The Post’s Joseph Staszewski brings you around the world of professional wrestling every Tuesday in his weekly column, the Post Match Angle.

As soon as it was announced that CM Punk and Jon Moxley will square off this week on “Dynamite” to unify the AEW world championship, it raised the obvious questions: Well, what is the main event of All Out now? What’s bigger than the Punk-Moxley match we’ve waited more than two months for?

There are some simple answers. Punk and Moxley wrestle to a draw on Wednesday and the pay-per-view match gets a stipulation — no holds barred, cage or something more creative — to ensure a winner. Who can you add to the match if that’s not the case? With “Hangman” Adam Page and Kenny Omega likely not being options to make it a triple threat, it leaves me with just one person, with links to both Punk and Moxley, who can make this story even bigger.

Maxwell Jacob Friedman.

We haven’t seen or heard from MJF since his “pipe bomb” promo on June 1 where he asked AEW president Tony Khan to fire him and voiced his frustrations about ex-WWE guys making more money than him as the Long Islander is trying to get a new contract from AEW. While MJF hasn’t been spoken of since and is not on the official roster page, we haven’t heard anything to make us believe he isn’t still with AEW. In fact, the Wrestling Observer reported last week that MJF is expected back “somewhat soon” and it feels like no better time than between now and All Out on Sept 4. at Now Arena in Chicago.

There may not be two people in AEW who Friedman hates more than Punk and Moxley, who in real life are ex-WWE guys making more money than him. It was Moxley who used the Paradigm Shift that was supposed to be banned to defeat MJF in his only AEW world championship match at All Out in 2020. MJF, though through nefarious means, is the only person to defeat Punk in AEW. So the story is clearly there. The reports last week that Punk, who called out an unsuspecting Hangman to start his promo last week, is unhappy in AEW and considered leaving — whether it’s true or a work — gives MJF even more material to work off of. Maybe it helps turn MJF, 26, babyface and Punk heel so this chapter of their feud feels different.

So how does this play out in a way that makes sense?

MJF can interfere in Wednesday’s Moxley-Punk match, and smash both of them with the title belt. The show ends with a smug, smiling MJF standing over them raising both belts. Who’s not watching Dynamite next week to see what happens next?

There are a number of ways you can go from there. Punk and Moxley can allow for MJF to be put in the All Out main event with them. If that’s the case and MJF stays heel, I’d have Punk pin Moxley to win and have MJF spend the next few months taking out and beating all the stars in his path to a rematch, especially Hangman and Moxley. A babyface MJF versus Christian Cage to kill some time would also work. You could also put Moxley and Punk in a cage and have MJF close All Out attacking the winner — which should be Punk — on the ramp, but they see it coming and it turns into more of a staredown to set up what’s coming next. AEW is about to enter a key ratings period and needs all their stars available.

All of this could play out similarly, even if MJF doesn’t first appear this Wednesday. He could interject himself at All Out or the Dynamite after. But if MJF is ready to go to work for All Elite Wrestling, now feels like as good a time as any to start doing it again.   

Johnny Gargano is back in WWE in a complete surprise moment like he wanted it – basically just walking onto “Monday Night Raw” with no tease or no set up. Gargano, who had been away for nine months after leaving NXT, then delivered a promo that reminded fans that his genuineness and every-man nature make him just so dam easy to root for. He gives WWE yet another uber-over babyface – but in the needed underdog Daniel Bryan variety.

The smugness and entitlement coming out from his former protégé in The Way, Theory, was the perfect balance. It kicks off – literally — one of the many cool stories WWE can tell with Gargano, who got what felt like a true homecoming. It even included a “Baby Wrestling” chant from his son Quill. The question for WWE now is do you make Theory to put his Money in the Bank briefcase on the line versus Gargano or make Johnny slowly climb the ladder?  It feels way too soon for Gargano to be Mr. Money in the Bank, but it is certainly a logical storyline path to take if Triple H wants to.  

