We can all laugh but I saw several AEW folks on Twitter being all "that one is for the boys" so it looks like this was a make good to the locker room for the whole Punk fiasco.
IMO they should have had Jericho go through a bunch of other former ROH champs and have Bryan as the final boss in the old Obi-Wan wizard robe with Final Countdown playing while the fans slammed the metal on the barricades.
Dynamite will probably be fun, but the more important news is I got a job offer today for a higher paying position than the one I got laid off from last month.
He's not a Rock or Austin, but he's been around long enough at or near the top that if anyone at WB had a casual knowledge of wrestling they'd recognize him.
IIRC him and JR were what convinced the suits that it wasn't just a group full of people who have never done this before.
It's okay to not like Jericho,but considering signing him was a big part in getting a TV deal at the start (and may be a part of getting the next one), saying he's the most negative influence is frankly ridiculous hyperbole.
not sure why the NXT tag champs are out here starting shit with the NXT and NA champs, but Truth's shirt reminded me that the 24/7 title is apparently still a thing.
On one hand it seems like he really hasn't been progressing much and has been spinning his wheels for a while, but they *just* started that angle with Duke (and boy does that poor guy seem to have terrible luck) so this is a head scratcher.
If we're being honest I think we all kind of knew this is how Punk and AEW would end, the only surprising part is how he speedran it in the course of about a year.
Punk became the grumpy old man saying things were better in his day that his younger self would have told to fuck off.
On a macro level he's not wrong, there's certainly things you can take from "simpler" approaches. Problem is young folks aren't going to want to hear that noise and ESPECIALLY not from a guy like Punk. I don't blame him for trying but he should have been adult enough to realize not everyone is going to treat it like manna from heaven. It seems like Page from how he says it tried every way he could to let Punk down easy that he wasn't interested in his advice.