The Devil’s Due
The show opens not with pyro, but with a moment of silence. A video package highlights the “Fight for the Fallen” cause—showing first responders and survivors. As the lights rise, MJF stands in the center of the ring, not as the flamboyant "Devil," but as a battered, exhausted World Champion. He has no music. No scarf.
He announces that AEW will donate 100% of his merchandise sales for the night to the Fallen Foundation. The crowd cheers, but then… AEW Dynamite 2024 01 01 Fight For The Fallen HD...
The match is brutal, storytelling-driven. Page wrestles with desperation, trying to win the title for his family. Joe wrestles with a cold, logical violence. Ref bump at the 20-minute mark.
Cole reveals doctored backstage footage from October (shot in HD, grainy style) showing MJF secretly paying off Samoa Joe to “hold back” during their last title defense, implying Maxwell has been playing a double game all along. The Devil’s Due The show opens not with
As Joe locks in the Coquina Clutch on Page, Adam Cole limps down the ramp with the Devil mask on. He slides into the ring and levels Samoa Joe with the real AEW World Title belt. Cole then drags a unconscious Hangman Page on top of Joe. A second ref runs down.
1…2…3.
is the new AEW World Champion. But he doesn’t celebrate. He wakes up confused as Cole grabs a microphone.
The camera pans to a locker room door. MJF is sitting alone, back against the wall, watching the monitor. He smirks, pulls out a diamond ring (the one he gave Cole), and whispers: “You always were a slow learner, Adam.” He has no music