AEW All Elite Wrestling #9: Mox Aggressor Brings the Blood

[Emperoreddy]

Apparently not meant to screw Starks over. It's for all of GCW and it's because Effy was saying some stupid shit

 

[Blitzkrug]

Effy and Lauderdale running their mouths about how Shad Khan thinks his son is a piece of shit without realizing that could do serious damage to the working relationship between GCW and AEW. Good job dipshits.

Probably not going to help to rift between Starks and Tony either even if the latter is justified in this decision.

Starks/Cardona probably happens under another promotion now as well.

 

[GKJ]

That very well could be...I wouldn't be shocked if that were the case.

Cody definitely could have done that for AEW (I believe) with the simple heel turn...

Him leaving definitely started the downturn, but he was already stale in AEW by that time. And he has well past that for me in WWE...but I'm not the average fan that is still way into him

Cody took it upon himself to take himself out of ever winning the AEW championship. It was his idea. To then leave to go win it in WWE, it implicitly lowers the ceiling and value of AEW’s titles and thus AEW itself. He was doing the same character in both to that point. Even still is to some degree. I wouldn’t go as far to say he did what he did as a shadow agent to WWE. He did not want to go heel because he was playing the corporate man, most visible face within the company. He was the John Cena. And he proved to WWE he could do it as he was doing it in AEW. It was specifically what he was told by Vince he couldn’t do.

And at the same time, what he was doing was early to the benefit of the industry as a whole. Establishing AEW as a place to go for guys who weren’t getting to or making it or were happy in WWE to make a career. Impossible for any of the talent or backstage workers to feel like he used them. It’s been better for everybody.

He’s got 100x more instincts for the Business than anyone we’ve seen since the rise of Steve Austin.

 

[Fro]

Cody took it upon himself to take himself out of ever winning the AEW championship. It was his idea. To then leave to go win it in WWE, it implicitly lowers the ceiling and value of AEW’s titles and thus AEW itself. He was doing the same character in both to that point. Even still is to some degree. I wouldn’t go as far to say he did what he did as a shadow agent to WWE. He did not want to go heel because he was playing the corporate man, most visible face within the company. He was the John Cena. And he proved to WWE he could do it as he was doing it in AEW. It was specifically what he was told by Vince he couldn’t do.

And at the same time, what he was doing was early to the benefit of the industry as a whole. Establishing AEW as a place to go for guys who weren’t getting to or making it or were happy in WWE to make a career. Impossible for any of the talent or backstage workers to feel like he used them. It’s been better for everybody.

He’s got 100x more instincts for the Business than anyone we’ve seen since the rise of Steve Austin.

I can't disagree with you...great civil discussions here for most part...nice to not feel everyone is tribalistic

 

[Scandale du Jour]

Cody took it upon himself to take himself out of ever winning the AEW championship. It was his idea. To then leave to go win it in WWE, it implicitly lowers the ceiling and value of AEW’s titles and thus AEW itself. He was doing the same character in both to that point. Even still is to some degree. I wouldn’t go as far to say he did what he did as a shadow agent to WWE. He did not want to go heel because he was playing the corporate man, most visible face within the company. He was the John Cena. And he proved to WWE he could do it as he was doing it in AEW. It was specifically what he was told by Vince he couldn’t do.

And at the same time, what he was doing was early to the benefit of the industry as a whole. Establishing AEW as a place to go for guys who weren’t getting to or making it or were happy in WWE to make a career. Impossible for any of the talent or backstage workers to feel like he used them. It’s been better for everybody.

He’s got 100x more instincts for the Business than anyone we’ve seen since the rise of Steve Austin.

Cody was always going to go back to WWE. He left to prove he could be the man and he did prove it.

It worked for a while in AEW, then, it got stale, but he did it and, as you said, proved to Vince he could do it.

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Cody's the f***ing man.

 

[Big Poppa Puck]

I just watched full gear.

It was way too long and I forgot most of it already. MJF-Strong could have been on dynamite. The tag match probably could have been on the pre-show.

Ospreay-Fletcher was fantastic as you'd expect. White-Hangman was good.

The main event and ending was a WCW-style overbooked mess.

 

[CDJ]

Shelton with a win! LETS GOOOOOOOO

 

[GKJ]

Still seems early to break off Kamille from Mercedes, but they already set the wheels in motion. And actual break didn’t have much juice.

