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>First of all, I generally HATE worked shoots.

WWE was ignoring
>its audience. That's one thing that AEW has never been accused
>of,

I generally hate worked shoots as well, but I think they’re pulling it off well, and they’re not taking the angle that AEW/Tony are out of touch, just that they disrespect a homegrown talent.

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>To echo Meltzer, AEW is playing with fire .

I know what you mean, it runs the risk of getting very WCW, but again, I trust the hands it’s in.

Conditioning them to reject these new
>signees seems counterintuitive and really is booking for the
>social media reactions, as much as I hate to say it.

I doubt that will happen. I think that line sells MJF’s gripe, but I’d be surprised if fans take that and run with it as an anti-new signees thing.

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>Not to mention that the promo pretty much erased what Wardlow
>did the night before. He destroyed MJF, sending him off in a
>stretcher and neck-brace, and now he's back the next night,
>vaguely mentioning being "hurt," but mostly acting like
>nothing happened.

3 days later, but yeah, I don’t disagree with any of this. The content of the promo wouldn’t have been hurt by some classic MJF excuses up top.