12 Ups & 1 Down From AEW Dynamite (November 8 - Results & Review)
4. Wardlow's World
AEW
If there's one thing worse than having a wronged monster on your case, it's having a wronged monster on your case that has told you everything you need to know about him being on your case other than when he's going to make you suffer the consequences of it.
This has become a brilliant subversion of the original Wardlow/MJF power dynamic in 'The War Dog's mind, but he's crucially missing the biggest point. He's holding the when-not-if over MJF's head, but 'The Salt Of The Earth' is still renting space in his. To a psychopathic degree.
AEW have created tremendous suspense around the eventual assault, not least with MJF already shouldering so many problems. But as a character study, it's the most interesting story the company have attempted to tell with the former TNT Champion since his topknot was Samoa Joe's cruel trophy.
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