6 Ups & 5 Downs From AEW Dynamite (29 Dec)
3. Judas In His Mind
The show-not-tell organisation went against its core principle a big way in the big post-match angle.
Chris Jericho's return felt partially botched. Generating a big pop from Daily's Place at least, the Inner Circle leader came out swinging, but didn't bother doing so during the long and protracted build to Santana taking a shot to the head with the ring bell. Was he aping old pal Vampiro and waiting for "his f*cking music" or something?
Fortunately, Eddie Kingston had no time for the obvious posturing, but the announce team questioned what his problem was with the returning hero.
That was obvious to the viewer, forced narrative be damned. 'The Mad King' was beloved enough to make half the crowd boo CM Punk last month. The company's internal value system must be held to account if they consider bloated egomaniacal gazillionaire Jericho the hero of this specific story. Not least when he feels like a winnet latching onto Kingston's momentum as it is.