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Okay, I've decided to put together a quick timeline of events leading up to Hangman's promo, which set Phil off.
>Phil comes back to wrestling
>Works a program with Dary, one of the company's hottest homegrown talents.
>In his match, Phil casually sits up, laughing and shaking his head, burying Darby, his finisher and all the people it put down.
>Takes screen time to talk about just how "golly geez glad" he is to be wrestling again.
>Starts to cause issues backstage
>The focus of the show beings to shift more toward Phil
>Rumbling that people are unhappy in the locker room.
>Kingston flat out tells him, "Nobody wants you here!"
>Phil beats Kingston and gets a program with MJF.
>Cody leaves, possibly forced out.
>The first streak of a million plus vewers since the move to TBS is broken with Punk's main event against MJF. This was only the foruth episode, and no doubt caused concerns about Phil's star and drawing power. It is worth remembering that the likes of Darby, MJF, Jericho, Omega, The Bucks, Cody Rhodes, Orange Cassidy, Moxley, and Hangman have all drawn over a million in their main event matches at different points, even if the rest of the show was lacking in overall numbers.
>Episodes of Dynamite which do over a million, either don't have Phil on them or him in a reduced role and focus.
>Still, the company keeps focusing and building around him.
>More reports about people unhappy with AEW start to come out.
>OG talent gets shafted by Phil.
>A clear divide comes into the locker room.
>Fans leave as this isn't the company they enjoyed and don't like the shift to a WWE-style product.
>Hangman vents frustration boiling in the back and points to Phil's hypocrisy. "I wanna put over the new talent."
>His reign, undercut by AEW's focus on Phil and WWEjects, is ended. This is made worse by Phil botching in the match. Still, Hangman puts him over clean.
>Phil waits and then goes into business by himself.
