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- Sep 25, 2021
The whole Hook drama could have easily been avoided if they would have booked it better while still making Hook look strong and not burying Joe's finisher completely (and make him look weak).
You start the match with an overmotivated Hook who gets his offensive. Joe blocks and avoids and counters. At some point Hook get's a bit to overmotivated (he is still young and thus inexpericened while Joe is a veteran) and Joe lands the one brutal strike he needs and which gives him the upper hand. Give Joe a few more brutal strikes, kicks and whatever -not too much of course bc otherwise you bury Hook- before Joe goes to the muscle buster. You want Hook to kick out? Fine, do it at 2.999999. Joe gets pissed off bc "how dare Hook to kick out" and chokes Hook out. Joe wins and then he picks an unconscious Hook and gives him another muscle buster. Cut the shit with Hangman "saving" Hook. Have instead Joe in the ring and disrespecting a still unconscious Hook. Like Hooks lies on the ground and Joe puts one of his feet on Hook like he just shot some deer and flexes his muscles. Let Taz jump up from the commentary table and yell at Joe like a maniac. Then you end the show while Joe triumphs in the ring, You want to sell it more? Show medical stuff going in the ring in the background while you cut out of the show.
Now you take Hook completely off from TV for 2-3 weeks to sell the brutality of Joe's 2nd muscle buster. On next Dynamite you have a short skit where someone talks about Hook being wrecked and that he can't compete. Let Taz sell it further on commentary and do a short interview with Rene and Joe where Joe shits further on Hook and how he wasn't a challenge.
Hook comes back, is pissed about Joe and demands a rematch. Do the rematch, do it longer and more balanced and competitive. You don't want to sacrifice Hook to Joe's finisher? Fine, let Joe cheat and knock Hook out with the belt. Joe is a heel, he is allowed to cheat (don't overbook the cheating!). 3rd match is off the table bc "fuck you Hook, we had two matches and I won both. Go back in line". Done.
You protected Joe as heel champ, Hook got two title shots while still looking lik a credible challenger.
It's really not that hard to book stuff when you have a clear vision of what you want to do, know what you are doing and what you have to do and especially don't just carter to marks. It's weird that a life long fan of wrestling like Tony is doesn't grasp such details. Everything has to be booked the special Tony Khan way instead of booking stuff in established patterns that bear a minimal level of logic within itself.
In the end Joe didn't get really buried bc he is Joe. He is well enough established and the AEW crowd likes him anyways (as do I). But they missed another chance to actually garner new fans, people not part of the AEW cult, by showing that they can actually do good sports entertainment.
It's also kind of weird to see AEW marks getting constantly butthurt when people shit on the product bc of it's flaws while WWE eats shit from people for their creative decisions and booking for years. I don't see Triple H crying on Twitter. And Twitter was long enough around for Vince to get an account himself and make an ass out of himself. Weird how that never happened.
Or how people have trashed TNA/Impact over decades now and I don't see TNA people constantly crying on Twitter. Speaking of TNA: the AEW people should actually take a close look at TNA bc once your reputation is in the gutter it's hard to come back to former hights. If there is one thing you can learn from TNA then how hard it is to build up your reputation again and bringing back fans. AEW already tanked two of their three shows.
You start the match with an overmotivated Hook who gets his offensive. Joe blocks and avoids and counters. At some point Hook get's a bit to overmotivated (he is still young and thus inexpericened while Joe is a veteran) and Joe lands the one brutal strike he needs and which gives him the upper hand. Give Joe a few more brutal strikes, kicks and whatever -not too much of course bc otherwise you bury Hook- before Joe goes to the muscle buster. You want Hook to kick out? Fine, do it at 2.999999. Joe gets pissed off bc "how dare Hook to kick out" and chokes Hook out. Joe wins and then he picks an unconscious Hook and gives him another muscle buster. Cut the shit with Hangman "saving" Hook. Have instead Joe in the ring and disrespecting a still unconscious Hook. Like Hooks lies on the ground and Joe puts one of his feet on Hook like he just shot some deer and flexes his muscles. Let Taz jump up from the commentary table and yell at Joe like a maniac. Then you end the show while Joe triumphs in the ring, You want to sell it more? Show medical stuff going in the ring in the background while you cut out of the show.
Now you take Hook completely off from TV for 2-3 weeks to sell the brutality of Joe's 2nd muscle buster. On next Dynamite you have a short skit where someone talks about Hook being wrecked and that he can't compete. Let Taz sell it further on commentary and do a short interview with Rene and Joe where Joe shits further on Hook and how he wasn't a challenge.
Hook comes back, is pissed about Joe and demands a rematch. Do the rematch, do it longer and more balanced and competitive. You don't want to sacrifice Hook to Joe's finisher? Fine, let Joe cheat and knock Hook out with the belt. Joe is a heel, he is allowed to cheat (don't overbook the cheating!). 3rd match is off the table bc "fuck you Hook, we had two matches and I won both. Go back in line". Done.
You protected Joe as heel champ, Hook got two title shots while still looking lik a credible challenger.
It's really not that hard to book stuff when you have a clear vision of what you want to do, know what you are doing and what you have to do and especially don't just carter to marks. It's weird that a life long fan of wrestling like Tony is doesn't grasp such details. Everything has to be booked the special Tony Khan way instead of booking stuff in established patterns that bear a minimal level of logic within itself.
In the end Joe didn't get really buried bc he is Joe. He is well enough established and the AEW crowd likes him anyways (as do I). But they missed another chance to actually garner new fans, people not part of the AEW cult, by showing that they can actually do good sports entertainment.
It's also kind of weird to see AEW marks getting constantly butthurt when people shit on the product bc of it's flaws while WWE eats shit from people for their creative decisions and booking for years. I don't see Triple H crying on Twitter. And Twitter was long enough around for Vince to get an account himself and make an ass out of himself. Weird how that never happened.
Or how people have trashed TNA/Impact over decades now and I don't see TNA people constantly crying on Twitter. Speaking of TNA: the AEW people should actually take a close look at TNA bc once your reputation is in the gutter it's hard to come back to former hights. If there is one thing you can learn from TNA then how hard it is to build up your reputation again and bringing back fans. AEW already tanked two of their three shows.
