"It wasn't cleared by AEW's PR Team" As if the AEW PR Team isn't nightmarish enough whenever they tweet sh*t on Twitter.

I could totally see Tony Khan yelling at MJF like he was Tommy Wiseau in “The Room”: “Everybody betray me! I’m fed up with this company! You’re a chicken! Oh hi Sammy! How’s your sex life?!”

"HMIC...Head Mark in Charge" Holy hell I lost it there haha...Jim's love for MJF pissing off Tony is hilarious...

Tony realizing he has to be a businessman and not everyone's friend. If you can't, hire a legit booker and start delegating power. Otherwise grow a spine.

Cornette makes great points about what all it takes to run things behind the scenes. Sometimes, fans watch a bunch of shoot interviews and think the entire process is easy. Dealing with people is never easy. Especially, in a highly pressurized environment like wrestling.

It's pretty simple to me: 1. MJF is presented as a top guy 2. He consistently gets some of the biggest crowd reactions when he's in the arena 3. When he's on I can't take my eyes off the screen. MJF is worth all the money WWE's probably offering him, and Tony needs someone as young and talented as him. If he let Maxwell go and keeps people like those dark order guys, he's just insane.

“The physiques of lepers” is a line that is far funnier than it should be

I can't imagine Tony Khan having a yelling match with anyone.

The fact MJF is making us believe everything is amazing

Bet Bucks cried to TK about the Video game comment

*How many cons could Tony Khan con, if Tony Khan could con cons?!*

Ariel Helwani is a well known journalist, who would provide far more exposure than any wrestling journalist. Khan should be happy MJF got that interview and everything MJF said dropped with irony and means nothing.

Cornette makes a good point, it is highly likely that Tony is starting to realize that he has signed to many people for too much.

MJF wants that Wrestlemania instant global recognition

Kurt Angle's contract another good example. Turned down 500k a year for 10 years in 1996. Signed a 50k a year developmental a couple of years later, but cleared 1mil his first year thanks to bonuses.

Well this is one thing that happens when you overpay everybody from the beginning. The people with actual value want to see themselves more in line with the bigger stars that you already paid for

Tony Khan would probably have a formula for his wrestlers whenever they are interviewed: -Praise AEW and Tony Khan -Shit on WWE and Vince McMahon

Tony hasn't thought further than the initial hype surrounding AEW. Most of the guys they signed in the first few months would probably have signed for any amount of $, they just wanted to spot on TV. Now you have the guys like MJF that are shifting the numbers, they naturally want a better deal as they are much more valuable to the brand. Tony needs to shift from being everyone's friend to doing real business. The honeymoon is over, time to get serious.

Tony has no freaking idea what he's doing what so ever. He needs to step back and let someone like Regal run the company

Booker of the year... 🤣

MJF saying something about going to the WWE was finally the breaking point for Tony Mark. "No I'm gonna lose another toy!".

H.M.I.C = Head Mark In Charge 😂🤣

Vince is laughing at khan 🤣 ppl talk shit about the old man but he knows what he's doing ..

I can see tony khan yelling with tears in his eyes like a lil toddler

Tony is getting to that stage where his ego and delusions of grandeur is gonna end up pushing away the talent he needs to keep the company going. WWE would love nothing more than to poach more AEW guys especially if they are under 30. Tony is planting the seeds for a mighty downfall and he won’t get it until its too late or someone reins him in.

Here it goes This is where the fun begins . the part of the business Tony’s not gonna be able to mark his way out of lol

"I told you he was gonna piss the marks off!" Gold.

It’s ok, Uncle Dave says everything is totally ok and cool with AEW. It’s just like when he would always say the EVPs all get along. Dave is completely believable quashing any whispers of issues in AEW

Tony Khan should give MJF everything he wants because he is one of the few things that makes Dynamite worth watching.

A heel acting like a heel? Just like the Caster rap what do they expect. They get heat and publicity then moan about it

Brian Last’s transition to “Paint Your Life” is perfect.

He grew up watching the WWE, money aside, he wants to go there, it's simple, drink it in neck beards

Jim is by far the best and most realistic guy talking about wrestling. The pay raises Nash fostered in WCW were not good for the business or the fans. It was good for old workers with name value to always outearn and spot hold forever.

Allegedly Malakai is getting two million a year. If that is true, Tony set a precedent for contracts that might make people ask for more money.

Tony Khan is upset that his wrestling company is not doing well like his Smackdown vs Raw GM mode.

Thank you Jim cornette for the negotiation insight! Edit: and the masterclass in promos at the end! 💡

If I’m Tony, I’d tell MJF to keep doing what he’s doing and in exchange for getting the creative freedom to keep “shoot interviewing”, they turn it into a money character where MJF is AEW’s Stone Cold.

