Jungle Boy/Christian "Match" Discussion

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

So, yeah that was a thing 

Bold decision but one of many where TK may regret tonight 

[The Kevstaaa]

I like JB getting screwed and having to climb back to beat Christian but doing it after The Acclaimed and Jamie lost was a choice and the Luchasaurus writing is not good.

[Lizuka #BLM]

If you've been building up a match for over a year and a half and charge $50 for it then give people the goddamn match. You can do the Luchasaurus shit on Dynamite or afterward or something.

Honestly turning Luchasaurus heel is just completely stupid to me anyway but that's besides the point.

[Mayonnaise]

I thought it was brilliant. Yet again Christian worked everyone with Luchasaurus and JB will have to earn his way to Christian by going through his former best friend.

Plus this feud deserves time to reach a boiling point.

[Harry The Arrow was Wrong!]

Christian got injured and couldn't work the match tonight according to SRS

[chrom]

Sept 4, 2022 21:48:08 GMT -5 Harry The Arrow was Wrong! said:

Christian got injured and couldn't work the match tonight according to SRS

Then why even have it?

All they did was con the ticket and PPV buyers

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Sept 4, 2022 21:48:08 GMT -5 Harry The Arrow was Wrong! said:

Christian got injured and couldn't work the match tonight according to SRS

Wonder how late they found out

[kingoftheindies]

Made sense booking wise, maybe not the right time

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

I'm cool with the angle especially with injury. Give the crowd something even if it isn't a match it's still a pretty damn good way to keep the story going

Jungle Boy vs Luchasaurus while Christian heals, works out imo

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

Sept 4, 2022 21:45:50 GMT -5 Mayonnaise said:

I thought it was brilliant. Yet again Christian worked everyone with Luchasaurus and JB will have to earn his way to Christian by going through his former best friend.

Plus this feud deserves time to reach a boiling point.

They did telegraph the turn pretty hard between Luchasaurus not dropping the new look and theme, and him attacking Pat Buck during the backstage pull apart, and between Christian being hurt and the PPV clearly having too much shit booked on it, I didn't mind them starting with the turn with some sick production execution and creative use of the heel/face ramps. And as you said, it fit Christian's MO in this feud to a tee.

[asuka007]

It does kind of make JB look stupid though. Luchasaurus never stopped wearing his heel gear, did not change his heel theme, still had the ruthlessness that he had with Christian, etc.

JB seems to have been the only one who wasn’t suspicious.

[Facetious]

Sept 4, 2022 21:51:08 GMT -5 chrom said:

Sept 4, 2022 21:48:08 GMT -5 Harry The Arrow was Wrong! said:

Christian got injured and couldn't work the match tonight according to SRS

Then why even have it?

All they did was con the ticket and PPV buyers

Wouldn't pulling the match last second also be conning the ticket and PPV buyers? JB took a nasty beating and can feud with Luchasaurus before finally getting back to Christian.

[Lizuka #BLM]

My stance is really that it just depends on when they realized Christian couldn't have the match. If it was only a week ago then sure, whatever, they probably should've just announced the match was off but I at least understand it as an out. If they knew three weeks ago after the brawl happened that they weren't doing the All Out match then this is still stupid bullshit.

[Instant Classic]

How did Christian get injured, when has he even had a match?

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Sept 4, 2022 22:18:12 GMT -5 asuka007 said:

It does kind of make JB look stupid though. Luchasaurus never stopped wearing his heel gear, did not change his heel theme, still had the ruthlessness that he had with Christian, etc.

JB seems to have been the only one who wasn’t suspicious.

Luchasaurus didn't really make himself seem suspicious though outside of not showing up a lot, which might have been to his benefit

Could have wrote off the gear and theme as "Well I got Christian to pay for it and it looks cool"

I'd do Hair vs Mask at Arthur Ashe maybe? Maybe too much for Luchasaurus to lose as a character though

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Sept 4, 2022 23:02:06 GMT -5 Instant Classic said:

How did Christian get injured, when has he even had a match?

The report is when the Jungle Boy beatdown happened a few weeks ago, he legit got hurt there, and that elbow brace is real as much as it is storyline

But if not, guys get hurt in training/prep, look at Cody

[ISO Mid Thigh Pull]

Hate hate hated that so much.

[Kay Faban]

Sept 4, 2022 22:13:24 GMT -5 Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] said:

I'm cool with the angle especially with injury. Give the crowd something even if it isn't a match it's still a pretty damn good way to keep the story going

Jungle Boy vs Luchasaurus while Christian heals, works out imo

One day I’d love you to meet the guy that uses your screen name on the WWE Forum.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Sept 4, 2022 23:04:26 GMT -5 ISO Mid Thigh Pull said:

Hate hate hated that so much.

And then he got his ass beat in front his family which would been sympathetic any other night but tonight was just stacked on the weirdness

[Kalmia]

If AEW found out after Dynamite that Christian couldn't wrestle a match, then I'm okay with the booking here. That would be late enough that you're going to disappoint people by canceling it, so you may as well disappoint people by making an angle out of it. And it was an effective angle.

If they knew longer than that then no, I'm not impressed by it. They could have done the exact same match/angle on Dynamite instead of the six-man tag (FTR and Wardlow vs. the jobbers) and nobody would have minded it being dropped from the PPV.