Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan will forever be my favorites. Their comedic timing was untouchable.
I really like it when Jericho gets in the booth and calls matches, he will have a place in wrestling until the day he dies. When they were running the empty arena he did such a great job filling in when needed. The shit with "Pineapple Pete" was hilarious and actually led to some unknown guy getting a little shine and a good match with Jericho.
People talking shit on Jericho for beating Kingston, but that man has been instrumental in getting a lot of dudes over and cementing big moments in important stories in the company. Him being the first champ was real smart. It brought instant credibilty to that belt and set up Hangman for one of the longest running stories in all of pro wrestling.
And all of the inner circle vignettes they did during quarantine were just funny as fuck.
Before AEW i liked him, but now he in my Mt. Rushmore. Truly a GOAT.
Yeah Bobby was amazing with anyone but him and Gorilla is next level. Brain's one liners will never be beat.. I think it was either the Bret Owen match or the survivor series where they mention the entire Hart family is sitting in the crowd and without missing a beat he deadpans "Is
that what that smell is?!"
Cole is fine when he's with the right partner but he's definitely a corporate robot and he's pretty insufferable when he's with the wrong partner.
I think the people bitching about Jericho going over are mostly either indy marks who see Kingston as "their guy" or newer fans who aren't used to actual long term storytelling. The same people that start talking about how they need to switch the belt 2 weeks after someone wins it and whine when they don't get a major title change on free TV. They're used to binge watching wrestling on the internet so they lose perspective and can't handle a feud playing out in real time. This is classic southern "against all odds" babyface booking and I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was ripped straight from some southern territory or 90's Japan (which was heavily influenced by the southern gaijin) feud that Kingston nerds out on. I feel like half these people will change their minds and say it was genius move when it ends with a legendary PPV match. He's obviously gonna put him over but he's going to do it properly, which means the right time and place. Dynamite shark week gimmick match ain't that time.
I'm also not sure why people think this is Jericho demanding to go over and not Eddie's idea, like you said Jericho has put tons of people over and I'm sure TK has ultimate say and would quash that in a second if it was the case. I fucking love that they're doing these escalating consequences matches and I don't understand why people can't just give them credit for a very well done match because they thought the wrong guy won.
Jericho also puts people over on commentary all the time, and manages to do it while staying heel which as Atiba mentioned is rather difficult to do well (Jesse was always surprisingly good at that too). He has plenty of faults but not knowing or respecting the business sure as hell ain't one of them.
I totally agree about putting the belt on him being one of the best moves they've made. I think people also forget that he got a TON of western eyes on NJPW with his run there, I know it caught my attention even though I wasn't really watching much wrestling at the time.
Glad you liked my wrestling buddy, it was definitely the best hiding spot I ever came up with. I got tons of shit from my friends about having basically a man shaped pillow with a hole in it, so maybe my dad just thought I was fucking it.