10 Biggest Frauds In Wrestling Right Now
7. The AEW Media Scrum
Either side of Double Or Nothing, the hottest story around All Elite Wrestling was miraculously not the crowning of CM Punk as new AEW Heavyweight Champion, the long-awaited victory for transcendent star-in-waiting Wardlow, nor even the Grand Theft Auto-adjacent meme of a moment featuring Eddie Kingston hitting the ring with a gas can.
The news cycle revolved entirely around the potential real life status of MJF following a meet-and-greet walkout two days before the pay-per-view and stories of a booked-and-eventually-abandoned plane ticket out of Las Vegas before he was set to put over his aforementioned former charge in the hottest match on the show.
Understandable, then, that the post-Double Or Nothing media scrum went close to three hours. Less so when Tony Khan himself confirmed that he wouldn't be speaking about the MJF situation whatsoever and the conversation devolved into something resembling a sweet but ultimately futile mid-2000s forum meet-up.
This is not to throw stones at those in the room not getting the good answers or even getting a f*cking word in to ask the good questions. Your writer has been in one of those scrums - Khan deviates from his deviations, and wrestling media still getting any look-in after decades of alienation from WWE makes asking the "wrong" question a risk. But your writer isn't a journalist and lots of others in there claim to be. Until both sides of the table take the whole thing a lot more seriously, these will only scan as a backslapping exercise over something potentially productive.