AEW All Elite Wrestling #8: Grabbing the Brass Ring of Honor

[Emperoreddy]

I don't think you can trust him to come back clean and stay clean. He shouldn't be wrestling anymore

 

[Blitzkrug]

I don't think you can trust him to come back clean and stay clean. He shouldn't be wrestling anymore

No, but Tony can score the PR points for trying to help the guy. If he f***s up, Tony can just dust his hands of it and say "welp I tried"

I have a weird feeling he knows that too. Offer him rehab knowing full well he'll reject it so you can just tear his contract up and be done with it.

Smart PR play and the people saying the punishment isn't harsh enough can't think for themselves. As evidenced by the human article reposter who hasn't had a single original thought in years saying it's not enough

Jeff Hardy will not step foot in an AEW ring again.

 

[Troublesome 85]

The statement AEW put out and the fans eating it up have me laughing.

“Free jeff”
“Get better jeff”

Now AEW wanna put him in rehab

OH LORD

 

[Troublesome 85]

The one where they drunkenly (Or something else) bashed Punk for pointing out that they're completely unreliable addicts?

They definitely showed him.

Its comedy gold. U got drunk Jeff Hardy just being drunk and weird while drunk/high fat Matt is in the background chomping on fries.

Then Matt starts dissing Punk over Lita

 

[Scandale du Jour]

I don't think you can trust him to come back clean and stay clean. He shouldn't be wrestling anymore

You probably can't.

But, as an employer, Khan did the most sensible thing he could do.

Offer him the help he needs. Now, the ball is in Jeff's court.

 

[Sheppy]

You probably can't.

But, as an employer, Khan did the most sensible thing he could do.

Offer him the help he needs. Now, the ball is in Jeff's court.

This is it. I don't think he belongs in a ring anymore, but Khan handled this well.

 

[Peter Sidorkiewicz]

No, but Tony can score the PR points for trying to help the guy. If he f***s up, Tony can just dust his hands of it and say "welp I tried"

I have a weird feeling he knows that too. Offer him rehab knowing full well he'll reject it so you can just tear his contract up and be done with it.

Smart PR play and the people saying the punishment isn't harsh enough can't think for themselves. As evidenced by the human article reposter who hasn't had a single original thought in years saying it's not enough

Jeff Hardy will not step foot in an AEW ring again.

I agree with this. Jeff refused WWE rehab. If he does the same with AEW rehab, AEW can wipe their hands clean and just terminate him without any PR backlash.

 

[Troublesome 85]

I was watching the last Hardys intro and I saw Matt and got mad. Started think Matt has been trash for 95% of his career and im being kind. I feel like enabled his brother cuz he knows his days are numbered and everyone loved Jeff more than him. So either he enabled, helped or willfully ignored his own brothers issues.

Also Jeff should retire. Hell be 50 in a few years. Hes not Ric Flair or one of these old dudes who still in shape and didnt high fly. He just needs to retired, cut off his brother and go somewhere with his family and find peace.

 

[NextBigThing]

What's the deal with all the tournaments? I'm reading the results of the past couple months and my head is spinning trying to figure out what is going on. Seems like lazy booking.

 

[GKJ]

Tana is here

 

[The Burdened]

what an overbooked mess

 

[GKJ]

Jericho and Suzuki teaming should be pretty cool.

 

[Troublesome 85]

AEW and its 2000 wrestler roster

 

[GKJ]

They really have Excalibur say too much shit

 

[Scandale du Jour]

They put the titles on the f***ing Bucks? Ewwww

 

[canucksfan]

They put the titles on the f***ing Bucks? Ewwww

I can't stand the Young Bucks.

Also, I think they are going to ruin Wardlow's momentum.

 

[BostonBob]

Jericho talks about how the JAS reinvigorated him.

from tsn.ca:

The one constant in the 30-plus-year career of Chris Jericho has been change.

Forever reinventing his character and presentation, Jericho once again embarked on something new this past March in the formation of the Jericho Appreciation Society (JAS), a new heel faction that has embraced the “sports entertainment” aspect of professional wrestling, something that rankles the All Elite Wrestling fan base.

For Jericho, the new direction represented a logical progression of his character.

“I would like to say that I sit down with a pen and paper and write down a year’s worth of ideas and material and it’s all genius and it all comes together exactly the way I planned, but it’s not like that,” Jericho told TSN.ca. “You’ve just got to go with the flow and read the room and see where you’re at week by week and go where the story takes you. You let the story lead you, rather than try to lead the story.”

After a lengthy run as heels, the Inner Circle, the faction formed on the very first edition of Dynamite in 2019, turned babyface in the spring of 2021. By the end of the year and into the beginning of 2022, Jericho found himself feuding with fellow popular babyface Eddie Kingston. Friends with Inner Circle members Santana and Ortiz, Kingston began to tell the duo that Jericho was holding them back. As the feud progressed, it appeared as if Jericho and Kingston were going to have to join forces to take on the crew of Daniel Garcia and 2point0 (Montreal’s Matt Menard and Angelo Parker), who had started terrorizing the both of them.

Jericho confirms that it was indeed the intended plan.

“I saw Eddie Kingston, and much like I did with Orange Cassidy, MJF, Sammy Guevara or any of the guys I was working with over the past couple of years, I knew he could be a much bigger star if I could paint my picture the way I wanted to create it,” Jericho said. “Eddie was just the perfect guy to work with and my plan would be, I accuse him of not being able to win the big one, then he wins the big one [against Jericho at the 2022 Revolution pay-per-view in February] and we become kind of a ragtag, surly veteran tag team and maybe even connect with [Kingston’s ally Jon] Moxley. Then I had some issues that postponed things and then he had some issues that postponed things and then the story started to go in a different direction. That’s when I thought this might be much better if we actually faced each other and kind of start a whole new thing. But yeah, the original direction was for us to be partners, but it ended up with us being in a blood feud for the last six months, so it worked out pretty good.”


Full story: www.tsn.ca/reinvigorated-as-a-heel-chris-jericho-soaks-in-the-appreciation-1.1813396

 

[GKJ]

They put the titles on the f***ing Bucks? Ewwww

That tells me the Hardys were getting the titles

 

[Apex Predator]

Putting the titles on the Bucks I think is something to move the story for bucks and Adam Cole and his minions.

 

[The Burdened]

Happy Cage finally turned heel!

Also, kayfabe wise is there a bigger geek than Sammy Guevara?
- is Jericho's lackey in a Jericho led stable
- finally tries to be on his own
- gets a bunch of TNT title reigns
- flops
- 4-months later is right back to being Jericho's lackey in a Jericho led stable

 

[GKJ]

Thinking about how WWE saw the best use of Toni Storm was throwing pies at her

 

[Scandale du Jour]

That tells me the Hardys were getting the titles

Tells me the Bucks are huge marks for their overrated selves.

 

[GKJ]

Tells me the Bucks are huge marks for their overrated selves.

They didn’t book themselves to win the titles.

 

[Scandale du Jour]

They didn’t book themselves to win the titles.

They are EVP and are reportedly in charge of the tag division.

Sure, Tony takes the decision ultimately, but you can be sure those guys lobbied for it.

 

[Unholy Diver]

Thinking about how WWE saw the best use of Toni Storm was throwing pies at her

I think I read somewhere the original plan was for her to get her clothes ripped off and be stripped to her underwear which she wasn't crazy about, and getting pied was the "compromise"