Apparent Frustration In AEW Over Lack Of Production Meetings

On this past week’s episode of AEW Dynamite, a rather awkward segment took place. Following a singles match between Kris Statlander and Megan Bayne, a post-match attack took place that saw new allies Bayne and Penelope Ford beat down the babyface. This prompted Thunder Rosa to run out with a steel chair to save Statlander… but the segment didn’t seem to go to plan. 

When Rosa ran into the ring, the heels didn’t run away, and instead just stood there. Rosa motioned that she was going to hit them with the chair, though there was no reaction to this either. Ford would then play a game of tug-of-war over the chair, which she lost, before the heels eventually strolled away. The whole thing looked awkward with no one sure of what to do in the moment. On the Bryan & Vinny Show on F4WOnline, Bryan Alvarez spoke on the messy segment, and revealed that many of those in AEW were frustrated at the lack of production meetings. 

“The bigger story here than this was just such a f-ing disaster is not a week goes by, not one week goes by where I don’t hear from somebody in AEW saying, ‘Why the f- don’t we have production meetings? We need production meetings. Things happen on every show where if we had a production meeting, they wouldn’t happen.’ But Tony [Khan] refuses to do production meetings, and here we are. This is another one. What in the f- happened here? Nobody knows. I didn’t get a single good explanation for it. It was just everybody was on a different page, and you made the baby face look like an absolute idiot, and away we go.”

Based on these comments, it seems as though Tony Khan’s unwillingness to do production meetings in AEW has been a jarring element for some time. 

H/T WrestlingNews.Co

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