This is when I said he's fantastic in the ring
It started off as a shoot, it is now clearly work territory as they wouldn't have given him the mic time if they weren't on good terms.
I like him too, and he's got my eternal respect for tweeting that Ospreay was dumb lol
Hearing it live in the arena is something I feel will stick with me. I feel like it was a promo that will live on forever.
100% I was in team work from the get go.
I can only imagine how that would have been. You could hear the crowd were shocked by it as you would never expect him to just shout it on the mic.
Hearing it live in the arena is something I feel will stick with me. I feel like it was a promo that will live on forever.
Here's the shirt and hat I got from the event
Still feel like MJF has been working TK, SRS, and other journos this entire time. Only person that truly knows is MJF.
Fair way to look at it. Even if he's fully in character during this supposed "just here to do my job" period, if no one else knows then it's only a work for himself.
It's weird TK went so far as to cancel (or MJF refused and no showed) the fan fest, causing people to waste money and not receive refunds.
I really don't think this is a smoking gun for "this is totally real", several other wrestlers had issues showing up to the meet and greet. Joe missed it completely, the Hardy's almost missed it as well.
Yeah, MJF could have missed it for the same reason as Joe and they just decided to go with it as part of his persona. We may never know!!!!!
Bingo, Shubb. There's a pretty broad difference between Cornette, who despises AEW and wants nothing more than it to fail, and MJF, who is an AEW performer capitalizing on(and celebrating, too) the investment of fans in AEW and wrestling overall. The fan reaction is an embrace, an encouragement of that -- not of any perceived hatred toward AEW, even if they might agree with some of what MJF said.
nice!! those look like great seats. hope you had an awesome time, dean.Here are some of my terrible pictures from my phone:
Edit: wow, those got compressed to fucking shit, lol
He can come out and laugh at the fans for thinking they were finally rid of him if he "leaves" and comes back. We'll never be rid of him! There are so, so, so many fun possibilities here.
I wish there had been some shots like this on the show itself, besides the stage being different it just felt like any other arena to me, and there was supposedly 15,000 there? Don't think AEW took full advantage of this place.
Such a great Arena.
I'll say a good sign was commentary not bringing it up at all after the segment when they came back from commercial. They just moved right on like it didn't happen, like you would if it actually happened. I think it shows that at least the commentary team is clued in on what's going on, as opposed to those WCW years where poor Schiavone would literally have no idea what the fuck was actually happening in front of him because Russo/Bischoff were obsessed with working everyone more than making actual wrestling entertainment. IMO they are approaching it in a far more sensible way than WCW ever did during that dire "everything is a shoot" 2000 era.
This too. Most of the AEW audience is smart enough/clued in enough to navigate this stuff. They are also very forgiving and actively want to along with the ride.
