Welcome back to Weekly Spotlight, my weekly segment where I will be looking at the best segment in wrestling this week across all promotions. If you feel there’s a segment that warrants my attention contact me on twitter @cs_rose1 and I’ll let you know what I think of it.
This week on the Weekly Spotlight my segment on the week comes from Wednesday night’s AEW Dynamite and is the final altercation between MJF and Jon Moxley before their AEW World Title match at All Out this Saturday. This segment beat the interview with Kenny Omega and the NXT Fatal Four-way Iron Man match and I will explain why this was so far down in my list later on.
This segment including the hilarity of Moxley’s match with MJF’s lawyer Mark Sterling, which was brilliant the fact he had to have Mox teach him how to make a fist going from that to the attack by Wardlow and the emergence of “a surprisingly unaffected” MJF and the brutality that he unleashed on Mox was a great end to a great go-home episode of Dynamite leading into their biggest PPV of the year.
The way the story has been built up by AEW is fantastic and is proof to me that MJF will be at the top of this business for the next 25 years as he has predicted himself on many occasions. And I personally think now is the time to pull the pin on the grenade that is MJF, I have compared the two before but he does resemble a young Randy Orton to me both in demeanour and his ability on the mic and in the ring. The good thing with this is it can be viewed as a trial period for him to see if he is capable of being that leading guy in the locker room and becoming a big-time draw. I would keep him in the feud with Moxley and let this run through a couple of PPVs giving him a legitimate top-tier guy to work with the match quality would be stellar and if the company do not feel like MJF is quite ready after that, Moxley would be more than a believable two-time champ at the moment AEW are in a win/win position with this weekends main event and I for one cannot wait to see what route they go down.
Honourable Mentions
Interview w/ Kenny Omega
This segment takes its position on my honourable mentions because of how much storytelling was involved both in the lead up and during this segment. As a big advocate of good storytelling within Pro Wrestling this was a major plus point for this segment in the lead up to the AEW Tag Team title defence of Hangman Adam Page/Kenny Omega vs FTR.
The friendship between FTR and Hangman has become a problem with them getting in his head so much so that he cost his friends The Young Bucks their shot at a number 1 contender spot last week, forcing them to kick him out of The Elite. This leads us to Kenny’s interview speaking about the issues that occurred the previous week FTR joined Kenny in the ring soon to be joined by Hangman, and it wasn’t long before the mind games from FTR started and began to effect Page again. There didn’t seem to be any dissension in the ranks as Kenny tried to calm his partner down however as Hangman retrieved the belts from FTR and went hand the other belt to his tag team partner, he had already abandoned him and was standing, shaking his head outside of the ring and if you ask me this is just the beginning of their problems heading into All Out and I can’t wait for the eventual Hangman vs Omega match ups we will be getting in the hopefully near future.
Fatal Four Way – 60 Minute Iron Man Match
Now, this match on paper is the stuff for sit and dream up in their heads or make happen on WWE 2K20 to try and see who would actually win this mammoth match up. This week on NXT we got to finally get the answer to that question and the answer was…. We still don’t know, and that is the reason that this match is number 3 overall in the Weekly Spotlight because in my personal opinion the finish to this was shocking in the way of storytelling and wasted time on the show that could have allowed other stars to utilise better.
Don’t get me wrong the match was fantastic there was everything you could ask for accepting a winner, with Balor leading the scores 2-1-1-1 with 12 seconds to go it seemed as if that was it until Cole hit him with the knee to the back of the head and as the timer counted down secured a pinfall making it a tie, Regal promptly made his way to the ring and said to the competitors it will be a 1 vs 1 match next week and winner takes all, but indulge me. Surely if Adam Cole hit the knee but just as the ref’s hand comes down for the 3 counts the buzzer goes and the match is overbuilt better storyline-wise for Cole to be a champion Finn’s first challenger, this outcome could have been down with the same quality of match in 30 mins and given two 15minute segments to other superstars to use, it was a waste of a great match something I was surprised at from NXT in all honesty but there you have it.
What did you think of these moments in the world of wrestling this week?
That is your Weekly Spotlight remember if you feel there’s a moment in wrestling I’ve missed this week get in touch on twitter @cs_rose1 and I’ll have a look and probably tell you you’re wrong.
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