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A week ago, I tuned into AEW Dynamite #250, because I bit the bait at the idea of MJF vs. Will Ospreay and Swerve Strickland vs. Kazuchika Okada.\u00a0 Now the Swerve and Okada match was a stinker and a schmozz, giving credence to Arn Anderson\u2019s adage that two talented workers don\u2019t mean they\u2019ll have any chemistry.<\/span><\/p>\n But the MJF and Will Ospreay match was definitely an instant classic, and if Dave Meltzer and the Wrestling Observer had any credibility anymore, I\u2019m sure the match probably got like some convoluted number of like 6.69 stars in his meaningless rating rubric, but the fact of the matter was that it was a great match, resulting in a surprising title change of Ospreay dropping the AEW Intercontinental<\/span> International Championship to MJF, which I kind of wasn\u2019t expecting.<\/span><\/p>\n I intended on watching this week\u2019s Dynamite, I mean BLOOD AND GUTS, because it was something I could do while I ate my dinner, but the TBS app appears to have been developed by RealPlayer and I ended up missing the first 15 minutes of the show because it simply would not stop spinning and ultimately required me to restart the app and re-login in order for it to get working again.<\/span><\/p>\n It turns out that I missed the only good thing about the show, which was the opening segment where MJF tossed the International Championship blet into the trash, and unveiled a ridiculous, gaudy new championship blet, aptly called the AEW American Championship, hilariously with no AEW logo on it anywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n The man truly continuously grasps at low-hanging fruit storylines and plot devices, but repeatedly knocks them out of the park with his above-average mic, promo and character work, and it\u2019s hilarious that he\u2019s always opening, because you know he\u2019s bouncing from the arena as soon as his work is done for the night.<\/span><\/p>\n The strap has the stars and stripes of the United States flag, and the side plates read Better Than You (And the UK) And You Know It<\/em> on one side and Only Country That Matters<\/em> on the other side.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s an abomination of a championship blet.<\/span><\/p>\n So naturally I want it.<\/span><\/p>\n Regardless of what it\u2019s called officially, it\u2019s still basically another United States championship, and I don\u2019t know why, call it patriotism or whatever, I\u2019ve always been drawn to US Championships, and I have one from most promotions where there\u2019s been one; WCW\u2019s, WWE\u2019s and even New Japan\u2019s.\u00a0 I also have the NXT North American blet, and it seems appropriate that MJF\u2019s American Championship blet would be a good addition to the collection.<\/span><\/p>\n However, AEW\u2019s replicas, at the low end is $599, and I\u2019m sure a replica would be of high quality, but that price point is just a real bitter pill to swallow.\u00a0 The most I\u2019ve ever gone on a blet is $550, and even that came from pool of house money when I was doing internet surveys obsessively for two years.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s not even available yet, so we\u2019ll see what happens in the future to whether or not I\u2019ll manage to get my hands on one of these things, but despite my self-anointed status as a premiere blet collector, I still don\u2019t have any AEW replicas, mostly on account of their egregious pricing, but if I were ever to start with any, the MJF American Championship seems like the most likely to be my first.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A week ago, I tuned into AEW Dynamite #250, because I bit the bait at the idea of MJF vs. Will Ospreay and Swerve Strickland vs. Kazuchika Okada.\u00a0 Now the Swerve and Okada match was a stinker and a schmozz, giving credence to Arn Anderson\u2019s adage that two talented workers don\u2019t mean they\u2019ll have any … Continue reading MJF and the new AEW American Championship<\/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":[151,79,191,83,54],"class_list":["post-50072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-blets","tag-cashmoney","tag-greed","tag-observations","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50074,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50072\/revisions\/50074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}