The identity of the AEW Devil has been one of the company’s great mysteries to date, and it added a few new twists on this week’s episode of Dynamite.
For starters, the Devil’s goons attacked MJF directly, something they’ve largely avoided doing in favor of going after people associated with them. One of them was wielding a baseball bat, but they were eventually chased away by Samoa Joe.
The other new development was that the Devil communicated by text through the giant video screen, challenging MJF and Joe to a tag team match next Wednesday. The AEW World Champion angrily accepted, leaving Joe looking a bit upset for doing so.
The implication of MJF and Joe facing “the unknown,” as the Devil put it, is that they’ll take on the person behind the mask and one random goon. We just don’t know who the former actually is.
Or do we? A point of interest that spread quickly around social media Wednesday night was that Wardlow, who won a typically quick match against AR Fox, had his hair looking a little sloppy.
You know, like when you take off a mask and don’t have time to fix it.
Wardlow needs to brush that hair of his 😉#AEWDynamite
— Steven Muehlhausen (@SMuehlhausenJr) November 30, 2023
The only problem with the Wardlow theory is that when the Devil has made brief on-screen appearances, it doesn’t look like someone with his unmistakable build. This has led to some suggesting multiple people have been sharing the Devil mask — that there’s a group of wrestlers with grievances against MJF that are working together to engineer his downfall, and the mask is worn by all of them at some point.
Regardless, that was a very large human being in the ring with the bat in Minneapolis, and along with the hair thing, Wardlow seems likely to be involved even if he’s not the mastermind. He certainly has motive as his history with MJF is more personal than most. The whole Devil storyline feels like it’s building to a crescendo, and it might finally all get revealed at Worlds End a month from now.
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