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NEWS - Ex-AEW Name SHOOTS On Being Fired! WWE Goes UFC! The Problem With AEW/New Japan?!

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🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Today's wrestling news, including...


Ex-AEW Name SHOOTS On Being Fired!

WWE Goes UFC!

MJF Spits Fire!

The Problem With AEW/New Japan?!


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0:00.0

Coming up on today's wrestling news, an ex-AW employee shoots on the company for mistreatment.

0:05.9

Because the UFC octagon be planned for an XT battleground?

0:08.8

MJF calls himself one of the biggest stores in the history of this effing business.

0:13.0

And a new Japan talent opens up about the business relationship with A. E. W.

0:17.0

Man and World War, and Michael Hamflitz.

0:19.0

And this is the news.

0:21.0

Let's dive straight into it then.

0:22.0

Yes. With Kevin Kelly straight into it then. Yes.

0:23.4

With Kevin Kelly, former AEW commentator, of course, unceremoniously fired a while back and he's opened up,

0:31.0

well as an experience with the company, what happened from his perspective, and he's not held back.

0:36.3

Basically, obviously he joined AEW as a former New Japan announcer back in June of 2003.

0:42.2

He was the commentator on Collision, the first episode of

0:45.1

Collision on Saturday night alongside Nigel McGuinness. And then on March 2nd of 2024 he went on social

0:50.8

media and accused Ring of Honor announcer Ian Rick Aboni of libel and career sabotage.

0:55.0

Six days later, it was announced that he had been fired

0:58.0

and Tony Schiavani was going to be taken over on his role.

1:00.6

So, first of all the Ian Rickaboni stuff he was appearing at this K&S

1:04.4

Wrestle fest Kevin Kelly that is and he had this to say on the Rickaboni stuff

1:09.8

he said he recommended me so I go away they this, he's doing commentary on the G1,

1:14.8

I've gone for five weeks, I come back and it's like, Ian's hammered me on discord on this

1:19.3

new Japan message board about all, I did all these different things to him over the years which I never knew I had no clue and then to top it all off

1:26.2

He accuses me of being some Q-Anon conspiracy theorist for supporting movie that was against child trafficking

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