10 Major Moves AEW Could Make On Its Debut TV Show

10. Course Correction For Hangman Page

Double Or Nothing mostly succeeded in its difficult aim of getting several talents over on the same show. AEW has embraced, in marketing and action, the spirit of competition.

But the problem with affording the roster such autonomy is that momentum cannot be accounted for.

Interrupting the ceremonial unveiling of the World Heavyweight Championship, MJF stole the non-wrestling portion of the show with his savage and remorseless promo. Wishing a second, disturbing attack on Bret Hart, the ridiculously charismatic heel also made literal the comparison of Hangman Page to a horse. The promo was so effective that, gauging by the Hangman's diminished aura, he made a horse's ass of him.

AEW almost "Billy Gunn'd" Page on the night. He sold his worked knee injury to perfection, but it hardly mattered: MJF was so electric that it was difficult to feel sympathy for Page. MJF's promo at Fyter Fest is closer in tone to what AEW could aim for on their TV debut, the best candidate to open which is a new face to the mainstream capable of getting himself over in minutes.

Unpatriotic, nasty, whatever: it can't be too funny, but he could mock Page's likely All Out defeat, inviting the violent, restorative comeuppance needed to babyface him.