AEW Star Claims MJF Rejected Someone Else Having Promo Time

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An AEW star has claimed that MJF rejected someone else having promo time.

Dave Meltzer reported in the current Wrestling Observer (subscription required) that:

“Dax Harwood on MJF, Tully Blanchard and The Pinnacle from his podcast.

“He brought up a promo segment where they were together and he and Cash Wheeler pushed for Blanchard to have promo time in the segment and claimed MJF turned that down.

Referencing comments that the Pinnacle were “DOA”, Meltzer would quote Harwood as saying:

“Me and Cash, we would sacrifice us and sacrifice our ‘cool stuff’ to give something to Tully, always. Whether it was in the match with – we’ll talk about it later – Darby and Sting where Tully was the factor and the reason the match ended. We always gave him time to talk because if we didn’t then our group was dead in the water because then it was just three people together.

“So, before this promo, I remember talking to Max and I said, ‘Hey, I think we should allow Tully to do something, some of the talking,’ because that promo was 10 minutes long or whatever.

“Max was like, ‘No no, I really think I should do all the talking.’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, but we’ve got one of the greatest talkers of all time, Tully Blanchard, and he’s our manager and he’s the reason we’re all tied together, I think he should say a little something.’

“Max didn’t see that my way and so Tully just sat in the back and so did everybody else.”

Blanchard confirmed his departure from AEW in January 2022, describing the situation as complex but his contract was up.

AEW announcer Tony Schiavone would reflect on Blanchard’s departure on his What Happened When podcast revealing it had been “fun” to work with Blanchard once again.

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