8 Things You Didn't Know Were Banned In AEW
6. Conducting An Interview Without Permission
AEW is a company that exists to make good wrestling by people who want to see good wrestling, and if that reads as naive, they could have made a lot of dough by signing Bray Wyatt, but elected not to.
Still, let's not be daft: they want to actually make some money and generally appear to be an organised outfit with its own house in order. If they appeared to be a shambles, the perception of the company - and its ability to generate trust, viewership and money - would be less than ideal.
An AEW talent must clear any interview request with their employer for very boring and strict reasons that have everything to do with Tony Khan not wanting certain outlets asking something called "questions" for which something called "answers" are required.
It's strange, because wrestlers post revelations on Twitter when they volunteer the information without even being asked any questions. Half the roster either stream or vlog, too, and can't help but, at the very least, talk around certain colleagues they think are worse than sh*t. It seems pointless to prohibit talents from giving interviews in a context that might generate publicity, but MJF took an interview with Ariel Helwani, and Khan was not happy. And this, it should be noted, was before Ariel buried WWE days after providing a voiceover for WWE.
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