AEW enters this weekend’s All Out pay-per-view searching for a momentum shift.
Following the most disjointed build to a PPV in the company’s three-year history, AEW heads to the Chicago area for All Out on Sunday. It’s a card where the main event wasn’t even officially announced until four days before the show.
That main event will see CM Punk challenge Jon Moxley for the AEW world championship. While Moxley vs. Punk was always the plan for All Out once Punk was cleared to return from his broken foot, AEW has opted to stray from its usual, straightforward world-title-match storytelling for this bout. Moxley was crowned interim champion while Punk was out of action, but AEW didn’t wait until All Out for them to have their unification match. Moxley instead faced Punk on Dynamite last week, demolishing Punk in three minutes to become the undisputed champion. In story line, Punk hurt his foot again early in the match and couldn’t hang with Moxley after the injury.
