Nine competitors, starving for a world championship opportunity, battled in the first-ever Casino Ladder Match to kick off the live portion of this year’s show. The first two combatants, to battle for two minutes before the next entrant arrives, were former tag team champions Scorpio Sky and Frankie Kazarian.
With the opportunity at the top prize in the company at stake, they did battle.
A spirited back and forth gave way to the arrival of “Superbad” Kip Sabian. While he distracted SCU, his own tag team partner Jimmy Havoc leveled Sky and Kazarian with a ladder. A German suplex by Kazarian onto the ladder seemingly spelled the end of Havoc’s night.
Darby Allin entered at No. 4 and immediately wiped Sabian and Havoc out with a tope suicida. He leveled Kazarian next and dove off the tallest ladder with his skateboard, looking to eliminate the veteran competitor for good. Instead, he crashed through the ladder, injuring his knees and shins in the process.
Orange Cassidy was out next at No. 5, showing no sense of urgency as he approached the commentary team and asked how he wins the match. The Master of Sloth Style refused to set a ladder up and climb it, instead standing on the ground and looking up at the chip.
Colt Cabana entered the fray at No. 6 and immediately dumped Cassidy to the floor and set up the ladder, looking to end the match as quickly as he could. Sabian and Kazarian tipped the ladder over, crushing Cabana’s fingers in it in the process.
Cassidy teed off on SCU with his trademark shin kicks and wiped the tag team specialists out with a tope.
A fired-up Joey Janela attacked anyone within sight as he entered at No. 7. He dropped Cabana with a missile dropkick, then blasted Kazarian with a steel chair as he prevented him from retrieving the casino chip. Sky blasted Janela with a chair shot of his own.
Luchasaurus arrived at No. 8 and wiped out Janela, then Cabana and Kazarian. He proceeded to send Sabian over the top rope and onto a mass of opposition with a powerbomb. He followed up with a chokeslam to Kazarian onto a ladder.
Allin returned to the fray and delivered a sunset flip bomb to Luchasaurus. Struggling to set up the ladder as he favored his knee, Allin watched as Taz introduced the debuting Brian Cage at No. 9. The former Impact Wrestling world champion manhandled Allin and Sabian, then turned Sky inside out with a release German suplex.
He punished Janela with a superplex and downed Kazarian with a superplex, only for Cassidy to slow him down momentarily. That allowed the other competitors to jump Cage, concluding with Kazarian delivering a ladder to the face.
Working together, the combatants buried Cage under ladders, guardrails and one of the big prop casino chips, seemingly eliminating him from the battle.
Back inside, Cassidy and Sabian fought atop the ladder. Freshly Squeezed dumped Sabian off the ladder and onto another, then did the same to an interfering Penelope Ford. Havoc pulled Cassidy off the ladder and Best Friends hit the ring to negate the constant screwiness of Sabian’s associate.
Marko Stunt appeared, joined Luchasaurus for a chokeslam on Cassidy and wiped out the competition at ringside. Janela battered Cassidy with a ladder and delivered a running Death Valley Driver off the apron, onto the poker chip that buried Cage.
SCU battled atop the ladder until Luchasaurus dumped them to the floor. At ringside, a vengeful Cage rose from his makeshift grave and paired off with the most popular dinosaur in AEW. Cage delivered a nasty powerbomb into a ladder and scaled the ladder.
Allin interrupted but Cage dropped him with the Drill Claw. Taz reappeared, seemingly directing Cage’s attack on Allin, who did not listen to the former ECW champion’s advice in the weeks leading to the event.
Cage retrieved the poker chip, thus earning a future AEW world title opportunity.
Result
Cage defeated Janela, Sky, Kazarian, Allin, Luchasaurus, Sabian, Cassidy and Cabana
Grade
A
Analysis
Above all else, chaos is expected from a spectacle of a match like this. The Casino Ladder Match delivered that in spades. While the high spots and creativity alone would be more than enough to earn it an above-average grade, the stories involved throughout elevated it to another level.
From Sabian, Havoc and Ford trying to steal the win, to Cassidy’s early laziness, to the introduction of Cage and Taz’s revenge on Allin for perceived disrespect, this was loaded with numerous stories to keep fans invested.
The biggest takeaway, of course, was Cage’s debut. He was presented as a total badass, an unstoppable force that will be seemingly impossible to defeat. His introduction, along with Lance Archer, Wardlow and Brodie Lee has the heavyweight portion of the roster brimming with talent.
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