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WHY AEW WON'T BE HAVING MORE SURPRISE DEBUTS ON DYNAMITE, CHRISTIAN CAGE ON RETURN MATCH

Christian Cage was on the latest edition of Chris Jericho's podcast today with the episode having been taped after Christian Cage's in-ring debut for AEW.

Interesting to note is that Jericho commented that the reason Paul Wight's debut was not a surprise and the reason one would think Cage's debut was a surprise on PPV was feedback from TNT officials.  Jericho stated that after Sting debuted as a surprise on Dynamite following the "Winter is Coming" promotional build, TNT requested that AEW not do surprises in that vein going forward and instead lean into announcing talents to "take advantage of the ratings."  So, that's explains why there was a press release to push Wight signing with the company.  I would advise everyone reading this to remember everything is subject to change, so this doesn't mean there will never, ever, ever be a surprise debut ever again on Dynamite, just that it's what TNT, according to Jericho, currently wants, so obviously AEW is going to listen to their broadcast partner.

Cage stated that he and Tony Khan purposely picked Frankie Kazarian as his first in-ring opponent in order to have a match where each talent would come out stronger.   Cage said he was thinking Kazarian and then Khan made the suggestion.  Cage thought about it and then texted Khan back that Kazarian was the right guy.  He said the first person he saw when he returned was Khan, who congratulated him.  He went back to Khan and told him that he doesn't know what it meant to Cage that Khan signed him "sight unseen" and he doesn't know how hard Cage will work for him going forward in the future.  Cage said he's taking the "outwork" thing seriously and the work just started.

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