At the top? Absolutely, hence why they never continued that story beyond his loss, and another contender was already in place after the match ended. AEW has a direction, and yeah there's a lot going on but they have a clearly defined destination each time they change the title. ROH has no direction or purpose right now aside from base concepts that on paper are great. It's where they go and how they get to the final destination that is the problem.Shanahan wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 6:44 pmWhen MJF lost to Moxley was his run at the top over? Shane Taylor is most likely next and guess what, hes not winning, so does that mean Shane is then buried? There is only one champ. When PCO won all we heard was how he barely had any singles wins & wasn't ready to main event...but some how Brody losing is the end of his career...Wavelet Transform wrote: ↑Tue Dec 22, 2020 2:55 pmHard to say how I'd feel about it without seeing/knowing the specifics. Just think you have to acknowledge that Brody's lower now than he was going into FB. That's not good or bad per se, depends on what the goals were. They did what they could to build up guys like Brody and Flip for FB and perhaps the goal of that was just to get through FB. With this show over, hopefully we move into more long-term booking though.
PCO winning was fucking dumb and arguably one of the dumbest moves in the history of ROH. You are in a period where you are in desperate need of top card babyfaces. Yet your top program is two heel factions albeit in different sections of the heel genre. Shane Taylor, also a heel. It's silly, and its bad booking. Watch it end up being someone out of left field to win the title next like Josh Woods.