10 Wrestlers Who Were Critical Of AEW
2. Vince McMahon
On two separate occasions, Vince McMahon has - through his own words or via a company press release spoken in his voice - presented All Elite Wrestling as a mix between the worst excesses of an ECW house show and an illegal fighting ring.
If he joined the hundreds of thousands of his ex-customers a week that watch AEW Dynamite, he'd see that he's not completely and utterly wrong, though the blood his acolytes have informed him about haven't yet reached the spurting-out-of-Mass Transit's-head levels enough for him to use "gory self-mutiliation" without it sounding tongue-in-cheek.
This follows his original sentiment about TNT not approving a "Blood and guts" product for weekly consumption, approximately six months before the network got set to host the first iteration of the match before the pandemic put everything on pause. AEW is many, many things, but McMahon's attempt to make this specific image stick are far more cynical than the other cutting remarks elsewhere on this list.