Jim Ross comments on a match from AEW All In 2024 that he thinks went “too long”

During his podcast, Jim Ross reflected on the 2024 AEW All In PPV event…

“I enjoyed the hell out of that show. I thought it was well booked. Talents really picked it up. Being in a locker room, kind of sequestered in a locker room area for, I got there three hours before the show, you kind of get a different perspective of what goes to the talent’s minds regarding preparation. I happened to dress, it was in the announcer’s locker room, but it’s a great, big room, and our our special visitor in that room was Daniel Bryan. He stayed there all day and it was really cool to watch how he mentally and physically prepared for a big match. I can’t stress enough what I saw and what I felt, and I felt that Daniel Bryan was taking this match more seriously than I ever dreamed that anybody would, because it’s pro wrestling. But, man, he took it seriously as hell, and I think it showed in the ring because I felt like those two guys had a hell of a match.”

JR did provide some criticism of Mercedes Mone’s match against Britt Baker…

“I also think that 17 minutes was more time than they needed to tell the story that they needed to tell. Both of them have influence with Tony [Khan]. Tony probably had it in his head. ‘Oh, let’s go about 10 bell to bell’, and that should have been plenty. I’d have signed off on that in a heartbeat, but talent negotiate for more time. They think automatically that if they have more time, their match will automatically be better, which is ridiculous, so I don’t know. I thought the match was too long and people just had not yet quite bought into that story and maybe another month of good TV, they would.” (quotes courtesy of WrestlingNews.co)