rush, Andrade El Idolo and Dante Martin had contested an increasingly hazardous ladder fight, including Andrade's powerbomb from one ladder onto another and Penta's Destroyer onto a ladder. The sudden mass interference redirected the result from the in-ring field to the anonymous entrant who had been promised a future world title shot. The later unmasking made the finish a major storyline reveal. The evaluation credits its consequence while recognizing the takeover rather than a sporting ladder win.

Kenny Omega pinned John Silver after Adam Page accidentally struck his Dark Order partner with a Buckshot Lariat, making the Elite the inaugural AEW World Trios Champions. Page had nearly secured the result through his former allies' coordinated offense, including a pendulum bomb on Matt Jackson; Omega broke up that cover. Omega's V-Trigger and Tiger Driver on Page failed to finish the match, and Silver countered a One-Winged Angel attempt before the accidental blow created the decisive opening. The champion trio was Omega and the Young Bucks, not Page and his Dark Order partners, and the match crowned its first titleholders rather than defending an existing reign. The assessment reflects how the final reversal integrated the group's personal history into the tournament result.

Jade Cargill pinned Athena with Jaded to retain the AEW TBS Championship after Kiera Hogan's attempted interference drew Athena away from the champion. Athena had rallied with a crossbody, a stunner and an attempted O-Face, but Cargill blocked the latter and used the distraction to set up her finish. Leila Grey was knocked into the guardrail earlier, while Kiera's intervention later became the opening Cargill needed. Kiera and Grey accompanied the champion and were not separate championship challengers. The quick defense reinforced Cargill's unbeaten status while giving Athena brief chances to test her. The evaluation reflects its short duration rather than a disputed title result.

Wardlow pinned Jay Lethal after delivering four consecutive powerbombs, giving himself and FTR a six-man victory over Lethal and the Motor City Machine Guns. Sabin and Shelley had frustrated FTR with their tandem offense, including an attack on Cash Wheeler's knee at the ring post, before Wardlow entered to change the pace. FTR's Big Rig on Shelley helped set up the closing sequence, but Wardlow's powerbombs on Lethal decided the legal contest. Samoa Joe appeared after the bell to stop Satnam Singh, and Dax Harwood's daughter joined the postmatch celebration involving Sonjay Dutt; neither incident belongs in the official finish. The assessment credits effective tag coordination and a decisive pin without confusing the many wrestlers at ringside with the six legal participants.

Powerhouse Hobbs pinned Ricky Starks after a spinebuster, ending their grudge match quickly despite the buildup between former Team Taz allies. Hobbs first suplexed Starks and mocked his familiar pose; Starks then crashed into the corner on a missed spear and struggled with his neck. A late DDT gave Starks an opening, but Hobbs pressed his advantage with a boot to the head and the decisive spinebuster. The winner did not need a manager, a weapon or a submission hold to finish the contest. The evaluation reflects an abrupt, story-driven result that established Hobbs' physical dominance without offering the longer exchange suggested by the rivalry.

Keith Lee and Swerve Strickland retained the AEW World Tag Team Championship after finally combining to finish Anthony Bowens, despite an Acclaimed comeback that nearly ended the reign. Bowens hurt his knee during the contest, and Strickland repeatedly targeted it, yet the challenger survived long enough to team with Max Caster on a near-winning Arrival and Mic Drop sequence. Lee interrupted that cover before Caster and Bowens could finish the job. The champions had their own coordination problems: Lee accidentally struck Swerve when Caster moved aside, and Swerve later hit Lee during another exchange. Their closing powerbomb and diving stomp combination on Bowens survived those miscommunications. The deciding pin belongs to the reigning team, not to the Acclaimed, and the title stayed with Swerve In Our Glory.

Toni Storm pinned Jamie Hayter after a DDT to capture the interim AEW Women's World Championship in a four-way also involving Britt Baker and Hikaru Shida. The challengers cycled through narrow openings: Shida returned from an attack on the ramp with kendo sticks, Hayter hit a tombstone on Storm, and Baker pulled the referee away when Hayter appeared close to a pin. Storm responded with Storm Zero on Hayter before Baker attempted to steal that cover; Storm then struck Baker with a DDT and returned to pin Hayter after another DDT. The result was a specific four-way pinfall on Hayter, not a victory over the absent full champion or a submission by Baker. The assessment credits Storm's ability to survive the shifting alliances and exploit the last opening.

Christian Cage pinned Jungle Boy Jack Perry with the Killswitch in a match that lasted only seconds after Luchasaurus ambushed Perry before the bell. Luchasaurus appeared from the opposite entrance during Perry's walk, chokeslammed him onto the metal entrance area, then powerbombed him through the timekeeper's table in front of Perry's family. Perry nevertheless insisted that the referee start the match. Christian capitalized immediately with a spear and the Killswitch for the pin, turning an advertised grudge match into a calculated trap rather than an athletic singles showcase. Luchasaurus was an interfering accomplice, not an additional official competitor. The brief result is inseparable from the prebell betrayal and the family-facing punishment that created it.

Chris Jericho pinned Bryan Danielson after a low blow during the referee's distraction and a Judas Effect, winning a long non-title singles encounter that shifted repeatedly between submissions and strikes. Danielson tried the LeBell Lock, Cattle Mutilation and a running knee, but Jericho found escapes and forced Danielson to the ropes during several holds. Jericho countered a top-rope hurricanrana into the Walls of Jericho and later applied the Liontamer, while Danielson fought back with kicks and another submission attempt. Daniel Garcia watched backstage before Jericho's allies celebrated after the result; neither observation nor the postmatch celebration explains the winning pin. The foul blow immediately preceding the Judas Effect does, and keeps the match's official finish distinct from a technical submission.

Darby Allin pinned Malakai Black with the Last Supper cradle after Sting sprayed mist into Black's eyes, giving Allin, Sting and Miro a six-man victory over House of Black. The opponents had repeatedly isolated Darby, and Julia Hart distracted the referee at one point to stop a legal Miro tag from being recognized. Sting eventually met Black in the ring, applied the Scorpion Death Lock and fought off interruption from Brody King and Buddy Matthews. When Darby returned, Miro collided with the steel steps during an attempted charge outside; Sting's mist provided the immediate opening for Darby's roll-up. The recorded result was a pin on Black, not a pin on Matthews or King and not a championship defense. Hart remained in the opposing corner rather than a legal fourth participant.

CM Punk pinned Jon Moxley after two consecutive Go to Sleep knee strikes to recapture the AEW World Championship. Moxley had survived an earlier GTS attempt and repeatedly attacked Punk's bloodied forehead after driving him into the ring post. The champion then battered Punk with a piledriver, a figure-four and a bulldog choke, but Punk escaped the decisive submissions and kept countering. Moxley even hit the Death Rider for a near fall before another choke attempt set up Punk's late reversal. The second GTS completed the pinfall and title change, distinct from the postmatch reveal in which the Casino Ladder Match joker unmasked as MJF and confronted the new champion. The aftermath advanced the next rivalry; it did not alter the match's winner.