Stokely Hathaway Reveals Why The Firm Turned Into A Comedy Faction

During a recent appearance on the “Talk is Jericho,” AEW star Stokely Hathaway commented on his storyline with The Firm and how it turned from a serious group into a comedy act.

While the group initially featured MJF and the Gunns, they wound up leaving and the direction of the faction changed. Stokely said,

“I guess I didn’t view it that way because I’ve been trying to get into the habit of looking at things from a positive perspective. Regardless of who was in that position, the idea was to go after the world champion. We still had that opportunity. It didn’t, obviously, turn out like the way that most of us wanted, but it was still an avenue to get things going. It was a tough few months to try and figure out ‘what is this group?’ because it wasn’t my idea, I didn’t come up with the concept. The only thing that I really had input in was the name. We were this super serious heel group, and I think you have to read the room, and I made the conscious decision to go, ‘Okay, this isn’t working, let’s go to the comedy route.’ Not full on comedy, but if you go back and watch, you can see where things started to change for us, and for the better.“

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