Welcome back to another Monday Morning Q&A where I toss out some questions to get a feel of how you guys and gals are feeling about certain topics.
So here are 5 questions I’d like to toss out for this week. I’ll give my answers, too, but the key here is that I want to know what YOU think! So make sure you chime in!
1) Which faction will implode first, The Elite or The Andrade-Hardy Family Office? When do you think that will happen?
The Elite’s headed toward disaster, but that will drag out a little longer. I’m assuming The A-HFO is done this week on Dynamite. After taking the loss for his team, Matt Hardy is going to be kicked out with a “hostile takeover” where it’s just Andrade in charge. Then, that will bring about Jeff Hardy reuniting with his brother and The Hardy Boyz as a thing either by the end of this week or next week.
2) Who should be next in line to challenge Hangman Adam Page for the AEW World Championship?
In the grand scheme of things, I want MJF to be the guy who beats Page, so we have to sit on that for a little while longer. Frankly, I’m hoping someone comes out of left field. While looking at the roster, my gut tells me nothing, but my brain tells me I’d go with Miro. He’s a big enough name that he seems like a credible threat, but isn’t so big that if that feud takes place solely on television, it won’t feel like it was being wasted. We can hold off on the Kenny Omega rematch until Double or Nothing or have someone else set up in the meantime for that, while Miro fills the Lance Archer role of a stepping stone.
3) Will Wardlow win the TNT Championship? If so, do you think MJF will find a way to snatch it from him?
After Wardlow purposely screwed MJF out of the dog collar match, I’m fully anticipating the story with those two to go straight into a legitimate feud. The best way to do that is to involve the title.
However, that doesn’t mean Wardlow necessarily wins it. Just as much as it makes sense for him to capture the belt and have MJF bring out the contract and order him to give the title to him, I could see MJF merely costing Wardlow the match outright and stopping him from winning it at all.
In one way or another, those two are having a match at Double or Nothing, if I were to have anything to say about it.
4) Who are you more excited about with AEW’s latest acquisitions of Swerve Strickland and William Regal?
While Swerve is going to put on some great matches and will even potentially be the head of a good faction, as evidenced by what he was starting to do with Hit Row, I’m more excited for Regal, I’ll admit. Not only is Regal an awesome mouthpiece for anyone he can be the manager to, he’s also a fantastic mind the company can benefit from. I’d imagine just like he was for WWE, he’ll be worth his weight in gold and valuable in multiple ways, including scouting talent.
5) Stepping outside of AEW and switching to WWE for a question, the Madison Square Garden show was hyped up that something big would happen. In the end, it was much ado about nothing. Do you think this is WWE screwing with the dirt sheets with purposeful misdirect to discredit them, was it WWE feeding this hype to boost ticket sales, sources just flat out being wrong, or do you think WWE considers what happened to be big enough to justify saying it was a big deal?
All scenarios are bad and scary in their own rights. None of them point in the right direction of the company knowing what they’re doing and putting on a great show. I’m inclined to believe more of the last bit, where WWE just happens to think “Roman Reigns attacked Brock Lesnar and we can’t wait to show you because oh my god, this feud is so personal” is what they think is a big enough story, while being tone deaf that nobody else gives a shit.
If it was a case of messing with the reporters, that’s a tactic WWE shouldn’t be doing. While the company could think “it’s going to make those reporters look bad and discredit them, and we just reap the benefits of more buzz”, that’s neglecting how ultimately, it’s still WWE who gets the flack of putting on an underwhelming show. Fans can be temporarily upset that WrestleVotes got this scoop wrong, but they’ll still follow that Twitter account. Getting excited about WWE, only to feel like you wasted your money, though? That’s where you get the “I knew WWE wasn’t going to deliver. Screw watching Raw.” mentality.
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