AEW Double or Nothing 2021

• Singles (Brian Cage vs. Adam Page): 4/7. These two are both good, and I guess it's building the Team Taz story, but it wasn't clear what the point of the actual match was supposed to be.
• AEW Tag Team Championship (Jon Moxley & Eddie Kingston vs. The Young Bucks): 4/7. Both teams are good, but the match didn't really interest me because it was pretty clear which way it was going to go.
• Casino Battle Royale (21 competitors): 6/7. I always love a battle royale. This wasn't the best one, but it wasn't bad.
• Singles (Anthony Ogogo vs. Cody Rhodes): 4/7. The framing where the American is automatically the good guy just doesn't work for me (or, I suspect, for most people outside of America) and so the story they're trying to tell is in conflict with the reality that Anthony's been making some very good points and Cody's been... bad. The match was ok though, and I must admit I did like Cody's outfit.
• TNT Championship (Miro vs. Lance Archer): 6/7. Took a bit for me to get into it, but once I did I was 100% on board.
• AEW Women's Championship (Shida Hikaru vs. Dr. Britt Baker): 5/7. Had a few good moments, but everyone knew how this was going to end and it took a bit long to get there.
• Tag Team (Sting & Darby Allin vs. Scorpio Sky & Ethan Page): 2/7. Why do they keep saying this is Sting's first match in six years? He was in the stupid street fight at Revolution. I bumped this up a point because Page held Allin over his head and threw him, like, two metres. It was pretty awesome. But I could not give less of a shit about Sting or Darby Allin.
• AEW Men's Championship Triple Threat (Pac vs. Orange Cassidy vs. Kenny Omega): 6/7. Almost great, but this Kenny/Bucks/Good Brothers team just doesn't work for me.
• Stadium Stampede (The Pinnacle vs. The Inner Circle): 6/7. Some very good pieces that didn't really mesh at all. You could probably fix it with editing and get a 7/7.

Overall Rating: 5/7. Nothing was quite as good as it should have been, and some things could easily have been cut. Like the two non-championship singles matches - they weren't bad, they just didn't need to be there. They could have been on Dynamite.