Warner Bros. Discovery Denies Blocking Brody King From AEW Dynamite

Warner Bros. Discovery have denied having any involvement with Brody King's All Elite Wrestling schedule.

WBD wrote: "Warner Bros. Discovery did not have any involvement in Brody King's upcoming AEW schedule. Any speculation to the contrary is categorically false. Brody is scheduled to appear during the next AEW event, which will air this Saturday on TNT and HBO Max."

In addition to WBD's outright denial of being involved with King's schedule, Fightful Select's Sean Ross Sapp noted on X/Twitter that AEW have called the rumours "totally untrue." Sources of Fightful's within AEW also noted the first they heard of the situation was when the rumours emerged.

This all comes after a report from Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio claimed that WBD made the call to not have Brody King on the February 11 episode of AEW Dynamite due to the prospect of further "F*ck ICE" chants. According to the report, Warner Bros. wanted to avoid upsetting Donald Trump due to the pending acquisition of WBD by Netflix.

Meltzer said: "The deal is that they didn't want the fans in the arena to be chanting that. If Brody came out, there was that risk…when he comes back, it will happen again. I don't know how they're going to handle it. This is again not a Tony call. This is from above. You know what it is, nobody wants to get on Trump's bad side. If it wasn't for that, nobody would care, it's just a chant, but unfortunately they've [WBD] got a company they're trying to sell and get regulatory approval from a guy who is gonna take that stuff personal. That's just how it is. No Brody King on the show when he absolutely, of course - of course Brody King and MJF should have had a segment on the show."

Meltzer has since tweeted: "Those at AEW have said nobody from WBD asked them not to use Brody King on last night's show and this was just how it was booked to only use him in a video package. We had heard over the weekend that there were concerns about how much pub the situation had gotten from the WBD side, but those at AEW said that they were not told not to put him on the show. So this corrects the report from last night. It had been a topic of discussion over the weekend."

There were chants of "F*ck ICE" prior to Brody King vs. MJF on the February 4 edition of Dynamite. The chants gained mainstream attention, and AEW were said to be happy about the attention which arose from the moment.

King was absent from the February 11 episode of Dynamite and his only involvement on the show was a video package to promote the AEW World Title match against MJF at Grand Slam Australia this coming Saturday.