all these shitters are injured, TK needs to push Christian to the moon
he really, really honest to god fucked up not putting the strap on Tanahashi
imagine if you will, Tanahashi won the strap, comes out this Wednesday to celebrate, only to be challenged by Christian. Christian, dastardly cerebral heel that he is, finds a way to put one over on the Ace, and is the new interim AEW champion. Boom, you get to add Tanahashi to your belt's lineage and he goes back to Japan for the G1 and you still have your belt. And, most importantly, now you've got this Christian vs. Jungle Boy blood feud with the belt thrown in. Suddenly it's not some half-assed midcard feud, now it's the top feud in the company. So Jungle Boy is chasing after his revenge on Christian and the belt but Christian keeps getting away with it, time after time. Maybe Phil wins the belt back when that geek has returned from his brittle bones breaking, maybe not, I don't know.
But this is an infinitely more interesting direction to head in than fucking DEAN vs. CM Phil as the top feud of your company, which is an unironic, actual, literal 2013 WWE match. lmao.
