Brody King says you shouldn’t believe the hype.
AEW advertised an Elimination Steel Cage Match between FTR & Daniel Garcia and the House of Black on this week’s episode of Collision. The match graphics were later changed to read that the match was an “Escape The Cage” stipulation.
Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez discussed the speculated changes in this match on Wrestling Observer Radio, claiming that the match was changed because someone in House Of Black complained about doing a job.
“Of the guys, I know Daniel Garcia will do a job in a match like that,” Dave Meltzer explained. “And I know FTR will do a job. Because you know, Dax Harwood does a million jobs when the circumstances are right, and Cash Wheeler’s not adversed to it. So, you know, and Malakai Black NEVER does jobs, and when this was going on and I’m watching this, one of the things I was thinking watching this is like, these freaking House of Black guys never do jobs.
“And here’s the other thing,” Meltzer added. “I was thinking like, what if they win this match and they’re just going like, you know like, two of those three guys are going to the WWE. I mean, they’re going. As soon as they can go, they’re gone. Even though they were treated like shit in the WWE, and they never do jobs here, and they’re still going back to the WWE and my thought is kinda like, why do you keep putting them over when you know they’re leaving?”
King’s response
House Of Black’s Brody King has responded to this claim. King wrote that the match stipulation never changed, the wording on the graphic did.
“Funny how someone’s opinion just becomes fact because they’ve been watching wrestling a long time. The format and stipulation of the cage match was always what it was going to be. It’s not our fault the wording on the graphic changed,” King wrote on Twitter.
AEW’s Will Washington also responded to the claims. Washington, AEW’s Wrestling Admin Coordinator, confirmed the text on the graphic was the only thing that changed about the match.
