Jimmy Havoc

There's lots to choose from.

Okay, who else? Who else? Who else? Who else? Decklin versus Jimmy Havoc?

Yes.

Okay.

If anything, the distinction would become one of AEW's recurring challenges 'cause they would show an ability to manufacture the breakthrough moment when finding the months after the moment considerably more difficult.

The same philosophy visible, Darby Allin defeating Jimmy Havoc to earn the AEW World Championship opportunity against Chris Jericho.

Darby, at the time, wasn't this national name, not a national profile of the wrestlers around whom AEW had initially been promoting, but that was precisely why placing him opposite Jericho, as we talked about in the happy hour, was important.

AEW couldn't spend its first year merely confirming that the wrestlers everybody already knew were better than the wrestlers they didn't.

So night one, Jack Sexsmith, because Jack, Jack's got a lotta, lotta spoons in the porridge because, yeah, he was fighting off Eddie on night two.

But let's not forget in the previous chapter, chapter 56, Jack Sexsmith was brutally, brutally beat down by the tandem of Mark Haskins and Jimmy Havoc.

This new Two-man power trip of sorts.

Very Stone Cold, Triple H-esque, this situation here.

Two, two main event guys, Jimmy Havoc and Mark Haskins, that have kind of been left behind recently, have kind of been a little cold creatively, I would say, um, but now have come together with Mark's wife, Vicki Haskins.

So we got Haskins, Haskins, and Havoc, otherwise known as Triple H, [laughs] so coming out here.

Glenn Joseph on commentary keeps calling them The Three H's, which I hope that's not their fucking name.

An un- an unnecessary amount of tape, but they tape Riddle to the ring post, so he's no longer a factor in this match.

Stuff like just like again the the time warp back to early AEW which feels like a totally different universe Then then what we've got going on right now Like just to kind of give folks like an idea of what a W look like at the time So in this match pack defeats Kenny Omega.

And the follow-up to that is a three-way Cracker Barrel clash match between Jimmy Havoc, Darby Allen, and Joey Janela.

One of my favorite matches of all time.

Weird that it did not involve the Young Bucks because they were the big Cracker Barrel homeboys on the show at the time.

I just-

Jimmy Havoc's still out there walking the streets.

I, I, I just want this to stop.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like, uh, I mean, the, the, the thing I remember James Storm, uh, and after that abortive NXT run was, um, main eventing an, uh, inexplicable IPW:UK WrestleMania weekend show against, uh, Jimmy Havoc, where it only drew 15 people despite the fact they were selling tickets for $1.

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Which is ar- which is arguably more humiliating than if they'd just given the tickets away.

It just, it just allowed, you were just allowed to write about it.

They were the hot India time, you know? I think this was around the Jimmy Havoc title.

People were memory old.

I remember I applied for PW Ponderings.