10 Fascinating Facts About Famous Wrestling Promos

10. A Former WWE Creative Writer Got A Joke On AEW Dynamite

Brian Gewirtz was responsible, in part, for some of your favourite wrestling memories.

The Rock's key collaborator began writing for the promotion in 1999, and where Vince Russo provided the wider swerve-driven framework, and Chris Kreski elevated it with intricate overlapping storylines in 2000, Gewirtz provided the comedy. If you've ever wondered why Edge's character is as cold as a Lance Storm obituary these days, it's because Gewirtz crafted some of his best zingers.

AEW doesn't do writers. It is booked like an old-fashioned territory, and its various great talkers express the key narrative beats in their own voice...

...with apparently two exceptions.

Chris Jericho called Gewirtz up in November 2019 when he needed a great joke to put his first verbal segment with MJF all the way over. In a line that feels so much like something the Rock would say with this knowledge, he said MJF was so similar to him that "It's like your parents got horny when they were watching me beat up Juventud Guerrero 20 years ago on WCW Saturday night, and nine months later your little twerp ass popped out."

The Juventud reference was a clue in plain sight.

So yes: technically, a WWE scripted promo just about happened on AEW Dynamite. According to Gewirtz, speaking on the Ringer's Masked Men show, there's another joke of his somewhere on the FITE archives.