My Top 5 Times AEW Went To Far.

    Intro.

Ok, just for context this is being written on a friday Morning at 9.am, so it's being written 24 hours after I watched Moxley and his moment of dangerous accupuncture, and I've spent a bit of time scowering through X to get a solid view of opinions, and this got me thinking. Just how many times has AEW Over stepped the mark?

5 Uummmm Pizza.

I have no words for this. Cast your mind back to the summer of 2021, and MJF, and. Chris Jericho were in a best of five rivalry, and if chris can get past 5 opponents of Max's choosing then he would get a match against him at All Out 2021. This led to the 28th of July edition of AEW Dynamite, when Chris faced off against Nick Gage. The Match would include a spot that showed Nick cutting Chris's head open, with a Pizza Cutter, just as they went to the picture and picture break, and which company was first to have thier ad displayed on TV, none other than Dominos, and lets just put it this way, they weren't pleased at all, stating they were now weighing up their options for the future, as to whether they would advertise on all AEW broadcasts.

4 UK Cuts.

I'm not the biggest fan of how ITV pressent AEW here in the UK, it always seems to feel like an after thought, and in some places has been cut. This was the case of the shows first ever broadcast. The show aired at 11.05pm on friday the 6th of October, and was shown fully uncut, but on the Sunday the 8th of October repeat, that aired at 8.50am. The show had been heavily edited, but it still got loads of complaints to Ofcom, stating that it was way to violent for the watershed. The broadcaster received a warning from the regulator.

3 Hiring Ric Flair.

This caused a massive stur back in October of 2023. Two years before this Accusations surrounding Ric, were made public after an episode of Darkside Of The Ring was centred around accounts of sexual assault caused by the veteran. Yes it was a good idea to use him for Stings retirement, but not at this cost.

2. Concussions.

As the science surrounding CTE is forever evloving. AEW's rough and tumble exterior has been called into question. Concussions have played a large part in this. Case and point. All In 2020 Matt Hardy vs Sammy Guervara. Hardy got sphered off a ladder and landed awkwardly through a table onto a naked concrete floor. Aubrey Edwards was told to allow the Match to continue. This was an extremely bad call, and common sense needed to prevail.

1. Wembley Footage.

This was stupid. It was petty, and damn right dumb. And this all started thanks to Cm Punk going on the Ariel Helwani podcast. AEW aired the footage that Got Cm Punk fired. I will never understand why Tony Khan gave this the ok.