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Originally Posted by Buff
Moxley joined the Inner Circle. Oh, wait. He was just kidding.
I kept watching to see him double cross Jericho. I knew it was coming. Everybody knew it was coming. It was a bit awkwardly drawn out so you knew they were trying to swerve us.
For a moment I thought. Yeah, Moxley wants to dominate and he can dominate as part of a super group in the Inner Circle and that makes sense to be dominant but... this just doesn't seem like a Moxley thing to do though. This character doesn't seem like the 2nd fiddle to anybody, especially Jericho.
I only caught that segment and DDP's segment. Both were predictable.
AEW is freshly different from WWE, but it is still missing something.
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I thought it was a pretty mediocre episode overall. It's still not a very tight show with segments going over, bad camera cuts, etc. They also didn't come back from commercial quick enough when MJF cut his promo, which included him counting down from 10, so head to awkwardly do it again. And I agree with you on the Moxley/IC stuff. It was really well-planned but poorly executed with the amount of time they spent just hanging around in the ring.
It was interesting to me that DDP was on the show last night because the Moxley stuff sort of reminded me of when the nWo tried to recruit DDP. WCW did a lot of things wrong but they absolutely nailed that segment and it got DDP massively over with the fans. Mox is a bit different because he's already over but this could have been done much better.
I can't stand Kevin Dunn but I think AEW needs to consider hiring a Kevin Dunn-type of producer to manage the show a bit better. The talent is there, the storylines and character development are pretty good, and the mic work is probably the best in professional wrestling right now, but the show is still really raw and needs some fine-tuning. With that being said, the show has only been on the air for 3 months, so I think you have to grade it on a bit of a curve.