AEW has been receiving its justifiable share of criticism for what has occurred to 2 of its stars, Rey Fenix and Willie Mack. Fenix has made it publicly clear that he’s not proud of the very fact that he’s being compelled to remain in AEW, and has taken his frustrations to social media in current weeks. As for Mack, he was reportedly pulled from upcoming GCW occasions as a result of feedback that GCW star Effy made about AEW President Tony Khan’s father. With all that in thoughts, Dave Meltzer assessed each conditions on “Wrestling Observer Radio,” beginning with Fenix.
“With AEW, in the event you get damage in AEW, like principally they–you are purported to get a health care provider your self. They’re going to pay for all the pieces, however you are purported to get the physician…” Meltzer stated, mentioning that WWE and NJPW units up the physician appointments for its wrestlers. “I do not know the entire story as a result of he is simply carried out some tweets about simply being sad, inhumane therapy. I feel that is what it’s, he’ll must elaborate additional.”
Meltzer went on to elucidate that he knew of many wrestlers who at one time limit after they have been sad with WWE extending their contracts, they’d try to get themselves fired in a wide range of alternative ways. None of those apparently labored, however it’s the same state of affairs with Fenix as Meltzer was advised he is acquired a very long time left on his deal. “One among his buddies advised me like a yr so far as damage time that they’ve tacked on, and clearly he needs to go to WWE, and he cannot go. Tony Khan is in a wrestling conflict with WWE, he is not going to do them any favors, and sadly Fenix is caught within the crossfire.”
Willie Mack’s Scenario is a Little Extra Difficult
Meltzer then moved on to the state of affairs concerning Willie Mack, which was initially seen as AEW pulling one other considered one of their stars off of a GCW occasion in the identical means they did with Ricky Starks. Nevertheless, Meltzer famous that this example has two sides which are wildly totally different to 1 one other.
“That is the GCW aspect of it. Willie Mack referred to as them up for Saturday, it is a late deal and stated he was pulled from the present by AEW over the Effy state of affairs. Brett Lauderdale [GCW owner], actually upset, calls up Sonjay Dutt at AEW and goes ‘is that this true?’ and Sonjay says ‘it is completely not true.'” This reportedly led Mack to be contacted once more, to which he reportedly stated that he wasn’t really pulled from the present, however that Christopher Daniels had advised Mack that he should not go to the occasion.
So what was AEW’s aspect of the story? “They’re saying that nothing like that occurred, and that Willie Mack referred to as them and requested them if it will be an issue to go, they usually stated ‘you possibly can go,’ however perhaps he took it the flawed means. However AEW was very, very clear.” Meltzer rounded off by saying that it appears as if the choice to not carry out for GCW was made by Mack himself, however it’s unclear as to how deep the issues between AEW and GCW run, particularly contemplating long-time GCW staple Matt Cardona will likely be primary eventing the ROH Ultimate Battle pay-per-view in opposition to Chris Jericho for the ROH World Championship on December 20.
Please credit score “Wrestling Observer Radio” and provides a H/T to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.
