Here’s Why AEW Nearly Changed Plans On Jade Cargill Winning TBS Championship

It has been revealed that AEW nearly changed their plans for the winner of the TBS Championship Tournament after former star Big Swole “spoiled” the result in a tweet from before the tournament started.

According to Dave Meltzer in the latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the call was nearly made to change the result of the tournament, which had in fact been decided before the tournament even started.

There has been a lot of controversy regarding Big Swole’s departure from AEW, largely due to Tony Khan’s highly criticised tweet regarding diversity within the promotion.

Here’s the tweet which caused the issues.

And here is what Meltzer wrote in the latest Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Jade Cargill’s TBS title win may have come off to some as a reaction, but that decision was made before the tournament ever started. There were people internally who believed Swole gave away the tournament finish by pretty much saying they’ll pick Jade before the tournament started, but very few fans made that connection. Evidently there was a discussion with the idea the champion was given away to change it up, but they went with the original plan.

Cargill is yet to be booked for a match on tomorrow’s AEW Battle of the Belts special, but there’s every chance that could change in the next 36 hours or so.

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