Why AEW Has Just Helped Triple H In A Big Way
To say every promo segment in All Elite Wrestling hits would be unfair and untrue, but to suggest that the company isn't more about stories and talkers than matches would be equally egregious.
"Elite" remains titular for a reason, and Kenny Omega daring a locker room of "b*tches" to "follow that" following a ripper trios match at All Out was a reminder that the standard should still be kept very high. But AEW is filled to the brim with soap-adjacent drama. It’s just happened to mostly be the best kind.
For the duration of the company’s existence, cornerstone Jon Moxley has swept into town once a week to survey the and do the best he can to leave it a better place than the one he found. Omega, The Young Bucks and Hangman Page used AEW’s origin story to plant seeds on YouTube that constantly sprouted hold on television and pay-per-view. Chris Jericho has taken the type of inspiration that drove the Festival Of Friendship and peppered it across about a hundred different ideas. They’ve not all worked but - in keeping with his career overall - his ratio is still pretty great. MJF and CM Punk told arguably the company’s best ever story by twisting it on what felt like a weekly basis. That they did so in ways completely unpredictable until plain-sight tropes revealed themselves was a credit to performers and promotion alike.
Everything on the show felt like it was. Until, many agree, right now. And for AEW, the timing of that couldn’t be worse.
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