10 Most Shocking AEW Controversies

Tony Khan may have found a way to take what was looking like one of the biggest sh*t-shows in AEW history and turn it into one of the hottest angles the promotion had at its disposal - before this list's final entry decided to pour freezing cold water over everything, of course - but MJF's no-showing of a Double or Nothing weekend Fan Fest definitely wasn't a part of the All Elite plan from the get-go.

Utterly pissing all over his long-awaited showdown with one-time bodyguard Wardlow at the PPV, whether MJF would even show up at all stole just about every headline heading into the Vegas show and likely provided Khan with a splitting headache.

Sure, by the time Maxwell decided to drop his own iteration of the pipebomb on the Dynamite that followed, there's every chance The Salt of the Earth was back on decent terms with his employer... or at the very least, happy to stick around until the bidding war of 2024.

But there's no questioning the fact that these sort of controversial line-blurring antics definitely pissed off a number of figures in the AEW locker room, with some even going as far as to class it as "a sloppy work that in the long run will benefit nobody”, according to Dave Meltzer in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.