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Originally Posted by Mr. Nerfect
But, um, do you know who is currently in a blood feud with Chris Jericho? He’s a 5’10, 161lbs indy darling, whose whole gimmick is that wrestling is bullshit and you shouldn’t try at the start. When he started getting shit in on Jericho, people actually tuned out of Jericho segments. A closing segment where he Superman Punched Jericho, and Jericho bumped himself (I say that, because it didn’t look like a reasonable transfer of kinetic energy at all) through a table got beat by NXT by an alleged 300k viewers. It did 165% of AEW’s audience.
They absolutely do the shit you say is poison. And it is poison. You just haven’t come across it yet, haha.
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Jericho is in his post-title run, pre-Tyson? stage. I’m not an Orange Cassidy fan but it just seems like something to keep him busy. If he jobs, that’s a whole other problem. I don’t look at the feud as the rise of Orange Cassidy as a legit main eventer though. Darby Allin challenged for the world title, too. It was a TV main event. It was fine. The guys they’ve seemed to push as serious contenders have been Cody, Moxley, Brodie, Hager, Archer and Cage. They lean toward old school heavyweights/personalities more than WWE does nowadays. The work rate indy darlings aren’t pushed as the headliners.