Hello and welcome to the AEW full gear 2021 review on Michael Sidjwick joined by fellow

Dudley Boyn Michael Hanford to discuss everything that went down on AEW's latest pay-per-view

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Before we talk for presumably a long time on the details of full gear, what are your general

thoughts on the show? I've watched it twice to try and be able to do that in this introductory

summary bit that we always do, and truthfully, they're lower than they were after the first watch,

and I don't think they were as high as the consensus. Maybe not, maybe that's not the consensus,

maybe I'm just just that. I thought this was a good show, a very good show in places,

and this is a little bit spoiled wrestling fan, this is a little bit chasing the utopia that

AEW has occasionally given us the glimpse of. But my prevailing takeaway before we get into the

my new show is that to me, all out 2021 now feels like a fluke, and the brilliant television

wrestling company can't quite do it on pay-per-view, and I will wait and I will watch and I will

purchase and I will indulge and engage over and over and over again to hopefully see that change,

but like I really, really was rooting for all out to not just be this awesome night,

but to be this confirmation that, oh, they cracked it, and like this was a step back in that

regard for me. Yeah, I wanted to be overwhelmed by how brilliant this show was, how much

you accelerated by almost cruelly in the sense of, they've built this for several months,

it only happens once per quarter, you're meant to want to watch all of it in the same mood,

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