10 Worst Ideas That Actual WRESTLERS Came Up With
5. Jim Cornette Books FTR Vs. The Young Bucks
The FTR vs. Young Bucks programme was better before the dream match came into focus.
FTR manipulating Hangman Page, by first pretending to be friendly with the Elite out of respect for elevating the tag team form, was a strong idea. It put over both the Kenny Omega and Hangman Page team and the value of the AEW World Tag Team titles they held. FTR had to orchestrate a masterplan in order to unsettle the dominant champions. FTR had to cut the team in half before they could even think of cutting the ring in half.
Then, with the gold secured at All Out 2020, the FTR Vs. Bucks rivalry deepened, and the results were not great, even if they delivered a classic at Full Gear. The Bucks started behaving like their old, transgressive selves by beating up members of the broadcast team backstage. If the idea was to make it feel like the 2016 Bucks were feuding with the 2016 Revival, as many fans had idly dreamed about at the time, it didn't work; the Bucks came off as petulant whiners. It all worked out, but the feud itself underwhelmed.
Khan's idea was still better than Jim Cornette's.
Cornette thought FTR should have stiffed and sandbagged the Bucks in a nine minute match - "not going along with their sh*t" - leaving the fans to question whether what they had just witnessed was legitimate. He justified this worked shoot by saying the AEW base would get what he was going for with a "double cross".
The AEW base wanted a Bucks Vs. FTR dream match. They wanted it for four years. That's what they got after being made to wait for it.
What's with Cornette's booking when he isn't actually getting paid to do it?
He makes Vince Russo look like Bill Watts.