AEW Dynamite January 3rd, 2024: International Championship on the line!

[Chris]

The segment with him and MJF with the mask in the background was Wembley, the devil didn't appear himself until after the Cole injury but I buy it was always gonna be cole before the injury

 

[JakeYourBooty]

HoHo coming with the wack takes tonight

 

[Smart Marx]

so i keep seeing conflicting things about this. I have seen people say the devil story started after he got hurt. but i cant be asked to fact check lol

I still agree with you though, and even if it started after the injury it was clearly cooking for a while.

He also didn't budge when ppl were getting impatient and just told the story they wanted to tell. and imo got a satisfying reveal for being patient

I mean, you know what it might be possible that the actual masked devil didn’t show up until after he got hurt. I’m trying to remember. I will say, though, I think the way to figure out if the general storyline was happening before he got hurt is when did Roddy and the Kingdom start to team up? If that was before Cole got hurt then I think there was always some kind of plan to do this UK betrayal of MJF.

I’ll be honest as well as far as me being impatient, because I honestly thought the reveal would’ve made more sense when MJF was facing switchblade, considering that’s where the storyline started but that being said now that switchblade has been rotated back into the angle. Yeah, probably worked out exactly how he wanted it to.

 

[Smart Marx]

I think the only other thing I kind of have a question about is what is the devil storyline taking place when Joe MJF had the first match at grand slam? Because why would they have just help Joe win there?

 

[Comrade Khan]

The segment with him and MJF with the mask in the background was Wembley, the devil didn't appear himself until after the Cole injury but I buy it was always gonna be cole before the injury

the mask in the locker was the point of time i couldn't remember, so thanks.

Yeah to me it seems they just adapted with the crutches instead. maybe they spread it one ppv cycle but im not convinced of even that. they needed the time to wear MJF down in kayfabe (bummer a bit he was physically worn down irl too ).

all that aside, I do think this long term arc if it continues to deliver, could be on par with the hangman arc which is imo the gold standard AEW story up to this point still

 

[Apoho Creed]

Jay White and Bullet Club Gold Face Turn Daddy like if it stays that way. Why do people want to go into a fight with their Shirt off it's the most unserious thing to do

 

[Smart Marx]

The segment with him and MJF with the mask in the background was Wembley, the devil didn't appear himself until after the Cole injury but I buy it was always gonna be cole before the injury

Good eye. So I think if the mask was in the background before the injury that the plan was definitely there from the start I think.

 

[Chris]

I think the only other thing I kind of have a question about is what is the devil storyline taking place when Joe MJF had the first match at grand slam? Because why would they have just help Joe win there?

Cole wasn't injured yet, the goal at that point was still winning the title for him, after he has the main goal of fucking over Max instead

 

[Smart Marx]

The one hill I will definitely die on is that once the masked devil showed up and attack switchblade, it was never going to be anyone other than Adam Cole.

There’s actually some cool cuts of every time the devil showed up and every time Adam and MJF had a segment and every single development in the storyline pointed to Adam Cole. It was probably the most predictable storyline in Wrestling history, but I always tell people predictability doesn’t mean it’s bad. You don’t need a twist just to have a twist.

 

[Smart Marx]

Cole wasn't injured yet, the goal at that point was still winning the title for him, after he has the main goal of fucking over Max instead

That makes sense. That all comes together for me now.

Because that would be the logical conclusion.

 

[Comrade Khan]

I think the only other thing I kind of have a question about is what is the devil storyline taking place when Joe MJF had the first match at grand slam? Because why would they have just help Joe win there?

kayfabe wise, I believe Joe and the devils didn't talk until after grand slam. remember that Cole was still helping MJF then.

in non kayfabe reasons: it gave Joe the kayfabe reasons he has now to have aligned with them (he cut a post victory promo explaining why he did what he did, and the main catalyst was that mjf "used every trick in the book including interference to steal what was rightfully his" (also that he's a cold hearted son of a bitch). So Joe would not have accepted help the first time around, as it was not personal YET.

 

[Jimmy King]

NGL it pumped me the fuck up

I suppose I should just let it play out but I’m also not that high on Hangman these days so that may be why I’m not into that much. Again, I’ll let it all play out and see how I feel.

 

[JakeYourBooty]

Smark just hates that Joe won the title

That’s what I got from all this

 

[Chris]

https://twitter.com/wrestlenomics/status/1743022983763898661 801k and a .26

 

[Comrade Khan]

and yeah , the switchblade stuff also hurt my mark heart but now that he's opposing Undisputed Kingdom and part of the main angle immediately after a good showing in the c2, it's all forgiven