Welcome to the Busted Open After Dark podcast. I'm your host Tommy Dreamer. And tonight's AEW show

really gave me a lot of hope for the future and an in-depth analysis of how AEW can benefit from everything from this show.

This is the busted open podcast.

I gotta be honest, leading up to tonight's show, I had not the highest expectations or

I was excited for the pay-per-view.

And then tonight's show hit.

And not only am I excited for the pay-per-view.

I'm also excited for AEW's future.

And I am going to really, really break down a lot of stuff.

And I don't even care about controversy because again what I saw was a very, very hopeful

future when things are done correctly.

And tonight show I thought there were a lot of things done correctly.

And then there was also some excellent, excellent stuff and some really good to

great matches. I will start with the very, very quick negative and then I will move on.

Number one, and here's why, because for a while it's cool to hate on

AEW and I friggin hate that. So if everybody is hating on you for something, you know what you do,

you make sure you correct it. So you don't give your haters any reason to hate.

And tonight's show, there was really no reason to hate,

but more so to love what AEWs did tonight.

The multi-tag match in the beginning,

when they did the 31 punches. You have eight men and a manager

on the apron and the referee the whole time is counting. If you're supposed to break at four

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