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Brody King was not kept off AEW Dynamite by WBD.

On February 12, there were rumors that top AEW Title contender Brody King was kept off of AEW Dynamite due to the "Fuck Ice" chants that happened the week prior. According to WBD themselves, that isn't the case.

Fightful Select's Sean Ross Sapp reached out to WBD for comment on the rumors, which company reps vehemently denied.

Their official statement:

"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"

When we also reached out to sources in AEW, who said that the first they had heard of the situation was when the rumors had emerged.

Comments

BazMan01

I'm not usually one to join the "anti" meltzer bandwagon so I'm just curious as to why he even reported this?

Jose Balderas

I’m sure WBD also loved the media exposure from the chants. But it definitely was a fumble to not have him appear on a “hometown” episode. Hopefully he has a role at Revolution.

Kieran Buxton

Thanks for clarifying this Sean. The whole thing never made sense. If they wanted the chants to stop then the worst thing could do is take Brody off the air as would only increase them tenfold.

Matt Castleberry

I've always had respect for Meltzer, as he is arguably the best wrestling historian outside of Jim Cornette, but his news reporting lately has been "take it with a grain of salt" levels bad.

Atomic Steve Anctil

MJF wasn’t on Dynamite either. Must have been “WBD keeping him off the air”. Just nonsense.

Cactus Clothesline

Thanks for clarifying this so quickly. Odd reporting by Dave to say the least.

SugarBearJonez

if i don't see a fightful post i don't believe a rumor

Matt Hennessy

Peope have to stop listening to Dave guys wrong more than he’s right. Cheers as always Fightful is the best in the reporting game

Raymond Slover

I saw that rumor was credited to Cornette.

Josh Collier

It’s weird as hell to not have your main eventer on your go home show. Sure, MJF has been doing press, but they really left Brody sitting in catering a week before his biggest match yet.

Raymond Slover

I think that just led more fuel to the rumor

SugarBearJonez

fumble? that's a long ass flight man. there's no reason to have him on Wednesday.

fightful

Brother this is a TV show, not a PPV. What

Matt Rain

Sean do we know if Brody went to Australia already with other talent to start doing some press there? I had just assumed that’s why he wasn’t on the show

John Thee Punisher

If he's wrong more often than not please give me 10 examples if this as your source. Hell, just give us 5.

patchrick

I think sometimes Meltzer tends to speculate without qualifying it that way and doesn’t consider how things coming from him are interpreted. My immediate reaction was “well they better get over it if that’s true because Grand Slam isn’t a ppv” so the statement acknowledging that makes me feel like a smart boy. OTOH I can understand why they’d want to publicly deny it if it was true, but Dave’s comments last week about how the chant “wasn’t that loud” kinda tips his hand as far as his opinion on the matter in general so without actual evidence it just feels irresponsible for him to say it because he has to know how quickly that would be aggregated

Matt Hennessy

I don’t have sources I’m not a reporter but so often with Dave he either credit for other people’s work or he will say something that’s debunked within a few weeks by another outlet. A few recent examples. I can think of he claimed WWE didn’t view Sami as a top guy in 2023 & that the women would headlining night one of WrestleMania over the tag title match. Was debunked by Fightful & WWE sources stated they did view Sami as a top guy & Sami later on admitted he was told in March that he’d be headlining night one around the time Dave dropped his report. Dude saw a 2014 clip of Rock & Triple H & said it was a planned WrestleMania 40 match. Dude claimed AI was being used to write storylines which turned out to be untrue. Claimed Seth did a rah rah speech a few years back which other outlets & Seth himself debunked. Guy made comments about Charlotte & Cassie Lee appearances claiming is was a mandate to look a certain way when it turned out not to be true. I don’t hate Dave & he use to be good at his job once upon a time. But honestly people try to put him on a pedestal or make excuses for him when the last few years he’s been wrong more than he’s been right the fact WBD had to give Fightful a statement saying we didn’t pull Brody King tells you what you need to know. I respect the work of certain outlets like Fightful PWINSIDER & WrestleVotes.

RP

WBD is waiting for him to apologize first before they get him removed.

RileyLikesWrestling

So glad you clarified this. I saw a few stupid Facebook "news" pages posting it 🤣

Lynchman

I am guessing both MJF and King headed to Australia a bit early.