I’ll be glad when he signs somewhere because him constantly doing this is getting old
I would take hammerstone being the devil.
It has to be someone who is a holdover indie top drawing grassroots guy for real.
It is only a few names who make could make it good.
Hammerstone
Jacob fatu
Mad kruger = in a hood already.
Nigel
Austin aries
In aew.
It really is only one guy in aew.
who could be the devil.
Wardlow
As he has extreme heat with joe and mjf.
Plus seems to be held back politically since return.
outside of wardlow or maybe jericho.
There really is no one left in aew or the untapped indies.
who has a grassroots draw and legacy to make the devil.
Only other one that makes sense and can draw upon some background in character establishing promo is Christopher daniels. Who has a freaky eye. [Which I feel adds to his heel character]
Which I think has taken shape as a backstage agent.
so daniels maybe in fukk it i quot trying to prove i am the original best guy after making it to aew and having stability. I get that.
so daniels really is an outlier as a solution. Yet you need the litmus test idea.
of what daniels was to the indies.
So this angle is gonna have to recreate an indie renaissance in aew. As the backlash from trying to redo.
the worst large promotional based angle in wrasslin history.
a third time.
Is gonna be difficult to fix.
It ruined sting completely as a gateway rival to hogun mainstream draw for almost a decade. Yet since sting was used correctly in the nwo. They fixed what they broke in wcw at least the one time they needed it to beat the wwf.
In the wwf.
Only reason it did not ruin scsa.
was because scsa could do no wrong at that point and people knew vkm was a pos.
vkm slighted and stole daniels whole gimmick and then by wrestling shadows played bigger is better semantics. When daniels had incredible aesthetics and convincability. When wwe had no idea and still has no idea.
how to create a real villain heel frfr.
as well as wwe being a gateway arena for wrasslin. Where that narrative is not the lead narrative.
for a young indie promotion with resources.
In this instance khan is just exposing khan does not know the narratives of domestic American independent wrasslin. Plus should have never used a failed large promotional gimmick on a fed based on workrate. We never needed sports entertainment style match content.
Just a revisit in legacy to the indie heroes who saved wrasslin. Indie wrasslin already had a lead narrative.
The narrative was.
If you good enough.
you go over by besting Christopher daniels Via domestic fighting spirit. All of wrasslin is literally daniels vs styles on loop in any promotions. All of wrasslin is daniels vs styles. As daniels vs styles workrate is how roh came to permeate.
shyt cody got to be a headliner from this narrative and later ruined this dynamic in roh. That roh never recovered. That khan owns roh now. By eliminating the daniels dynamic and then taking away the grace governing narrative of the indies. that failure to detail and dynamic. It ruins aew.
When if khan knew this. Khan would have setup daniels as the leader of the darkorder. Plus the lead villain hell and stable in the promotion.
to give it structure and attach to the indie narrative. Having Kaz and Scorpio get the tag titles as a swerve made no sense when aew started. As this whole mystery should have happened. With the dark order and daniels as the leader.
when aew started and culminated with the aew babyface of choice.
running the gauntlet to establish the indie hero wrassler that could angle in aew. By not doing that. It ruined exactly how aew came to be.
from the indie wrasslers who saved wrasslin.
Over time I have seen khan showcase.
he never did any braintrust on the narrative.
on just how this all happened.
Imo....
You could fix this dynamic with Aries as the big indie belt collector bad. Opposed to omega. Have Aries come in and say.
You came in and lied to the world. You stole my thunder as the belt collector in the world. When I ran the gauntlet as the belt collector. Then you never contacted me to even beat.
that fraud belt collector in omega. I had to live a life of desperation and scorched earth.
Now you see the result of that desperation.
you get the real indie devil. The vegan villain...austin aries.
Yet I do not think khan knows he has an out just sitting there. Who would be the same as signing punk but arguably way better in every way. if given the ball and not disrespected as a draw.
Art Barr
