I know it's popular to hate on AEW but this is brilliant booking, but it being thrown together on collision and not the main storyline in the company tells me Tony might have booked this on accident.
Jericho and Moxley have the same gimmick. They want to mentor the young AEW talent. This unites them, however, Jericho does it to glorify himself, and despite the desire Mox has no clue how to do it. His trouble childhood has left him only understanding violence, he can't comprehend compassion.
Cope and FTR are the veterans who mentor the right way and uplift the young talent around them instead of using them as goons or victims.
It's the perfect match up, however I think mentoring talent goes against AEW's ethos, this is what Punk didn't fit in. It is ALL elite wrestling, not some elite and some soon to be elite wrestling. In the end Moxley needs to be proven wrong, either by being dethroned by a fellow veteran like Cope, or just completely overwhelmed by an incoming talent he had no chance to shape with his gang like beatdowns.