One of the most interesting things that came out of WWE’s earning call last Tuesday was co-CEO Nick Khan saying the company got a subsidy from Cardiff, Wales to host Clash at the Castle there on Sept. 3 and they are looking to replicate the model with their premium live events moving forward. WWE has traditionally received bids from cities — like the Super Bowl — for WrestleMania, SummerSlam, etc., and it now sounds like it’s WWE’s hope that those will need to also include a subsidy number.

Yes, huge WWE events bring significant economic impact to their host city and this would be a way to get some added value back to the company from staging them there. How many cities will be willing to do the same as Cardiff, and whether premium live events start to go to the highest bidder, remains to be seen. The U.K. hasn’t had a WWE stadium pay-per-view since SummerSlam 1992, so there was great incentive for Cardiff to help make it happen. We will see how many other cities follow.

Give the returning Kenny Omega credit for paying attention to the small details that always add to the story he’s telling. Omega portrayed that he isn’t quite 100-percent recovered from his injuries and is a little rusty after more than 200 days away from the ring. Omega, uncharacteristically wore a black shirt for the trios championship tournament match with the Young Bucks on Dynamite. Some of his moves weren’t done smoothly and he played up all of his different injuries by showing lingering pain. It seems like we are going to get the story of Omega leveling back up to the height of his powers. 

Dexter Lumis kidnapping Miz and potentially having an accomplice it the type of secondary storyline WWE was really lacking in years past. It makes it ask questions and feel the need to keep watching for things to be revealed.

Everything about Daniel Bryan and Daniel Garcia’s two-out-of-three-falls match was just perfect and beautiful pro wrestling. It ended with Bryan winning with a LeBell Lock in honor of judo and wrestling legend Gene LeBell, who died at the age of 89 on Aug. 10. Then to have Garcia push Jericho away from Bryan after such a great match just moved us toward the young star finally linking up with Blackpool Combat Club where he belongs. Even the crowd started chanting, “You’re a wrestler!” in what felt like such a huge moment for Garcia.

If you were wonder where Bray Wyatt may land should he return to wrestling, one fan may have decoded a hidden clue in his recent cryptic tweets. Wyatt even liked the fan’s tweet.

There is less heel and more “Stone Cold” Steve Austin in Ronda Rousey right now.

Even with it being pretty obvious NXT UK champion Tyler Bate showing up after NXT champion Bron Breakker defeated J.D. McDonough sets up a fun match at Worlds Collide, all of it still feels like too much challenger-of-the-week booking around Breakker.

How many people have it better than Hook right now? Dude is FTW champion and hasn’t had a singles match go longer than 4:58. His one this week on Rampage lasted 30 seconds.

When Raw went off the air, Edge at told the Toronto crowd he may want to have one of – if not his last matches – in Canada next year.

If you ask me, I’d already start booking Will Ospreay vs. Kazuchika Okada for the IWGP world heavy weight title at Wrestle Kingdom 2024. Ospreay is 1-7 all-time against his former mentor if Chaos, including losses in this year’s Wrestle Kingdom main event and now this year’s G1 Climax final. Ospreay winning a big one over Okada should be a massive deal this would be the best way to do it.    

It was such a small thing but absolutely loved Mandy Rose pulling Zoey Stark away from the ropes prior to the pin to get the win. Showed great ring awareness and crushed all hope of Stark grabbing the rope. 

Bonus: Outside of Toma Tonga – who has proven he belongs in the main event scene — reaching the semifinals, I pretty much nailed my G1 Climax 23 block predictions, the final and winner.

Kazuchika Okada, New Japan Pro Wrestling

The Rainmaker won his second straight G1 Climax tournament, and fourth overall last week with a win over rival Will Ospreay in a sensational final match after a semifinal that helped Toma Tonga’s standing as a rising singles star. Okada is now on a collision course with IWGP world heavyweight champion Jay White for the main event of Wrestle Kingdom 17. White took the belt off Okada at Dominion in June.  

CM Punk vs. Jon Moxley, AEW world championship unification (Dynamite, Wednesday, TBS, 8 p.m.)

We’ve waited more than two months to get this match and AEW is set to give it to us on free TV. Between reports of CM Punk’s unhappiness, the violence we may see, the possibility of an MJF return and to see how the company gets the title to All Out, this is the match to be glued to this week.