AEW TV Megathread

[sek69]

Mistico is ALL ELITE! and also a new trios champ

[sek69]

I thought the Dogs vs Darby/Orange/Roddy was going to die a death after everything this crowd has seen, but it still ended up really good.  So far every match has delivered except the women's tag titles but that was by design since it was basically angle advancement.

[sek69]

MJF coming out with the Terry Funk gear is fucking great. 

[Blehschmidt]

This new Gollum gimmick that Lio Rush is doing might be one of the dumbest things I've seen in a long time.

[sek69]

PWO's favorite wrestler is back, baby! Jericho returned on Dynamite tonight. I have absolutely no source for this but I would not be surprised if he had been watching the build to Mania this year and was like "nah I'm good, I'll head back to AEW". 

[The Thread Killer]

6 minutes ago, sek69 said:

PWO's favorite wrestler is back, baby! Jericho returned on Dynamite tonight. I have absolutely no source for this but I would not be surprised if he had been watching the build to Mania this year and was like "nah I'm good, I'll head back to AEW". 

Meltzer was saying it was pretty much the opposite. He apparently had talks with WWE, and they told him they were good. And honestly…why wouldn’t they? Whatever problems WWE has, the answer is definitely not a 55 year old Chris Jericho.

[sek69]

They don't need him, but I would have assumed they'd want to have him just to "hurt" AEW since one of the reasons they initially got a deal with WBD is that Jericho was a name their execs recognized along with Jim Ross. 

[DMJ]

^ Agreed. I don't buy that WWE wasn't interested. I think they were...but whether it was money or dates or creative, it didn't work out. My assumption is that it was the first two. To pile on to what sek69 said, if the WWE had their way, they'd have every major "name" in wrestling under contract, past, present, and future. Moxley, MJF, Ospreay, Swerve, Kenny, Toni, Mercedes, Darby...it doesn't matter if they're in the middle of a massive cost-cutting, if they can make a buck off you, they want you.

We may all be tired of Chris Jericho, but the guy still sells merch and would get that big nostalgia pop in WWE (and even got one last night). When the nostalgia pop fades (and it will fade quickly in AEW), he'll turn it into part of his "gimmick" to get heat and they'll use it to try to get someone else over (a pattern they've now done so many times that its become a trope that has go-away heat of its own). The Jericho Return in WWE would've been profitable. 

Also, if the WBD execs care about Jericho as a name, so do the Saudi princes. 

[BigBadMick]

Any chance they use him solely as a manager/commentator this time? Really can’t see anything enticing from him in-ring.