FTR Commentary on Criticism of Signing AEW With Former WWE Stars

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FTR has come to the defense of All Elite Wrestling and its chairman Tony Khan over promoting the signing of so many former WWE stars in recent months.

Former WWE wrestlers themselves Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler explained in an interview with TSN that the locker room needs a mix of young and old no matter where they’ve worked in the past.

Harwood: “There are a lot of fans, and this is beyond me, who are overwhelmed by this. They are upset to see a lot of former WWE talent (in AEW). They need to understand that AEW can’t just hire independent wrestlers, because if they only hire independent wrestlers for a TV product, it’s almost like a blind leading a blind. You have to have people who have experience wrestling on television because it’s a completely different beast than just professional wrestling. “

Wheeler: “The people we’ve signed on, they’re all signed for a reason – because they’re so good at what they do and they’re going to help everyone in the process,” Wheeler said. So the business improves by signing these people. And I hate when people call them “ex-WWE this” or “ex-WWE that” because yeah, we worked there.

“We’ve all worked there at some point, but that doesn’t make us their property or like we haven’t learned these things some time before. We’ve all learned these things through decades of hard work, decades of work, and effort to become good enough to find jobs with the best wrestling companies in the world and it just so happens that now there’s another huge one. , a large wrestling company that has not existed for more than 20 years.

“So now there are options and there are going to be people who are going to come and that’s how it’s going to be, but that doesn’t mean the company is going to be next anything. They are killing him right now. They sign the people who need to be signed and the fight is better because of that. “

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