I was slammed with missives from the various platforms on Saturday night. Let me say this up front, what Page and Swerve did was so horrific and disgusting that it turned off super loyal AEW fans. I had been thinking about how to actually say what needed to be said in a way where I didn’t come off like Jim Cornette on steroids (and I mean that in the best possible way and know that Jim might not have had any issue with what happened because he thinks the blade has a place in the business in 2023 while I sure as hell do not, especially when the guy booking it is Tony Khan, who doesn’t understand what makes color work). He listens to the people who tell him how great he is, so why should I bother?īut what AP said did eat at me. AP told me as one of the only respected journalists (his words, not mine) that will call out things that are so, so wrong, while reporters close to Khan give him a pass, I had a duty.Īs he will tell you, I basically said, “What’s the point?” I have called out Tony Khan for a lot of things over the years and he never listens to me. Our own Anthony Pires has been on me to write a column about the blood porn that occurred during the Swerve Strickland-Hangman Page match at Full Gear, where they took blading and ingesting said blood to a new level of inhumanity.
