>>12256580if it were a TOTAL work, it would have had to start before all in when stories were coming out about phil banning people from collision, cutting promos on hangman, and most recently, banning jack perry from using real glass, and just being a faggot in general. he could have told jack to do the cry me a river spot, setting up a fake backstage fight and getting fired, only to return as the devil in a couple of months. half or more of the people watching already hated him, this would be his full heel turn, basically becoming the antagonist of AEW.
alternatively, the backstage fight was real, then they came up with this angle shortly after, or he got shoot fired and they patched things up when the devil angle started.