AEW May Miss Out On Big Free Agent After Reports Of EVP Infighting Surfaces

It sounds like there's trouble brewing backstage in AEW and reports suggest it's a lot more than a couple of talents not seeing eye to eye. Recent rumblings note that some of the most important people in the company aren't even on speaking terms.

Several reports have surfaced recently suggesting things backstage in AEW are not good. Specifically, Wade Keller of PWTorch noted on a recent podcast that certain members of ‘The Elite’ are no longer talking to one another.

Keller notes, “There’s gonna be a book written someday by some of these EVPs or someone else closely observing and we’re gonna learn about a lot of dysfunction." He goes on to say that the very short honeymoon period in AEW is over. When Keller notes "there are certain key people who aren’t even talking to each other anymore,” one has to wonder what this means for their on-air product and company operations if AEW President Tony Khan can't get things back on track.

Keller went on to say that there's really no way AEW is going to keep all of this quiet. It's certainly not ideal if issues between The Young Bucks and Cody Rhodes and Kenny Omega become public, but that's how upset people are. While we don't know specifically what's causing the rift, “I think we’re gonna find that out,” Keller said.

AEW Could Miss Out On Big Star

Because of all of this friction, Jason Powell of ProWrestling.net reports a major free agent has already looked at AEW and is hesitant about going there. Not interested in joining a promotion that has reported infighting, this "difference maker" could elect not to sign.

It was not mentioned who the big free agent is.

Brian Last of the Jim Cornette Experience podcast also suggested emails between Cody, Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks only hammer home the problems internally and that it's not a coincidence that Cody has been absent from BTE.

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