UPDATE: To be clear, Wade Keller never reported that Ospreay was against the promo. He has since reported that he was enthusiastic about it.
UPDATE: Fightful Select is reporting that Ospreay was fine with the promo. Fightful also reports that there were no issues and he worked with the creative team on his promo. Furthermore, Fightful added that The Young Bucks were said to be fine and in favor of their segment that showed the Punk/Perry footage and FTR were told in advance of the segment. It appears that the segment is helping Perry because as was noted earlier, his “Scapegoat” shirt is sold out.
ORIGINAL POST: Most of the talk coming out of last night’s AEW Dynamite is centered around the CM Punk/Jack Perry footage that aired and Will Ospreay’s comments about Triple H. The decision to air the footage last night seems to be a reaction to what CM Punk said on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Hour last week and, per Wade Keller at PWTorch.com, the idea did not come from the parties involved in their respective segments.
“I’ve been checking with people in AEW and I have been told that this was not something The Bucks were in favor of doing. It wasn’t their idea, it was Tony Khan’s idea that he wanted this out there,” Keller said.
Keller continued, “They also had Will Ospreay go on camera, interviewed by Renee Paquette on the stage. The first part of his promo was him addressing a comment that Triple H said on the podcast [that was] alluding to Will Ospreay being someone who didn’t want to be part of the grind.”
Keller said the promo wasn’t Ospreay’s idea. “I’m also told that this was an idea presented to Ospreay,” Keller said. “I don’t know about Ospreay’s enthusiasm for or against it but it wasn’t something he did on his own. He didn’t wing it. It was something that hours before the interview took place, was proposed to him. That’s what I’m hearing from AEW.”
Keller went on to say that he hasn’t heard anyone who was in favor of the Punk/Perry footage or the Triple H comments airing.
“Based on what I’m hearing from multiple people in AEW, nobody that they know was in favor of what Tony Khan put on TV [between] the Punk footage and the Ospreay did at Triple H. People see it as a distraction and Tony Khan going after two people that Tony has issues with, Punk and Paul Levesque. Tony Khan sees Paul Levesque very much as a foe in his world.”
Keller went on to say, “I would say the morale isn’t great as far as this goes.”
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