AEW Fight For The Fallen: 3 not-so-subtle shots AEW fired at WWE 

AEW continues to take shots at WWE!
AEW continues to take shots at WWE!

AEW presented their third pay-per-view last night live from Jacksonville, Florida but this one was all in aid of charity. The last two pay-per-views have seen AEW stars take a number of shots at WWE since they are former members of WWE's conglomerate company and decided to make a statement.

Allie and Cody Rhodes were the main ones trading the shots at Fyter Fest, whilst Rhodes was the one who destroyed a Triple H style throne to announce that AEW had arrived at Double or Nothing.

It seems that WWE and AEW are at war regardless of what they speak publically about since AEW can't go a single show without firing shots at other wrestling companies which makes many fans wonder how they're going to survive when they are a weekly TV show in October.


#3 Cody Rhodes' entrance

Cody Rhodes really wants to fire shots at WWE
Cody Rhodes really wants to fire shots at WWE

Real-life brothers Cody Rhodes and Dustin Rhodes teamed up against Nick and Matt Jackson in the main event of Fight For The Fallen, but there was a new addition to Rhodes' theme as he made his way to the ring once again as The American Nightmare.

Ahead of his music, Rhodes theme states "Wrestling has more than one royal family" which could be a shot at a number of different families in the business, but it's likely that the McMahon family were the ones that Rhodes was hoping to offend since they are the IT family when it comes to the wrestling business.

Rhodes has used this theme since he first left WWE, but this is the first time he has used this opening in AEW.

Rhodes seems to have a deep-rooted hatred for everything WWE ever since his departure and whenever possible he always tries to ensure that he makes it clear. Will Rhodes continue to use this as the beginning of his theme or was this enough to make his point? Only time will tell.

#2 Chris Jericho firing shots at TNA and WWE?

Chris Jericho attacked Adam Page ahead of their All Out match
Chris Jericho attacked Adam Page ahead of their All Out match

Chris Jericho wasn't booked on the show to wrestle a match since he was already preparing himself for his match against Hangman Page at All Out next month, which is why it came as quite the surprise when he made his way to the ring in a full black suit with a mask to match and attacked Page after his victory over Kip Sabian.

Back at Slammiversary, Rhyno debuted and attacked Michael Elgin in the same get up before he delivered Gore and even though he didn't reveal his face, it was clear that it was him. Jericho hit the Codebreaker before revealing that he was, in fact, Jericho, much like Cedric Alexander on Raw when he was under a mask but delivered all the same moves he used to so it was clear who he was before he took the mask off.

#1 Cody Rhodes fired real shots at WWE

Rhodes shared his thoughts on the fact that WWE aired Evolve on the same night
Rhodes shared his thoughts on the fact that WWE aired Evolve on the same night

WWE decided to raise the stakes in their war with AEW last night since the company streamed Evolve's 10th Anniversary show on the WWE Network at the same time as Fight for the Fallen in the hopes that it would be seen as competition since a number of NXT stars were involved.

Kenny Omega tweeted and then removed his thoughts on this but it appears that Cody Rhodes has his own opinion on the matter since he took the live mic at the end of the show and stated: "You can’t counter-program what All Elite Wrestling is doing.” He also went on to call AEW a revolution which shows that as one of the main people spearheading the company, Cody Rhodes is gearing himself up for a fight.


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