Christopher Daniels Botch: Work or Legit?

[Dub H]

Again on AEW Dark they brought up how Daniels' slip up is affecting him, starting to think we got worked,brother jack.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

I don't think Daniels would botch a moonsault intentionally, especially when you consider how he almost paralyzed himself with a similar botch on Nitro years ago.

[Mozenrath]

I think he's just good enough and savvy enough to make even a f***up part of his story.

[Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby]

Legit. Dude landed on his side in a manner that is very much not how anybody bumps intentionally when landing on a flat surface. They might even have planned for him to miss the move, but not that way. I do think that Pentagon and Daniels improv'ed pretty well from it - just re-watched and noticed that Pentagon very much let Daniels get back in the ring on his own power instead of trying to do a move for a more smooth transition.

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At this point it doesn't matter, it's been seamlessly worked into an angle and I applaud them for it, because it shows how quick they can think on the fly even if it wasn;t intentional

[Cyno]

I think it was a legit botch, but AEW has a certain ability to turn lemons into lemonade and Daniels is one of the better minds in the business in terms of wrestling IQ. So they took the botch and incorporated it into an angle that plays into Daniels' insecurities.

Now the Brandon Cutler top rope botch he had in his first match vs MJF I thought was completely intentional.

[sunnytaker]

Jan 7, 2020 22:20:33 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

I think he's just good enough and savvy enough to make even a f***up part of his story.

yeah I think runs along the lines of his "world tag team champions, of the world" comment in TNA. then rather admitting he goofed (probably meant tag team champs of the world but forgot the titles were billed as the world tag team champions and said both), he doubled down on it and started using it every time he was a tag champ from that time on like he meant to say it all along. I can easily see him botching legit and rolling with it because it tied into "daniels is a loser and an old man who's past it" storyline they had just started the week(?) before.

[markymark]

It was a legit botch, that later turned into a work.