Tk may not need Cody but he definitely can't lose MJF that would be a massive blow to AEW

The Indy guys who started AEW are pissed off that the former WWE guys are coming and making more money than them. It's pretty obvious and is common sense. I have no idea why people like Metlzer and Alvarez are pretending everything is fine in AEW and this isn't an issue, Of course it is.

The transitions to ads are easily the best part of these videos.

AEW PR Team is young bucks and Kenny Omega

This happens often in sports league. Renew the contract during a “contract year” before the player hits free agency where they can be persuaded by bigger offers. Many players give the team a “home town discount” and just don’t want to go through the hassle or risk injury.

You know Vince is doing something right if he is able to keep The Rock, Stone Cold, The Undertaker, John Cena loyal to the WWE.

This just popped up after watching another video I had watched and re-listening to it I wonder if that interview wasn’t the start of the work that had lead to him being off tv now.

Brian’s right. The Padres Baseball team rewarded their young star player Fernando Tatis from making 500k to a 300 million mega contract to make sure he goes nowhere

I wonder if Tony would bury MJF through booking, oh wait Jericho tried to but failed. The kid is unburieable. Hope he makes lot of money

Tony is probably mad because he didn’t criticize WWE and actually said they were doing a good job. We all know Tony Kahn has to have his employees constantly bash WWE. Just look at how many times WWE gets bashed each episode.

Head Mark in Charge lmao I would pay top dollar for a shirt that says HMIC with a picture of a seal peering through a block of ice or maybe Rick Moranis with extra curly hair.

Lmao when he bashes Pockets at 17:30. He can’t help himself, when Marko stunt and jelly Nutella left, he needs a new whipping boy and pockets just graduated.

MJF sticking to his character reminds me of Brian Pillman during his “loose canon” days

From a company standpoint I can understand why a national promotion would want to have a wrestler run an appearance by them just to make sure they are prepared for any backlash/reaction to it that may come their way. If I were the booker/promoter, I would give MJF carte blanche to say whatever the hell he wanted to say, as long as he was being himself. Controversy creates cash, and I think people are going to be keeping an eye on MJF and as a result, AEW, for the next year plus until that contract runs out.

Its ironic because I am in the exact same situation beat by beat with my company in my line of work. This was the sign i needed to pull the trigger on a raise request.

Cornette with great points once again. 👍🏿👍🏿

I'll never stop laughing at "Dwarf Dong Sucker" 🤣

Tony has pushed himself soo thin he is starting to unravel.😖

Jim’s right. A lot of AEW wrestlers look like backyard wrestling marks

There's a rumor that Cody Rhodes is showing up at the super show tomorrow as a April fools joke to stick it to Vince.

Tony overpaid all the WWE cast offs and overpaid Punk Because he thought they would actually move the needle in the ratings for an extended period of time. The problem is there is simply no room It's in the industry for a number 2 to ever get his close to the number one as it was in the nineties. There simply is not enough wrestling fans anymore. They watch they watch reality TV now. Think about it reality TV today is what wrestling was in the eighties and nineties. The moment reality TV Hit wrestling fan numbers have been on a steady decline And has plateau'd at about 1 to 2 million people. People used to think wrestling was real, Or so in the eighties than the nineties, But instead of watching wrestling for They're scripted shows they think are not scripted they now watch reality shows for their shows they think are not scripted but are. There will never be another number 2 like WCW was or WWF was or when wcw was number one. Is everything is just too fragmented now.

i think MJF to WWE is 99.9%. mark my words. it’s his childhood dream

Yes. There is AEW PR. Khan was telling CM Punk who he should talk to and who to avoid. No surprise to me.

MJF is a star beyond his years, he should be paid as so

I read that Malakai Black is on $2 million ayear, which got me thinking. There's going to come a point where ex-WWE people like PAC, Malakai, FTR, Ruby, Rusev and Andrade's contracts are going to expire. By then their stock and bargaining power is going to be lesser than it was when WWE released them. What's going to happen then? Is Tony going to want to continue pay Malakai Black two million a year to appear on Dark? There isn't a single ex-WWE AEW roster member that's in a better position than they were in WWE. For all the talk of AEW "giving people a place to perform", I feel like AEW's existance has harmed wrestling as a whole, indie wrestling was far better in 2017 than it is now (AEW killed RoH) and imagine being a lapsed fan of the Attitude Era (a real one, not a pretend one on Reddit) and hearing the buzz about this new company that's "real prowrestling", getting excited and then actually seeing this big budget trampoline fed bullshit. One more thing; I bet Tony cried. He seems like the type to cry.

Tony's unhappy that Punk spoke to someone outside the tiny AEW fan base.

I wish they brought Alex Hamerstone and Rich Holiday to reunite with MJF. They were money in MLW.

When MJF was in MLW that was the only wrestling I watched for example

I'd let Jericho go and for the money I save offset that to keep MJF, let some contracts expire and shrink the roster a bit so the talent pool can stop being diluted and the finance pool can be stronger.

MJF rocks way too hard, never change sir!

