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AEW is in dire need of any kind of senior leadership backstage. It's no wonder Cornette turned down Khan's offer to work backstage for the company. Then you have other workers with significant experience like Regal, Anderson, Blanchard, Kazarian, Steel, Cody, and Guerrero who have all left for various reasons. It feels like the inmates are running the asylum there, and there is a real lack of direction in the company. The in-ring work is still fine, because that creative freedom is allowed. Yet week after week there is more negativity being brought to the company. They need to bring in someone from outside the company to fix these issues.

We hear about more problems within AEW weekly than we have during the Khan/Helmsley era. I can't think of a single backstage issue that has occured in the WWE in years. Maybe they do a better job of keeping it under wraps, but look at someone like Shinsuke Nakamura who sat at home for months and we never heard a peep out of him. Compare that to Starks, Miro, and Malakai Black. They were pretty open about their dissatisfaction, two of which will likely never be seen on AEW programming again. Meanwhile Shinsuke was brought back seamlessly and people adore him. I find it wild Tony is so willing to let all these people sit at home and collect paycheques. The one thing he did do right was to fire Punk! Why is he holding all the rest up, they won't move the metrics like Punk did.

Also does anyone listen to the Stevie Richards podcast? Highly recommended. Very insightful and well-spoken... Richards loves Punk, and usually speaks highly of him.