Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Rick Ross has called Keith Lee a big motherfucker during ranting moment on stage.
The last time Rick Ross was on Dynamite, he was only on screen for a minute or so. But in the brief amount of time he was on-screen with Swerve in our Glory, Ricky Rozay made quite an impression. Throw in the fact Ross has spent the last fifteen-plus years as a chart-topping rapper… bringing him back was a no brainer for AEW.
It happened on the Dec. 21 Dynamite from San Antonio. The Maybach Music impresario was back to moderate a face-to-face between Swerve Strickland and Keith Lee. This time they were in the ring, and they got a little more time.
Ross didn’t disappoint, stalling for time in the ring with Lee with a question the Warner Bros Discovery standards & practices folks probably weren’t thrilled with…Once the man Rick calls “Young Legend” arrived, Ross was able to deliver what I consider his AEW catchphrase (Accusations… FALSE Accusations) en route to revealing the point of the segment. It was, of course, a trap. And one which introduced us to a new stable.
Meet Mogul Affiliates: Swerve, Ross, Parker Boudreaux, and some other scary looking dude I’ve never seen before.
Their beatdown was emcee-ed by Ross, which was pretty amazing IMHO. It culminated in a spot where Boudreaux & the other guy held a cinder block on Keith’s chest so Swerve could deliver a stomp onto it.
Parker Boudreaux and an unidentified wrestler ended up attacking Lee. Swerve hit the stomp off the top rope to Lee on the outside of the ring while Lee had a cinder block laid out on his chest. Swerve’s new faction was called The Mogul Affiliates.
After getting acquainted with Lee, Ross prompted the truck to hit Strickland’s music so he could introduce the “young legend”. Strickland’s music didn’t hit, nor did the former AEW Tag Team Champion appear. Ross took that opportunity to sidle up to Lee and say, clear as day right into the mic, “you a big motherfucker”.
Lee turned his back on Ross with a smile on his face and jokingly gestured to someone at ringside to cut the rapper’s mic. The announcers ignored the f-bomb Ross dropped, attempting to shift the focus back to what was supposed to be happening. As Strickland’s music still didn’t hit, you could hear in the announcer’s voices that they were desperate for the segment to progress as Ross continued to try and fill the silence.
Strickland eventually appeared, but his music never played. He provided a distraction on the ramp so his new sidekick Parker Bordeaux, formerly NXT’s Harland, could attack Lee from behind. Lee saw off Bordeaux pretty easily, but then an unknown second attacker was added to the mix. For those not familiar with baseball, that man was apparently former MLB player Granden Goetzman (thanks, Fightful).
The lack of music and Ross attempting to fill the silence made the whole segment feel pretty awkward. The special guest mediator managing to slip an f-bomb in there will have only made the whole thing an even bigger headache for Tony Khan too. Considering the number of times it has happened, and Warner Bros. apparent reactions every time it does, it’s pretty shocking AEW hasn’t started using a five-second delay so words like those can be silenced during live shows.
