Who else is excited for The Golden Screwjob III?
Featuring, just like the first two:
Another Very Special Episode of Dynamite That Is Not A PPV!
Definitely Not On The Verge of Going Heel Kenny Omega!
With only his oldest and most loyal crony, having once again sent the Young Bucks far away while pretending everything is fine!
Don Callis being very unhappy with the current setup of his family/managed talent and talking about Betrayals
An MJF who has been a killer Face Champion who has been treated like a heel and disrespected by everyone in the company and only responds to the worst disrespect in kind
All while still winning his matches and title defenses cleanly and in ways that even commentary can't deny are legendary (like kicking out of the Jay Driller before a clean pin then getting called a cheat and booed less than a minute later) while also encouraging others on the roster defenses and fighting defenses on Dynamite regularly-
But I'm SURE a pattern won't continue where Kenny wins but only by screwing over MJF, anything could happen really I'm not even sure why I made this connection.
Great shit.
MJF opening by handing over the DDR as a symbol of good faith and poking at Kenny's image as the squeaky clean boy (who came out in Golden Lovers gear) by making a nod that HE certainly doesn't have an incest kink. But of course when things get really down to the nitty gritty, Max has another ring (he has Six, everyone forgets he has Six, they forget he can wrestle) as a contingency plan just in case that he probably never plans to have to need to use but the Triple-B is too important to not have a backup.
MJF repeatedly 'cheating' for most of the match only by doing things that Kenny has done in matches in the last couple of months like the ref interference that then immediately turns into jumping Kenny when he's off balance and the ref doesn't see, while still never taking the easy opportunity to make a bunch of gut-shots at his weak spot, just like Swerve in his match with Kenny.
Kenny intentionally tripping and falling on ropes on his stomach or falling hard and out of the ring when there's no reason for him to do so while MJF laughs 'really?' and Kenny crawls pathetically, coughing and holding his stomach to gain sympathy or dabbing at invisible sand in his eyes to monopolize the medics for long periods of rest time. Just like Darby did during his matches to avoid fighting in the ring where he could be pinned by more technically sound opponents before he had exhausted them.
This is also taking huge amounts of referee attention and sympathy, which is especially easy to milk from Bryce for the faces. But in doing so he's managed to make sure that the medics don't look at MJF after he goes through the table, or ever let him get a word in as MJF's knee starts really giving out, just like it started to at the end of his first title reign in 2023, and is further targeted by Omega. And so, unable to access the even playing field and resources the champion should have, MJF reaches for his safety net: The Triple B and Dynamite Diamond Ring.
Because why try to tell them? They don't care. You've tried to tell them so many times and they don't care. Even if they acknowledge that you didn't cheat or were the best or anything they still hate you. You can only rely on yourself and the resources you've put aside to protect yourself for an emergency. And after that hurricanarana off the top rope, he's got nothing left to prove.
He pulls out the BBB, limping past medical who don't ask if he's all right and waits for Bryce to finally stop asking Kenny if he's good long enough to notice him long enough to confiscate it, before pulling out the second DDR. And then Ospreay runs in. Gosh, Ospreay sure has been clear in hinting who he's been supporting the last few days hasn't he? Will grabs him, stopping him from making a huge mistake and cheating.
But oh, Bryce hasn't thrown the BBB far enough, and Kenny is giving in to old heel champ ways of running the belt to hit his competitor, but hesitates at the last second, looking around at the crowd (who are chanting for him to do it anyways). MJF giving in to his old ways of cartoonish begging followed by the low-blow. A perfect 1-2 reversion. Kenny hasn't learned not to care what people think of him yet, wants the audience to think of him as the good guy even if they chant for him to do heelish acts, it's why he sent the Young Bucks away again, just like last time. Max has evolved beyond caring about the audience, and he'll do whatever it takes to keep hold of what matters most in the world to him.
MJF takes a leaf out of Kenny's playbook then and uses the Triple B to brain Kenny before tossing it out of the ring. The Camera follows the BBB, as Excalibur says "and it could be his undoing."
Kenny Omega kicks out at one. A new champion is already assured.
Because this is the first time in history that MJF has ever done anything, to disrespect the Big Burberry Belt, physically, spiritually, or emotionally. And casually using it as a weapon like in The Cleaner's moveset as an illegal desperation disqualifying attack, in a title defense match with a career stipulation attached, then also casually hucking it out of the ring onto the ground face-down to get all kinds of potential damage and indignities?
Without thinking, out of clarity of purpose to do Anything to Keep the thing that mattered most to him in the world, in a moment of desperation, MJF ended up defiling it by mimicking the very man he was trying to defeat, and therefore no longer being worthy of holding the title.
And That is a Real Screwjob. Beautiful.
