MJF has suggested WWE President Nick Khan is behind a report claiming AEW is struggling to secure its next television deal, calling it a deliberate competitive leak and saying it is news to everyone inside the company.
Speaking to Shakiel Mahjouri, MJF addressed the Wrestling Observer Newsletter report, which noted people at the highest levels of WWE have been telling others internally that AEW won’t land a deal with Paramount/Skydance and may struggle elsewhere.
“I do laugh — I think I saw — and again, it’s a business, right? So, it’s dog-eat-dog. So TKO, WWE, what have you, their job is to make themselves look great, and to make us look bad. So, there’s a leak, ‘AEW’s struggling to get a TV deal.’ That’s fcking news to me, bro. That’s news to me, that’s news to everybody on the roster. That’s damn sure news to Tony Khan. Because last time I checked, they’re fcking over the moon with us right now.”
He drew a direct comparison to corporate sabotage between rival consumer brands.
“I love Jolly Old Saint Nick, and I love the tricks he’s pulling out. I f*cking get it, it’s smart. But it doesn’t mean that we can’t use our brains. It’d be like if Coke out of the blue was like, hey, I don’t know if you guys knew about this but, Pepsi has ass water in it. Everybody would be like, where is that source coming from? It’s coming from Coke? Okay. I’m not gonna give much thought to this.”
AEW’s previous television deal represented a 2.3x increase over the deal before it, despite similar predictions of a flat or lower negotiation at the time.
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