{"id":50146,"date":"2024-08-25T09:52:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T14:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=50146"},"modified":"2024-08-30T09:52:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T14:52:47","slug":"i-am-not-a-fan-of-mjfs-short-reign-as-american-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=50146","title":{"rendered":"I am not a fan of MJF\u2019s short reign as American Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This post could\u2019ve just as easily been called WTF is AEW doing #413, but we\u2019ve gone too far now, and the wheels of writing are already in motion.\u00a0 But after maybe what, four or five weeks after MJF defeated Will Ospreay for the re-christened American Championship in an absolute banger of a match on Dynamite #250, he gives it right back to Ospreay at All In<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s funny because the WWE gets a tremendous amount of flack when they do 50\/50 booking, when feuding competitors trade wins back and forth, because \u201cit devalues\u201d both of them having to take losses, but this is a prime example of a zero-sum gain of 50\/50 booking between two guys that are expected to be torch bearers for AEW, in MJF and Will Ospreay.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ospreay takes a loss at Dynamite #250, loses his blet to MJF, and MJF does some really, really outstanding work in the span of him turning it into the American Championship, cashing in on all sorts of cheap heat by taking the title to Mexico and Europe and going ballistic on foreign countries, drawing nuclear amounts of heat in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n

But instead of continuing to run with this ball that had a tremendous amount of mileage still left in the tank, AEW books MJF to drop the title right back to Will Ospreay, so that MJF can go feud with Daniel Garcia, whom I like, but at the same time, now there\u2019s nobody next in line for Will Ospreay, although I think it\u2019s evidently clear that it\u2019s going to be Ricochet, because Tony Khan doesn\u2019t waste any time at caving to what he and the fans want, which is an inevitable Ospreay vs. Ricochet match.<\/span><\/p>\n

And just like that, a mega-program between two of the company\u2019s most mega stars is over as quick as it started, all because a notable program needed to be lit and burned for All In just because it was in London and Will Ospreay of course needs to go over in his home country.<\/span><\/p>\n

Frankly, this is all just extremely short-sighted booking that just occurred, because MJF is probably the most protected man on the entire roster, and he had to take an L, primarily because Tony Khan waited until the last minute to start his science project, panicked and forced two of his top workers to put together a hackneyed program that resulted in both of them taking losses and swapping a belt in rapid succession.\u00a0 These two guys should be built up for at least six months for a program at Revolution, or Double or Nothing, or whatever one of AEW\u2019s show is supposed to be their grand daddy of them all.<\/span><\/p>\n

Honestly, I have no doubt in my mind that MJF being the obnoxious asshole American could have gone several more months of him showing up in other countries to wrestle their hot stars, or show up on AEW programming and defeat non-American after non-American for the title.\u00a0 Frankly, he could have carried this program on as long as he felt like carrying it, because there\u2019s really nobody better than MJF at taking the low-hanging fruit and running with it.<\/span><\/p>\n

I like Daniel Garcia, but there\u2019s no chance that he could compare with Will Ospreay in carrying his end of a feud.\u00a0 Ordinarily, I\u2019d say that MJF dropping a mid-card title is really a sign of an impending promotion, but Tony Khan doesn\u2019t seem to follow any logical rules as much as he\u2019s always trying to swerve the audience for really no other reason than because he\u2019s deliberately trying to swerve them for the sake of doing such.<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s just a shame that it\u2019s going to come at the expense of a rare MJF loss.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post could\u2019ve just as easily been called WTF is AEW doing #413, but we\u2019ve gone too far now, and the wheels of writing are already in motion.\u00a0 But after maybe what, four or five weeks after MJF defeated Will Ospreay for the re-christened American Championship in an absolute banger of a match on Dynamite … Continue reading I am not a fan of MJF\u2019s short reign as American Champion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[151,45,83,54,49,55],"class_list":["post-50146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-blets","tag-fail","tag-observations","tag-wrestling","tag-wtf","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50148,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50146\/revisions\/50148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}