Hangman Page shines for AEW on potentially disastrous night for WWE

A look at AEW’s All In and WWE’s Saturday Night’s Main Event

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In this edition:

• What we learned from All In and Saturday Night’s Main Event

• Evolution II runs tonight

• In case you missed it…

• It wasn’t just pro wrestling this weekend

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What we learned from All In and Saturday Night’s Main Event

That was one hell of a day for pro wrestling.

Hangman Page and Jon Moxley put forth a classic at All In/AEW

AEW presented its All In pay-per-view, which ran for six hours and finished with an absurdly compelling, blood-filled main event. WWE countered with NXT’s Great American Bash in the afternoon, followed by a Saturday Night’s Main Event built around Bill Goldberg’s retirement match.

Wrestling is still looking for its sweet spot. All In ran too long. Saturday Night’s Main Event was plagued by commercial breaks. Instead of listening to Goldberg’s post-match interview, the show ended abruptly. It was fitting that “Diamond” Dallas Page was in the ring beside Goldberg for his farewell address–they were wrestling during the infamous Halloween Havoc in 1998 when the pay-per-view feed cut off.

Goldberg’s farewell should have been televised/WWE

Gunther defeated Goldberg in a fairly competitive match. Shockingly, it surpassed the 14-minute mark, his longest match since defeating Triple H in 2003. Clearly, that was not the original plan for the 58-year-old Goldberg, who was noticeably slower in the ring.