Note On Why Paul Wight vs. QT Marshall Was Where It Was On The AEW All Out Card

Paul Wight defeated QT Marshall last night at AEW All Out, in a match that went just over three minutes. It may have surprised people that it happened in between the CM Punk vs. Darby Allin and Kenny Omega vs. Christian Cage matches.

According to Dave Meltzer in the latest Wrestling Observer Radio, the match was placed where it was because of the timing of the show. It was felt that some of the matches might end up going long, so the belief was that if they had to remove a match, that would have been the match to remove. Instead, it ended up on the card as a short match between the two main events.

AEW All Out also featured Kenny Omega defeating Impact Wrestling Champion Christian Cage in the main event to retain the AEW World Championship, CM Punk defeating Darby Allin in his return to the ring, Chris Jericho defeating MJF, the Lucha Bros defeating the Young Bucks in a steel cage match, Jon Moxley defeating Satoshi Kojima, Britt Baker defeating Kris Statlander, Miro defeating Eddie Kingston, and the AEW debut of another former WWE star, Ruby Soho, who won the Casino Battle Royale. Many are already calling the show one of the greatest in the history of professional wrestling. Check out our complete AEW All Out results for the rest of the results. This sets up a highly anticipated episode of AEW Dynamite on Wednesday night and raises the question of how WWE will respond on WWE television (Smackdown and WWE RAW) after countering CM Punk debuting on AEW Rampage with Brock Lesnar returning at Summerslam. Cole said after All Out that he himself was surprised when he realized his WWE contract was expiring as soon as it did, paving the way for a new deal with AEW.

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