AEW Dynamite: Results, Highlights and Grades for Nov. 13

AEW Champion Chris Jericho gloats about still being Le Champion.

The champ says he proved at Full Gear why he is “the greatest of all time, baby!” He says he demands a thank you from every single member of the AEW roster. Nashville crowd boos him, but he says they don’t matter but he doesn’t care. He’s beaten everybody put in front of him, and now proves Cody isn’t as good as he thinks he is. Cody is nothing but an “entitled, millennial, son of a b****.”

Suddenly, Chris Jericho is interrupted by Maxwell Jacob Friedman, entering to Cody’s music. The boos are deafening as he makes his way to the ring, to the visible confusion of Jericho. He says people boo him for throwing the towel in for Cody, but they don’t understand Cody would be seriously injured if he didn’t do so. He also adds that the real villain of this story is Mr. Cody Rhodes, and he doesn’t care about anyone but himself.

MJF claims to know the “real Cody” as a “liar … user and abuser.” He says Cody used MJF as someone he could mold into a puppet. The crowd literally calls BS, but MJF says the real BS is the idea that Cody ever cared about MJF. He says whether the people want to believe it or not, they are looking at the new face of AEW, because he is better than Cody Rhodes, and Cody knows it. He adds Cody isn’t even in the building because he doesn’t care about the fans.

He then repackages his energy to the direction of Mr. Le Champion. He big-ups Jericho as someone who belongs on wrestling’s Mount Rushmore. MJF says he heard a rumor Jericho wanted to recruit him for The Inner Circle, while Jericho says he heard a rumor that MJF wanted to join The Inner Circle.

MJF says as much as Jericho wants him to join “The Inner Circle Jerk,” he doesn’t need Jericho. Jericho retorts that MJF actually wants to be a little like Chris Jericho. He points out their parallels (i.e. both love scarfs, have three letter nicknames) and says being in the ring with Jericho immediately puts him on a bigger level.

They argue about which one of them really wants MJF to be in The Inner Circle, before hugging it out to agree that the biggest jackass in AEW is Cody Rhodes. Speak of the devil, Cody marches his way down to the ring. Producers try to hold him back, but Cody bumrushes the ring and immediately charges after MJF. He takes on both men by himself and lays them both out.

Jericho retreats while Cody teases inflicting more damage on MJF before getting blindsided by a debuting, monstrous Wardlow.

MJF orders Wardlow to attack Cody, then choke him with his own tie over the ring rope. Refs and producers storm down to break up the melee. The heels retreat to the back as Cody is helped out to the back.

Grade: A+

A+ for the MJF / Jericho exchange alone. Two fantastic talkers talking their butts off. Nice to see Wardlow finally debut as well (although I wouldn’t have booked a ripped, beast of a guy to debut in a suit covering his muscles, but that’s just me). Really interested to see where this MJF and Wardlow partnership goes, as well as how Cody’s feud with both men progresses.