Paid Members BomberPat Posted November 28, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted November 28, 2023 7 minutes ago, Carbomb said: I thought they'd already made a load of fuss about some Triple Crown belt for that tournament? yeah, the current tournament is for the Continental Championship/ROH World Title/NJPW Strong Title. As much as something like that could and perhaps should take a backseat to the World Championship, it wouldn't be a good look for the first of what's presumably intended to be an annual tournament. They're probably regretting burning through the "World Champion works through an injury" and "World Champion's friend offers to defend the title in his place due to injury" options in one match, before they needed to. Luckily, one of the few positives of how overbooked this whole reign has been is that it leads them with a lot of options of how to write their way out of this if needed, even if some of them would feel like a downer, or make for poor TV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members LaGoosh Posted November 28, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted November 28, 2023 (edited) Do a big multi-man at World's End for the title, MJF can do the bare minimum then drop the belt without getting pinned or something along those lines. You could easily weave in the Don Callis story and others to do something like: MJF vs Samoa Joe vs Takeshita vs Hobbs vs Jericho vs Omega vs Wardlow vs Roderick Strong Big crazy match where MJF doesn't really do too much. Edited November 28, 2023 by LaGoosh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted November 28, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted November 28, 2023 I'd say don't have MJF drop the belt. Just say he has to vacate it, so that when he comes back, he's the champ who never lost the belt - then you have him chase his nemesis for it, who keeps putting up obstacles in his way. Old-style booking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted November 28, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted November 28, 2023 2 minutes ago, Carbomb said: I'd say don't have MJF drop the belt. Just say he has to vacate it, so that when he comes back, he's the champ who never lost the belt - then you have him chase his nemesis for it, who keeps putting up obstacles in his way. Old-style booking. Don't AEW have a precedent for that "Interim champion" bollocks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted November 28, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted November 28, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, air_raid said: Don't AEW have a precedent for that "Interim champion" bollocks? they do, but at the last PPV they were going to just hand the title to Jay White if MJF couldn't defend it, so they're clearly not too fussed about a consistent approach these days, just whatever serves the story. Edited November 28, 2023 by BomberPat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lorne Malvo Posted November 28, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted November 28, 2023 I think they've done away with the 'interim' bollocks. It just didn't work. AEW retroactively upgrading Toni Storm from former Interim champion to former proper champion felt like them admitting it was a mistake and they haven't done it since. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members JNLister Posted November 28, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted November 28, 2023 Unfortunate that the real world champion hasn't defended the title since beating Samoa Joe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The King Of Swing Posted November 28, 2023 Share Posted November 28, 2023 Joe should absolutely destroy MJF for the title, imo. Even without the injury, I felt that we were reaching the natural end of MJF's title reign. Or just give it to Mox, again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted November 28, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted November 28, 2023 We just all need to be hopeful that the sponsorship of Woo Energy doesn't come with a match of Flair's choice that he gets to win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snitsky's back acne Posted November 28, 2023 Share Posted November 28, 2023 Spoiler tagging this as I have no idea how funny people are about these things.... Spoiler Zak Knight is apparently set to debut in some capacity tomorrow. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ReturnOfTheMack Posted November 28, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted November 28, 2023 6 minutes ago, Snitsky's back acne said: Spoiler tagging this as I have no idea how funny people are about these things.... Â Reveal hidden contents Zak Knight is apparently set to debut in some capacity tomorrow. Â Spoiler Hopefully as part of The Patriarchy. Just because I'll find it funny. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinity Land Posted November 28, 2023 Share Posted November 28, 2023 30 minutes ago, Snitsky's back acne said: Spoiler tagging this as I have no idea how funny people are about these things.... Â Reveal hidden contents Zak Knight is apparently set to debut in some capacity tomorrow. Â Â Spoiler There's been talk of a Dark match ever since Saraya debuted. Doubt its more than that. With the demise of the Youtube shows we'll never have to see it. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snitsky's back acne Posted November 28, 2023 Share Posted November 28, 2023 52 minutes ago, Infinity Land said:   Hide contents There's been talk of a Dark match ever since Saraya debuted. Doubt its more than that. With the demise of the Youtube shows we'll never have to see it.  Spoiler He has apparently relocated to America so I doubt it is just a one off.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d-d-d-dAz Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 Well, this is a shame. Between this, and her (and Jack Perry) liking some wallies tweet about MJF ‘ruining the feeling’ of AEW, you just start to wish these guys could speak to one another and get off social media. A fine Dynamite, everything just feels a bit muted at the minute. The Devil having fonts, graphics and branded gear for his mates felt a bit lame. I’m rooting for them so hard that they land this Devil thing and get the momentum back they had pre-Wembley. The Copeland/Christian stuff is fun, and Edge is doing his best work in years. I just wish he’d gone round the AEW houses before landing on Christian. I’d love to see Edge/Omega, Page, MJF etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chili Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 I like Britt Baker but there was a time a lot of other people on the roster could have used her TV time to make a point about their lack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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