AEW: Three angles that need to go away to improve Dynamite and Rampage

AEW has been building a reputation for putting together great stories and delivering compelling professional wrestling both at its pay-per-views as well as on its weekly television shows.

And while the majority of their programming has been very enjoyable there have also been those angles that have completely missed the mark.

And unfortunately, we are in the middle of three angles that are dragging down AEW television.

Below are the three storylines that AEW would be better off without.

The Jericho Appreciation Society

Six weeks ago, most wrestling fans would agree that it was time for the Inner Circle to disband.  Sammy Guevara was finding his footing as a singles star, and Santana and Ortiz had been held back from the tag team title scene for far too long, serving as Jericho’s backup instead of focusing on their own careers.

So when Jericho hit Santana with his bat, officially signifying the end of the Inner Circle, most fans of AEW were happy and ready for what was next.

Little did they know that the Jericho Appreciate Society was what was on deck.

The JAS is nothing more than a less interesting version of the original Inner Circle, coming to us about six months after we were already bored with the faction.

Only the faction has lost the charisma of a Sammy Guevara and the versatility of Santana and Ortiz and replaced them with three men who are talented but haven’t done much more than put people over during their time in AEW.

The gimmick is lame.   Once their feud with Kingston, Santana, and Ortiz is over the JAS should go their separate ways.

Hager can stick with a heel Jericho as his muscle, and Garcia and 2.0 can go back to the insufferable heel threesome they were before this bad idea came to life.

Sammy Guevara and Tay Conti

In the not too distant past, Sammy Guevara was an up-and-coming face that was wildly over with the crowd because of his ability to put on a great show in the ring.

At the same time, Tay Conti was one of the most improved wrestlers on the roster that had endeared herself to fans due to her heart in the ring and her big sister-like relationship with Brodie Lee Jr, also known as Negative One.

Guevara and Conti would enter into an off-screen relationship, which is their business but it also started a shift in the way that fans felt about them.

And once their off-screen relationship started to include an on-screen one as well, most fans had seen enough.

On-screen relationships, especially ones that are formed from actual relationships, never seem to get over well with wrestling fans, and Guevara and Conti’s relationship has been no exception.

And if you need any further proof of that, Guevara’s match with Scorpio Sky for the TNT Title on last Saturday’s Battle of the Belts 2 should provide everything that you need.

Wrestling in Texas, the home state of Guevara, against the clear heel Scorpio Sky who had the very unpopular Dan Lambert in his corner, the majority of the crowd spent their time booing Sammy Guevara and cheering Sky.

In a surprise move, Guevara would resort to a low blow to secure the win over Scorpio Sky, seemingly embracing the full-blown heel turn.

But what the promotion needs to understand is that Guevara and Conti aren’t being booed because they are successful heels, they are being booed because the crowd doesn’t like seeing them together during their wrestling programming.

And until something changes, Guevara and Conti are going to continue to get the sort of heat that Cody Rhodes was receiving until he left AEW.

Dan Lambert’s association with The Men of the Year

Dan Lambert hasn’t really impressed in his time with AEW.

While Lambert does have a certain flair on the microphone, he has gone about it in the wrong way and has been the frontman for the wrong people.

While MJF has been known to cross some lines on the microphone during his promos, he is able to get away with it because of his charisma and his ability to quickly transition from one topic to another, using the snide comments that cross the line as supporting arguments to his main points.

Lambert uses the line crossing name-calling as the focal point of his promos.  Most of which center around degrading whichever woman he has his sights set on that week.  If this is the point Lambert wants to get across then he should pass the microphone to Paige VanZant and let her deliver the message.   From a woman, it comes across as smack-talk, from a man it is just distasteful.

Another infuriating thing about Lambert is that he has been associated with Scorpio Sky and Ethan Page, two men that can more than hold their own on the mic, and do so without having to reach for the lowest hanging fruit in their promos.

Lambert has a place in AEW.  But he would be better suited to being the mouthpiece of a Brian Cage or Jake Hager-type competitor, and he would be well served to keep his shaming promos directed at men and let the women handle their own business.