AEW is guilty of repeating formulas to the point of excess. Yet when the company is hot and fans are invested, both multi-person and these big winners’ purse match-ups deliver weekly highlights. Additionally, seeing more equity between men’s and women’s divisions is a positive step. Besides, and most importantly, this match is going to kick ass! Ten of the division’s most talented wrestlers and most unique characters. Another chase to see single feuds progress. For Jamie Hayter to get her hands on Thekla or the other members of the Triangle of Madness. For Harley Cameron and TayJay to try to topple the Goddess Megan Bayne. We’re getting power battles, hard-hitting strikes, winces, and more. Last Saturday, MJF shocked fans and Mark Briscoe by returning to prevent the Sussex County chicken farmer from claiming a title shot against TNT Champion, Kyle Fletcher. Delaying his honeymoon to sabotage Briscoe and add more fuel to that unlit fire seems fitting for the Devil. In kayfabe, we know MJF doesn’t watch the show, meaning he’s missed the promos where Briscoe threatened to kill him.

Briscoe’s comic persona is shedding. Like other perennial babyfaces before him, who fans have been desperate to see pushed, patience was required. Over the past few months, Briscoe has become one of several men who can fill the gap left by injured main eventers. This is no longer about little kosher pickles or a guaranteed title match contract that Briscoe believed MJF screwed him out of. MJF, twice, brought up Jay Briscoe and threatened to burn Briscoe before Forbidden Door. It suggests the stipulation could fall into the category of AEW’s violent splendour. Or perhaps Briscoe, if intelligence portrays over anger, gives MJF a taste of his own medicine. A match with stipulations working against the Salt of the Earth. Even puts that guaranteed title shot up for grabs.