10 Wrestlers Who Were Critical Of AEW
5. Big Swole
Big Swole's All Elite Wrestling exit was all relatively harmonious, until it wasn't.
Leaving the company in late 2021 following what was confirmed by both Swole and Tony Khan to be a mutual decision not to renew her contract, her departure suggested a more cordial future for exiting talent than wrestlers had been used to from other North American promotions.
All of that went to sh*t when she offered some thoughts on diversity within AEW. In excellent long form detail, she provided a series of constructive comments that p*ssed Tony Khan off enough to bat the remarks back on Twitter in horribly misadvised fashion that only made the situation much worse.
She followed up expressing her disappointment, but Khan's comments brought far more attention onto the conversation that he'd likely ever imagined would be the case. Not least because he thoughtlessly chose to bring her skill level into things while a far more important issue was atop the agenda.
It speaks to both sides that things have gone quiet since the turn-of-the-year scuffle, but how AEW addresses some valid complaints in the future will determine just what it was all worth.