I imagine he will be. I just hope he does not suck in a major star.

Okada vs PAC

Great match. Okada is really embracing his heel role. The new Rainmaker pose is brilliant. Okada is going a good job of portraying himself as a guy who cheats to win, but without losing too much of that invincibility aura that makes him The Rainmaker. Okada in Japan would have struggled to the ropes on that Brutaliser, but AEW Okada takes the easy way out and rakes the eyes. PAC, unsurprisingly, hasn't lost a step.


Willow vs Julia

Good for what it was. I hope Willow isn't becoming TBS Champion to be fed to Moné, but that's probably what will happen.


Toni Storm vs Thunder Rosa

Pretty good match, not much to say.


Swerve vs Joe

The correct result but a lousy match. I did not sense great chemistry and it felt rushed. Swerve kicking out of the Muscle Buster was sold as a massive deal by Joe but the crowd weren't into it - a poorly placed false finish. Joe immediately going for the belt didn't fit his character, then the actual finish was kinda weird. I assume a super Swerve Stomp was intended but they botched it. A good enough improvisation to follow but I wish Swerve didn't stand on the top rope for five minutes making Joe look like a dummy.


Ospreay vs Danielson

What can I say? This match delivered, and then some. A perfect match between two of best wrestlers in the world. Despite all that, I still feel the hyperbole is too strong. There were two perfect matches between two of best wrestlers in the world very recently - Danielson vs ZSJ and Danielson vs ZSJ II. I wouldn't say Danielson vs Ospreay was better than those two but certainly on the same level of god tier wrestling.

Everything went perfectly, both men worked hard, every counter, sequence and reversal was executed to perfection, and the anime finish was glorious.

The one thing I didn't like was Danielson faking a serious injury. Didn't we learn anything from that notorious fake seizure? I have no idea what working an injury added to the match. Ospreay already won.

The injury was setting up an angle where Will is not liking what the Don Callis family is turning him into and them turning on him in the future.  He sold it hard at the scrum where he retired the Storm Driver over it.