To say that Pentagon and Fenix had career years in 2018 would be an understatement.  Both men are at the top of the Lucha Underground roster, assuming another season happens.  They won tag gold in MLW and IMPACT Wrestling and the duo headlined and challenged for the IMPACT World Championship for a bulk of 2018, with Pentagon securing a memorable, albeit brief run with the belt.

Yet, Cody Rhodes and AEW offered them a deal that the duo apparently accepted.  According to PWInsider, Dave Meltzer and others the deal is open-ended, meaning they aren’t exclusive, but Chris Jericho himself, in a now deleted tweet, claimed the duo were exclusive to AEW.

This poses a problem, as IMPACT just put the tag team belts on them.  Their run with the MLW belts came to a close this past weekend as the The Hart Foundation’s Davey Boy Jr. and Teddy Hart won the belts in an entertaining affair.  Some outlets have claimed this was the duo’s end with the promotion, yet Court Bauer himself claimed the pair is signed through 2019.

So this opens up a serious question; what is their status?  Are they exclusive, as Jericho claimed?  Or is this just another promotion for them to work with, while working elsewhere too?  Cody doesn’t strike me as the type who’d play bad pool with other promotions, so any deal has to be on the up and up, including allowing the pair to finish dates, or continue taking them.

So it seems likely that the pair have no intentions of being paired down anytime soon.  Yet, that brings up Chris Jericho.  Twice now he’s tweeted things that have brought heat on the upstart promotion.  He spent time dragging and insulting wrestlers on a late night-drunk-tweeting spree, and now he’s out here making claims he’s not only not suitable to be making, but then deleting when he does.  Does Jericho have a problem we need to look into?

In Other News...

MLW announced a third live special, Intimidation Games for March 2nd, which is another Saturday.  The event is set for Cicero Stadium in Cicero, Illinois and will air live on BeIN Sports.  SuperFight II is also penciled in for February 1st, 2020.  The event will become an annual pre-SuperBowl show for MLW.

Fightful is reporting that The Hart Foundation members of Bret Hart, Jim Neidhart and Jimmy Hart are going into the WWE Hall of Fame this year, months after Neidhart’s passing.  No word on Davey Boy Smith Sr. being involved in this, nor any mention of Owen Hart, who has long been kept out of the HOF by his widow, on the grounds that she believes the WWE only wants to profit off of his memory.

Quick Hits – Jay Lethal set the all-time record for total-days-held for the ROH World Championship, tying Samoa Joe’s 645, and at midnight will be at 646, securing his place.  Kyle O’Reily holds the distinction of the shortest total and single reigns at 33 days.  The NWA launched a new YouTube series featuring Willie Mack called One Nation.  Japanese legend The Great Sasuke will take a year long hiatus from wrestling when he hits 50 to allow his body to heal.  No mention of retirement was brought up.