The TBS SuperStation is safe from Jon Moxley… for now

I give a lot of credit to AEW. They have been seriously improving in advertising their upcoming matches on Dynamite and Collision far in advance than they typically have in the past. A few days ago, when I was looking at the upcoming card on Twitter, something caught my eye.

“MOX SEIZES THE SUPERSTATION TBS”

My initial thought was ‘what a weird thing to telegraph’. If you are going to seize something, let alone a building, the element of surprise is a key element of doing so. Hank the Security Guard has been giving ample warning for Jon Moxley’s seizure of the TBS SuperStation. However, since this announcement has ‘seized my attention’, I let it slide. Now I’m waiting with baited anticipation.

This alarming announcement harkens back to the days of the NWO. However, taking over a production truck, the commentary desk, knocking over some stage props, and forcing the camera man to switch to a black and white filter is small potatoes compared to Moxley’s plan. He wants to seize the TBS Mother Effing SuperStation!

In the immortal words of Moxley, ‘Badass!”

As I am preparing for Moxley’s seizure of the TBS SuperStation, it is playing out a number of ways in my head. I was expecting the grittiness of John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13, the audacity of Swordfish, and the one scene from V for Vendetta where an actually TV Station gets taken over. But then it hit me. This is Seizing of the TBS SuperStation is bigger than all of those.

This is Diehard… a friggin blockbuster. This seizure has to go down like the takeover of the Nakatomi Plaza. Hank the Security Guard is going to need to be on his A-Game to handle Jon Moxley and his Death Riders to protect the TBS SuperStation at all costs. Who knows what his plan is? Is Mox planning on cutting the feed and giving us a 24 hour marathon of Romper Stomper?

I am not going to compare Jon Moxley to the greatest Christmas villain of all time, Hans Gruber and his international terrorist organization. But guess what? Moxley has an international crew of bad-asses of his own to assist him in the Seizing of the TBS SuperStation!

Claudio Castignoli: He’s Swiss….which means he knows how to access bank accounts.
Marina Shafir: She is the mystery woman from Moldova with the briefcase. Just like her infamous ‘You Don’t Know Me” promo, we don’t know what’s in the briefcase.
Wheeler Yuta: Ironically, his real name is Paul Soren GRUBER (look it up). He is in no way a main character material but with his stage name, Yuta makes a perfectly good ‘wheel man’
PAC: This UK bastard is a muscle-bound mini boss the hero has to fight in order to get to the main villain. And he is kinda ‘mini’ which is refreshing for a mini boss.

With the Death Rider crew ready for the Seizure of the TBS SuperStation, an X-Factor came to mind: The Remarkable Renee Paquette. I think it is safe to assume their relationship is a bit strained. Renee has been completely ignoring her husband’s antics as of late, just focusing on her backstage interviews and filming her vanity project “Meal and a Match”. Hell, they are in the same arena each Wednesday and he has the balls to enter and leave the building with Marina Shafir! I am not even going to gauge what Roderick Strong thinks of this….he has his own storyline issues to work out now. If anyone can talk Moxley off the ledge about committing an act of terrorism after a week of telegraphing this, it’sRenee. I certainly hope that Renee is working behind the scenes to foil this dastardly plot. I certainly hope that she is not putting that hope in RJ City and Alex Marvez.

So who is the hero that is going to save the TBS Superstation in my mind? Who is the John McClane of AEW? I know Orange Cassidy is set to face Moxley at Full Gear later this mont hbut I don’t think he can shin kick his way to stop this plot. Kenny Omega based his character off of a video game action hero which makes him perfect for the role but he is too busy preparing for his grand return at an NJPW PPV (major eye roll). With MJF filming a movie on his own, I’m left with one option in mind.

Darby Allin.

We know he can do his own stunts. We know it will be ‘badass’ as Mox would put it. We also know, like John McClane, he doesn’t have an issue with glass. That’s good enough for me.

With all these thoughts in my head on how this is all to go down, Wednesday Night finally arrived! And you know what that means? Jon Moxley seizes the TBS SuperStation!

AEW Dynamite starts. I noticed that the pacing is a lot quicker than normal. Maybe they wanted to get some ‘in ring’ action in before the REAL action begins at the TBS SuperStation. Dynamite is live from Bridgeport, CT. The TBS HQ is in Atlanta, GA. Perfect set up. Tony Khan would be too busy at the gorilla position most likely fearing for his life for what is about to come. Or so I thought….

My heart dropped when I saw Jon Moxley beating the piss out of Hank the Security Guard on the stage before realizing it was just JD Drake (he does look like a nightshift security guard so anybody could have been fooled with that). Mox cuts a promo similar to Hans Gruber’s villainous monologue, but way more cryptic. But it wasn’t the same. A small brawl then ensued with our heroDarby jumping off the rafters similar to John McClane’s famous leap off the building. But it wasn’t the same.

Like a fart in a church, Moxley and his international crew of bad-asses then flee the scene in a pick up truck. I had high hopes for the guys to create a blockbuster of their own I’m going to blissfully assume this was all a ruse they are making the 16 hour drive to Atlanta, GA to finish their ‘badass’ takeover of the SuperStation. Yippe Kay Yay, Mother Effer!