6 Ups & 4 Downs For AEW Collision (Oct 7 - Results & Review)

3. Another Fake Champion

Last Wednesday's Dynamite saw Jay White take possession of the AEW World Championship which belongs to MJF. That's a heel doing heel things, making you want to root for the hero to get their prize back. Okay, fine.

Now though, Collision had Switchblade play up how he's the real World Champion and that his match against Adam Page on Title Tuesday in a matter of days will actually be a Title Eliminator contest for Hangman.

Ordinarily, this would feel a little bit naff, but making this even worse is that AEW has just literally run a couple of months of programming where someone else was falsely claiming to be a champion and acting as if he'd partaken in title defences. Of course, that was Christian Cage and the TNT Title, which at that time actually belonged to Luchasaurus.

Tony Khan seems to have a strange habit of undermining his own product by repeating things. For instance, how often do we see open challenges used to set up matches rather than, y'know, getting to those matches by storytelling? Or how about when when we get #1 contenders matches on simultaneous weeks? Or what about running a tag team blind eliminator tournament at the same time that you're running your men and women's Owen Hart tournaments?

For Tony to pivot to another 'fake champion' story just two weeks after Christian Cage's similar antics came to an end, that just feels so lazy and uninspired.