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2757842, RE: So I was at first excited about the Khan "announcement" on Wed....
Posted by jimaveli, Mon Feb-07-22 05:38 PM
Jonathan Gresham. It could totally be him too.

I’m gonna go with ‘hope it’s Ali, assume it’s Gresham or Cody’.

>Now I'm not so sure.
>
>When it was first announced, it sounded promising, because it
>was framed as "someone is coming through the Forbidden Door."
>I figured it was NJPW, and they might be bringing in Kohada or
>Will Osprey (who's apparently stateside and "fighting" with
>Omega on Twitter), or, failing those two, Juice Robinson.
>There's also been talk that Keith Lee is about to debut, but
>that was a free agent signing.
>
>Then Khan changed it to "free agent signing coming through the
>forbidden door and slamming it on his former employer." And
>he's supposed to fight Isiah Kassidy in qualifier for the
>Ladder Match at Revolution. That sounds a lot like a set-up
>for Jeff Hardy, which would make me considerably less excited.
>Bringing him in certainly doesn't merit the hype.
>
>It'd be interesting if it was Mustafa Ali, to challenge the
>"independent contractor" thing, but I doubt AEW wants to poke
>that bear.
>
>What I'm dreading is that it's a fake out to announce Cody
>re-signing with AEW.