AEW - All Elite Wrestling (*Spoilers for Latest Show*)

Having Wardlow in that title match so soon after Scorpio won the title wasn't a good idea. Like it was pretty obvious Scorpio wasn't losing the title and now his undefeated streak has ended due to the DQ.

As others have said, glad Rosa won. I liked Britt but they've gone and done the WWE thing of overexposing her. I was expecting shenanigans.. Surprised none of Britt's crew appeared. And when Aubrey came out, I expected the double ref count.

Jericho talking about using real names and not doing the same. Coincidence this happens right after Jeff Hardy joins? I think they need to change the Judas music as well now to something with no lyrics at least. Not a very heel move letting the people have what they want. They could say it's the fans appreciating Jericho, but considering they're also booing him it doesn't make sense.

Yuta joining Team Regal makes sense after how he's being treated with Best Friends lately. Also with regard Best Friends is Statlander teasing a character change with the bit with her removing contacts and makeup?

Seeing him on Dark this week, how come Jora Johl rarely comes out with AFO?

Speaking of Aubrey and Dark, I see they have a new female ref. Was curious if she learned from Aubrey and noticed her throwing her arms up anytime there was an impactful move like a slam or something.

If you treat the main event as a comedy match it was great. A hilarious shambles.

“Certain things happen for a reason and subconsciously that was one of the smartest, maybe the smartest thing I have ever done guided by something higher than me,” Jeff Hardy said. “WWE was so strange, I had been there for almost two years I guess after I came back from knee surgery. When Matt debuted in AEW, the pandemic hit in front of nobody, he teleported down in the nosebleeds and I was going to debut in Detroit Michigan, I came back from knee surgery in front of the performance center to nobody.

“It was just weird, the best way I can describe my last few months in WWE was just glimmers of hope like maybe I still do have something and the last glimmer of hope was the Survivor Series which was really good. Came down to me and Seth Rollins and I almost won and the crowd was so behind me, I felt like one of the most popular babyfaces in WWE.

“Then there’s other times where I just felt like a ghost roaming the halls, I don’t know, why am I even here? I don’t feel important at all. I kept doing my deal, showing up and doing whatever they wanted me to do and I’ve never been a politician so I don’t go out of my way to get a certain spot or to achieve a certain status.

“But yeah that night in Texas, I finished my heat, took the heat, and just said I’m ready to go. Went over the railing, disappeared into the crowd and naturally, they think I took something like drugs or whatever but I didn’t. I mean if I was that bad I should’ve never went out there is the way I see it.

“But yeah, it’s just another unpredictable thing that I can do and I’d get away with it but it was more serious than that. It was one of the smartest things I had ever done because it worked out so perfectly, mainly because my first day in AEW I felt valuable for the first time. The care and love I was shown, I felt like I was supposed to be there, I just got chills thinking about that.

“With WWE it just felt like they were keeping me there to sell action figures and that’s one of the things, I get so much joy out of painting my face and when I see that come out and immortalized in an action figure I’m like man, that’s why I do this. This is so cool and that’s one thing I’m super excited about here in AEW is my first action figure with the face paint. This is exactly where I’m supposed to be right now.”

Jeff Hardy made his AEW debut last week, helping his brother fend off the HFO on AEW Dynamite, and then teamed with his brother this week against Private Party.

Continuing to talk about the details surrounding that night in Texas, Jeff Hardy mentioned what led up to him walking out of that match. The former WWE Tag Team Champion talked about the highs and lows of his most recent run with WWE and why he felt like he had no purpose.

“It felt right in the moment, I wasn’t trying to get released,” Jeff said. “Just thinking about Survivor Series and how fun that was, that connection with the crowd and how they wanted me to win so bad. It just made me think back to SummerSlam, I went to SummerSlam and it was a big crowd in this stadium in Vegas and I was there all day for nothing. I was like why am I even here?

“I was so excited about being a part of it, some little spot or something but I just wasn’t involved. I was like why am I even here? And that’s not just at SummerSlam but like why am I still here in WWE? What’s my purpose because it felt like I didn’t have much of one.”

Immediately after he was released from WWE, talks of AEW and a reunion with his brother Matt grew rapidly. Jeff Hardy revealed conversations he had with people in AEW throughout his final run with WWE and why his plan was always to come to AEW once his brother left WWE to become All Elite.

“When anybody from AEW said ‘hey man, how much longer do you got over there?’ ‘ah, a little under two years now…’ but that was ultimately the plan [to go to AEW] depending on how things went throughout those two years,” Hardy said. “I’m in good shape but I’m still pretty beat up so I don’t know how much longer I’ve got so I just want to make the most of how much longer I do have.

“I’m sure Matt feels the same way, let’s get this in while we can. I just felt like I was wasting away in WWE, for my good moments that hadn’t happened yet, while I’m healthy and still feel pretty good out there in the ring. I just feel valued now and I think that’s very important as a performer.”

Have a read of this WWE contract (Kanyon’s). It’s been challenged in court and held up. Wrestling has a vey unique take on what an independent contractor is.

http://muchnick.net/kanyoncontract.pdf

while it might seem great to “stick it to the wwe” because of their scummy behaviour, the reality is it shows that Jeff can’t be trusted to stick to an agreement and makes pushing him even more of a risk. He just keeps proving that he can’t be relied upon to be put in an important role.

Some on line chatter speculation of Bret Hart and Trish Stratus joining AEW in some capacity

he is gonna manage FTR - they have been hinting at it and even the bucks dropped a "best there is" line talking about Tully's replacement