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Alright, so I just heard that AEW booked The Firm to turn on MJF.
I heard Alvarez defending this. I’ve been masochistic and been in a mood to listen to things that are going to frustrate me to no end. I don’t know why I do it to myself lol. Alvarez was crowing about how no harm can come from a babyface MJF turn. That’s just flat-out wrong. This is probably sabotage. But that’s what you get for signing with this company, I guess.
But let’s say you wanted to turn MJF face. You can’t do a promo where he goes after Moxley and says “A few years ago I tried to take that World Title from you and I failed. I was a prodigy and I talked the talk, but I found out the hard way that every stupid rumor about you is true. I hate it, but you’re every bit as good as they say. You dress like crap but you’ve earned millions being at the top of the game for so long. But I’m not going to be knocked back again. I am going to be the change that AEW needs and this time I am forcing you to get up to my level.” They’ve got to have his group turn on him and beat the piss out of him to try and make people feel sympathy for him. It makes no sense. Why do you feel sorry for that asshole? He didn’t do anything active.
This is classic WWE booking, actually. It’s Vince’s fetish for humiliating people. This is not how you get a babyface over.
Now, there are people who say this is a SWERVE! The Firm are going to be with MJF all along. You know, the old Vince Russo trick. The heels beat up their own guy but secretly they all love each other and wrestling’s fake bro. Alvarez defended this because AEW is doing it. He says MJF is “the devil,” so it makes sense for him to go to such measures. What? Why? Why not NOT have your guys beat you up? If Moxley actually falls for that, then he’s a stupid babyface.
This is stupid either way you cut it. The best case scenario is that The Firm legit turned on MJF to go off on their own and he is still a heel. It’s messy, but it doesn’t fuck with anyone and could help The Firm.
But that is such a Jericho idea if I ever heard one. It reeks of the same gaps in logic and disregard for the faces as his current ROH World Champion thing. I bet Jericho still hasn’t let the NY Times article and Punk and MJF’s jabs at him go.
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