What we all been waiting for

Cornettes laugh at 0:11 cracks me up!!

The problem AEW has is that it’s NOT WWE and once upon a time everyone on the AEW roster was a kid with a dream to be in the WWE and wrestle at Wrestlemania, AEW has none of that lore or Mania. That alone is a bargaining chip.

😂 when I heard PR TEAM

Lol tony complaining about booking...🤣🤣🤣🤣

Bless Jim's heart he always cares about the guys.

It's pretty obvious when the only AEW headline you ever see is who they're signing next .

why can't Brian Last speak without interrupting his sentence to make other points before going back to finish his original point?

Lmao to be honest how many media outlets are clamoring to do interviews with aew talent???

Smartest Wrestling mind that ever was. Corny can front to back you with information from sun up to sundown and still have gas left in the tank!

"head mark in charge" HAHAHAHA 😂

Tony Khan problem was he didn't had a spine to beging with, Vince has a bunch experience he already walk a lot miles in the wrestling business, all those problem we seeing Vince already had them, that's why he doesn't give too much power to the wrestler cause shit like this would come up. Tony needs to talk to MJF and give him a new contract and just clean the house with the wrestlers he doesn't need that way he keep guys like MJF. Marco Stunt, Serpetico, Danhausen, even Orange Casisdy needs to leave, and keep guys with little more promise but not over paid them cause they're still green.

Been waiting for this!

As someone fairly new to AEW, I cannot get over how HUGE their roster appears to be. Other than a handful of talent right, the rest of the roster you might get to see once every three to four weeks, if you're lucky. Even with four shows, I don't understand how they keep most of the mid-carders happy.

Calling it like I see it, All Elite should be called TNAEWCW! At least with Impact Wrestling, their bouncing back and producing relatively good TV, despite, and like others, still stuck in McMahon's version of wrestling.

If someone on the roster was pissed and complained to Tony to force the issue with MJF, it has to be Kenny/the Bucks. MJF isn't part of their circle and MJF is a MAJOR threat to Kenny's status as "top guy". And if the rumors that Kenny may be trying for a May return without getting all of his surgeries, it indicates that the remaining "Elites" are TERRIFIED that their days are numbered and Kenny is coming back still hurt/injured to preserve their behind the scenes power.

Either MJF is gonna make AEW pay him a boatload of money to stay or he's gonna have Prichard, Heyman, Cody, whoever in WWE that's a fan of him pester Vince to sign him to big bucks lol.

I don't think Cody leaving is about the money. What Paul Heyman said is probably more on the money. The direction of the company isn't what he originally envisioned or moving towards, it would be no surprise if he felt disillusioned.

Everything is fine now $12.99

*Cut the entire Dark Order. Only two I would keep are -1 and 10 haha*

Notice The Bucks are never on TV anymore. Not involved in any feuds. Omega disappeared, Cody gone. I don’t think there will be any EVP’s soon.

"MJF is too dam good to lose to WWE.....I'd pay him a small fortune to stay....nuff said!"

I just don't see what all the hype is behind CM Punk or guys like mjf they don't have a presence about them just because it's 2022 and they can talk the used every single Cheap Trick that they can think of use all the cheap heat and everything that they can to get those two guys over but I just don't see it I don't see what the big deal is I don't see what the hype is back then you had guys like Batista of Scott Steiner that could draw houses just with their presence alone they didn't have to talk they could draw houses just with their presence alone that's what it was like back then those guys were the stars right now it's just like they're trying to get over these guys with every single trick in the book I guess it will work to some extent but in the long-term it's just going to fail

MJF NEEDS TO GO TO WWE TO BECOME A SUPER MEGA STAR

I'd fire 10 people to keep 1 MJF. They have a very trimmable roster, make the man happy. Give him what he wants to stick around. Get rid of people who will never show an ounce of the value MJF has and pad his paycheck.

Mjf knows the absolute pinnacle of wrestling is wrestlemania and aew isn't big enough.

I said 6 months ago.... I can't wait for the interviews to begin so we hear about all the shlt that goes on behind the scenes, and the cracks are appearing..... 😏

Yes Uncle Jim; Tony CON is definitely the HMIC (Head Mark in Charge). Meltzer is the CMO (Chief Mark Officer).

It would be hysterical to see this happen, all the aew marks welcoming the wwe wrestlers even though originally aew didn't want to be another wwe now some are leaving thats not ok and are salty lol.

Either this entire thing is a shoot with Tony involved trying to play the bad guy boss fighting with his big shot talent or Tony is freaking out about more talent leaving.

Who would have thought that a phrase including "it's shit, he's shit" would wind up being the nicest thing Corny has said about our dog Pockets.

I bet its the Bucks and Fingerbang crying to Tony because MJF are outworking all of them. Even after having gone through a program with Jerico the heat killer.

Paul Heyman had a very similar interview time frame wise. 🤔