On last night's AEW "Winter Is Coming," "SuperShow," the ending left a lot of people talking. Kenny Omega defeated Jon Moxley - a tainted victory, but a victory none the less.
Interfering in the match was Impact Wrestling's executive vice president, Don Callis - long time friend of Omega. It's not the first time Callis has appeared on AEW TV.
After Omega pinned Moxley, he was given the belt and Callis grabbed him and they ran to the parking lot. Before they left though, Callis dropped a bomb on the prowrestling landscape:
Omega will explain all Tuesday ... on Impact Wrestling.
And for a minute wrestling fans stopped talking about Sting returning .. oh, yeah, I forgot to mention that. Sting finally appeared on AEW, after months of rumors.
The ending however created many questions, but the prevailing quandry: Why? Why would AEW allow their title on Impact Wrestling.
Impact Wrestling averages around 200,000 viewers a week - in fact, some hardcore wrestling twitter fans had no idea how to even tune in next week.
So what is the benefit for AEW?
The 3-Team Trade.
In MLB there's this thing that happens ever so often when one team needs something from another team, but doesn't have exactly what it the other team needs, so they pull a third party into the equation.
A 3-Team trade.
How I see it is: NJPW wants desperatly to run in America .. but doesn't want to do so and lose money like it did with ROH.
AEW wants to bring in NJPW stars to get the elitist fans off.
Impact wants to be relevant.
NJPW is a proud (see: Stubborn) orginization that knows that a relationship with AEW would be beneficial, but can't get passed it's own stubborness.
So it's the classic tale of the Pimp, the John, and the Whore.