Speaker-to-Animals

How many warnings do they need? MJF has mocked a disabled fan, ruined someone's drawing, thrown a fan's phone, asked if it was "too late to abort" a young girl, spat in someone's coffee, thrown someone's hat, gave a kid the finger, and now stole someone's drink and threw it on a child. Most of these were picked up by the wrestling media so it isn't like MJF and AEW don't know how this stuff is perceived even if there's a vocal group that defends anything he does as being a "good heel". I guess him usually targetting children and the infirm whilst knowing most adult fans are marks these days lowers the risk of him being punched out, plus there's the whole "fan touching a wrestler means the fan can be mercilessly beaten by security and half the roster" thing. It's approaching "middle of Fifth Avenue..." territory with some people. (I would have included him motor boating that one fan but I guess it's consensual even if it's a risky thing to do these days) The old "I was merely pretending to be retarded" excuse hasn't cut it for over a decade now. What MJF does is he involves people - often minors - from outside the performance and makes them part of it in a derogatory manner without their consent. This isn't jawing back at a gobby fan nor is it a pantomime where the story is self contained and the villain vanquished. If you want a comparison it's like those trashy YouTube prank channels everyone abhors, except they're almost always set-ups because they'd get sued. So really it's more like those even dimmer morons that try to be prank channels but are too lazy to set it up properly.

If anyone is banking on Khan getting help booking then they might be in for disappointment. This snippet kind of got lost in (and was caused by?) the Punk shenanigans:

If that's true then Punk might have tried one of the most foolhardy and ill-executed power plays in recent wrestling history. Might just be Khan being a historically terrible leader though. Like coming back and beating some 20-odd year olds, taking the title off a home grown star over a decade his junior, then agreeing to win the title again knowing he was going to pull a political move with a high likelihood of being suspended, and all this only after waiting to see if the upstart company he did this all in would survive for a few years? What is the reported reason Punk lost the belt at Hell in a Cell 2009?

Has anyone brought up the likelihood AEW contracts, and almost certainly Punk's, have non-disparagement clauses in them and ripping into management in public will generally result in a fairly prompt meeting with company officials given Punk's history? That would explain the EVPs and legal being involved, the talent relations joining in is also expected as Punk verbally attacked AEW contracted talent. In almost any other job if a worker criticised the company in front of customers and the media, ran off and hid in a closet and then punched executives that came to discuss the matter with him that employee would be long gone with few people opting to nail their colours to his mast. I'm not sure why this is different other than The Elite are polarising and wrestling is held to an abysmally low standard. I say that as someone that dislikes The Elite but the story of this situation, as we know it right now, is in their favour. The defences that hinge on Punk feeling threatened (that he'd be Brody'd?) are nonsensical as out of the talent involved it is Punk that has a history of backstage fighting and punching (innocent) fans. I cannot recall an instance where Omega or the Bucks or Daniels or the others in the "mob" have such incidents and certainly none of them have a reputation that would make someone fear for their safety backstage.