Will Ospreay’s primary story is his rivalry, and seemingly now, broken friendship, with Kenny Omega going into their AEW World Championship match at All In, but “The Aerial Assassin’s” other major story in recent weeks and months, his relationship with the Death Riders, felt seriously missed tonight. Coming off the massive breakup angle between Ospreay and Moxley at AEW Redemption, it felt pretty weird.
Obviously, there isn’t any real technique to do Moxley vs. Ospreay before Wembley Stadium, but there must be some technique to sustain Ospreay’s momentum with the leader of the Death Riders, assuming Moxley is his first challenger post-All In when he wins the title. Perhaps the story with Omega is just too big to accomplish that, however it looks like they’re attempting to do something there, as Ospreay is facing Daniel Garcia on “Collision.” But Garcia isn’t any Moxley.
Even before that segment with Garcia’s challenge, nevertheless, the Death Riders opened the show with a reasonably anti-climactic confrontation with their now-former member. Garcia called him “young boy, Bill,” which he’d call him again later within the night, which grated on my nerves in a way I’m sure it’s alleged to, and Ospreay hit him for it.
Moxley held PAC back from Ospreay, who told Moxley he “didn’t get to drag the trigger for him,” and he gave back the patch and said he was “out.” Then, the Death Riders form of just walked away, and Ospreay got right into a way more interesting conversation with “Hangman” Adam Page, something the Detroit crowd was more enthusiastic about.
Of their backstage segment later, Garcia challenged Ospreay and was the one to handle him, saying that Ospreay all the time walks away from things once they get hard. Looks as if something Moxley could have said, in a way more eloquent way, but when AEW desired to get to the match tomorrow, I assume that made sense. Moxley then didn’t talk about “The Aerial Assassin” in any respect, and as a substitute talked in regards to the “morality police” and said he was bored with talking in regards to the way they do things in comparison with how others do them. It just, again, felt weird for him to not address the most important elephant within the room.
Perhaps Ospreay goes through the Death Riders, one-by-one within the weeks leading as much as All In, then goes face-to-face with Moxley once he has the title. It just seems reasonably prolonged, nevertheless, and like AEW was attempting to do an excessive amount of with two different stories, with not enough time between Redemption and All In.
Written by Daisy Ruth