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

Darby and Brody have great chemistry. I get why TK goes back to the well again and again.

 

[CDJ]

Brody protecting Darby from Claudio

GIVE US THE BRODY KING WORLD TITLE RUN WE YEARN FOR

 

[Emperoreddy]

I really thought the Mercedes/Kamille pairing would have more juice then it ended up having.

Was a dud in the end

 

[CDJ]

I really thought the Mercedes/Kamille pairing would have more juice then it ended up having.

Was a dud in the end

Made Kamille look weak way too early on

 

[hockey20000]

some odd booking decisions darby ends the ppv but then loses a match on next television show lol. love brody king though

 

[Clint Eastwood]

some odd booking decisions darby ends the ppv but then loses a match on next television show lol. love brody king though

He'll likely have a slow start and probably go on a tear for the final half of the tournament. He's selling a million injuries because he's his own worst enemy.

There's also the off chance that he goes like 1-4 in the tournament or something to really have him hit rock bottom.

I think Ospreay does something similar with his neck injury.

 

[CDJ]

some odd booking decisions darby ends the ppv but then loses a match on next television show lol. love brody king though

After he got squashed last week too

 

[Clint Eastwood]

 

[Grackle Party]

That was top notch episode of Dynamite for me.

Ive always been a Cole fan but lately he is just coming off as such a dweeb to me. Anyways its fairly telegraphed that someone in that group is turning

The Mox story is finally getting some juice. I dont really understand Page and Cage's deal but Im happy to see Switchblade and others involved.

It kinda feels like a slow burn for Darby to knock off Mox somewhere way down the line

 

[CDJ]

Oh just marina shafir taking out title contenders

What in the WCW is that? MAKE IT STOP

 

[CDJ]

I love her, she’s wrestling comedy done right

 

[Clint Eastwood]

If I clapped as much as Mistico does in his matches, I'd have so many diseases by now.

 

[ckg927]

Insofar as the Continental Classic goes: Juice Robinson had to exit the tournament due to an injury. Per TK, Komander is taking Juice's spot in the Gold League.

 

[yahhockey]

Damn. He finally returns, had minimal TV time, the CC was going to give him the time he wasn't getting the past couple months and now he's injured again. Hopefully it's short term. Komander is a loyal soldier and Rampage regular so I guess good for him to get scheduled matches against bigger names.

edit...maybe he won't be returning sooner than later...

Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful (via Fightful Select) then reported that Robinson had hoped that his injury was a bad sprain. Instead, he was said to be dealing with a broken fibula. There is currently no word on how long he will be out of action.

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Okada/Briscoe and Ricochet/Kommander C2 matches will be on Rampage. Cool way to make Rampage important on its last legs.

 

[FriendlyGhost92]

Cody took it upon himself to take himself out of ever winning the AEW championship. It was his idea. To then leave to go win it in WWE, it implicitly lowers the ceiling and value of AEW’s titles and thus AEW itself. He was doing the same character in both to that point. Even still is to some degree. I wouldn’t go as far to say he did what he did as a shadow agent to WWE. He did not want to go heel because he was playing the corporate man, most visible face within the company. He was the John Cena. And he proved to WWE he could do it as he was doing it in AEW. It was specifically what he was told by Vince he couldn’t do.

And at the same time, what he was doing was early to the benefit of the industry as a whole. Establishing AEW as a place to go for guys who weren’t getting to or making it or were happy in WWE to make a career. Impossible for any of the talent or backstage workers to feel like he used them. It’s been better for everybody.

He’s got 100x more instincts for the Business than anyone we’ve seen since the rise of Steve Austin.

You're kinda alluding to it, but I seriously doubt he was a "Shadow agent" as much as he didn't want to win the AEW title because of some misguided belief that it'd one day tarnish him eventually winning the WWE title, which was obviously his ultimate goal.

Or he just really didn't want to give off the vibe of the EVP who booked himself as champion.

Also just in AEW alone I'd argue MJF has more instinct for the business than Cody. I'd say Dom, but he sucked donkey balls as a babyface. Which is crazy because he's an incredible heel despite his Dad not being a heel in over 25 years. (And it was short-lived and bad)

Hell, I'd argue Orton over Cody, too. Randy's promos just took awhile to come along because he was a moody dick.