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The Duality of Wrestling Twitter All Elite Wrestling held the 4th annual All In event at Wembley Stadium in London, England. It was  highlighted by one of the greatest matches in AEW history, its stellar main event, and a chaotic card with mostly good, fast-paced contests that kept the show moving at a brisk pace.  It's become clear that All In isn't meant to feature a card full of one-on-one dream matches, which I'll get into later in this post; instead, Tony Khan has opted to fit as many members of his stacked roster onto the card as possible. All In's main card featured a Trios Roulette Royale, a Three-Way Match, and a Casino Gauntlet, while the pre-show was loaded with 3.5 multi-man tag matches (the Gauntlet started towards the end of the Buy In).  We also saw the debuts of the former New Day - now collectively known as The New Level - and they're allied with former AEW World Heavyweight Champion Swerve Strickland. Their presence in AEW certainly feels signifi...

World Wrestling Entertainment loses another. Earlier this afternoon, Mike Johnson of PW Insider revealed that Ilja Dragunov has opted to depart WWE following an uneven seven-year tenure. Dragunov, 32, was quickly and unceremoniously shifted to the Alumni section of WWE.com's roster page. False Finish, a WWE-friendly media outlet, added that WWE hoped to retain Dragunov, but he ultimately chose to let his contract expire and officially enter free agency. Dragunov, a gifted professional wrestler, last competed in this year's Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal - where Aleister Black eliminated him. Let's cut right to the chase: Tony Khan should aggressively pursue Dragunov : On paper, it's difficult to imagine a better fit than Dragunov and All Elite Wrestling. He's only 32 years old and wrestles a style that is far more appropriate for AEW and its partner promotion, New Japan Pro Wrestling, than it was for WWE. I've already seen a million tweets pegging him as ...