10 Most Shocking AEW Controversies

10. Shawn Spears Smashes Cody Rhodes' Head In With A Chair

Hopping all the way back to the first-ever Fyter Fest in June 2019, Shawn Spears first real showing upon officially becoming All Elite earlier that month left much of the wrestling world wincing for all the wrong reasons.

Despite the team behind the eventually botched chair shot to Cody Rhodes' exposed head confessing to the weapon in question being "gimmicked" heading into the moment, a poorly timed shot would eventually lead to The American Nightmare boasting a gnarly cut on the back of his head shortly after.

And for all of Rhodes' best (yet still a bit questionable) intentions in wanting "to take chair shots to the head back for the boys", but doing so "safely", all his and the eventually branded Chairman's deeply disturbing chair c*ck-up proved was that this sort of idiotic piece of crowd-popping had no place in The Land of All Elite or wrestling as a whole's future.

As everyone, including the former AEW EVP, should no doubt know at this point, concussions are no joke. And all the gimmicked steel chairs in the world won't change the fact that the safest option will always be to keep those b*stard seats away from a wrestler's skull.