More On Ace Steel Being Back in AEW, what he can and can't do
Added 2023-08-16 20:30:01 +0000 UTCAce Steel is back with AEW….technically.
Ace Steel was brought back to the company ahead of AEW Collision and is on the payroll, but he won’t be in the buildings and hasn't been. Sources confirmed in May to Fightful that due to the Brawl Out situation, he was told that he was considered an “insurance risk,” and wouldn’t be permitted to attend the shows.
After months out of the fold, we’ve learned that Steel met with Tony Khan in recent months and spoke about wrestling. Ultimately it was decided that he could return to AEW in some capacity while not being on the road, and would be permitted to seek work outside of All Elite Wrestling as well. The word was that his deal is up in the Fall of 2024.
Steel supposedly confers on a lot of things, and having periodic conversations with Tony Khan, and suggesting things for CM Punk specifically. It was also suggested that he received back pay for the time that he was out.
Comments
This really shows Tony’s weakness as a boss. You can’t allow anyone to be bigger than the company itself. You can’t allow any one talent to be in control of any show. If you hire people to positions for things like “Talent Relations”, those people have to, corporate structure wise, be above talent and have the ability to both discipline and overrule talent as well as having the ability to go to bat for them. Even if Punk is, secretly, an EVP, we’re talking about a company where you have 3 other EVPs, so he shouldn’t have the authority to force anyone to go home that the other 3 do not. I think Tony needs to choose someone from the company who isn’t talent to be a President of Talent Relations, putting them technically even above the EVPs. There needs to be delegation of responsibility among the EVPs, so that each have a defined role and they don’t have an undue amount of authority over each other. That’s the only way that the “talent as EVPs” idea can really be tenable.
Benjamin Brown
2023-08-17 17:40:44 +0000 UTCI love wrestling! The only industry you can bite someone in the ring and its completed accepted, and bite someone backstage..... and ALSO completely accepted.
Stephen Harris
2023-08-17 13:52:38 +0000 UTCSeems he can have tony anyway he wants him at this point.
Troy A Palek
2023-08-16 23:37:05 +0000 UTCI think your confused. I think everybody, including you, knows if we did anything of the sort we would fired, charged, and likely never work in that field again. Workplace violence is never acceptable. Being paid for committing workplace violence is truly one of the dumbest business moves I've ever heard of. Imo, all 5 should have been fired, how's that for your Elite bias claims? can you admit your CM Punk bias??
Troy A Palek
2023-08-16 23:35:59 +0000 UTCGuess it pays to be friends with the real boss of AEW.
Justin Hesse
2023-08-16 23:29:25 +0000 UTCNo wonder people are comparing Punk to WCW Hogan. I'm so tired.
CSDX
2023-08-16 23:22:24 +0000 UTCdifferent times
e d
2023-08-16 22:12:44 +0000 UTCHe may have received BACK PAY? For biting folks? 😂 This company is a joke. You got one of your talents keeping the head of talent relations from being in the building and you got another guy who BIT SOMEONE being brought back and “might” have received back pay lol. Jesus Christ
Joel Wood
2023-08-16 21:59:01 +0000 UTCVince fired Hogan, let the Rock's contract run out, and sent Steve Austin home. Tony you can fire Ace Steel buddy, you can do it.
Joshua Cooper
2023-08-16 21:58:37 +0000 UTCAce Steel should never be allowed to work in another promotion again. The fact that Tony Kahn brought him back is stupid.
Matt Walker
2023-08-16 20:54:05 +0000 UTCPunk really has Tony by the short hairs.
Keith Kripke
2023-08-16 20:53:37 +0000 UTCThese Elite marks so butthurt lol!
Joel Allison
2023-08-16 20:53:07 +0000 UTCPaid vacation for assaulting company executives? You couldn’t make that shit up. TK truly has ceded full control of his company to Brooks…
David C
2023-08-16 20:51:19 +0000 UTCWhat a pathetic response.
Talk About Your Psalms Talk About John 3 16 Femboy 3 16 Says I Just Licked Your Ass
2023-08-16 20:41:15 +0000 UTCJust watch WWE then.
Joel Allison
2023-08-16 20:40:37 +0000 UTCDid CM Punk make the call on no Goldberg because of Bret?
steve
2023-08-16 20:36:59 +0000 UTCI’m officially sick of Money Mark Tony Khan. I think CM Punk and Ace Steel could have bit him and he’d still bend over for whatever they want.
Talk About Your Psalms Talk About John 3 16 Femboy 3 16 Says I Just Licked Your Ass
2023-08-16 20:36:33 +0000 UTCPeople wanna talk about The Elite bringing in their friends for jobs. This dude esculated a fight with EVPs and only has a job because of Punk.
Flameducky
2023-08-16 20:36:14 +0000 UTCSo, he's literally only there to talk with Tony and to suggest things for Punk? And this man is collecting is STILL collecting a paycheck? Lmao.
Sierra
2023-08-16 20:36:04 +0000 UTCI mean, Bret pulled out some of Shawn's hair and nothing came of it
Flameducky
2023-08-16 20:35:24 +0000 UTCBack pay???? GTFOH!!! This sounds like they're really trying to take advantage now
Danny Valentin
2023-08-16 20:34:31 +0000 UTCThat seems smart lol. Fucking mark tony is for punk
Joe
2023-08-16 20:34:28 +0000 UTCThe fact that Ace wasn’t fired is an embarrassment at this point, and hanging on to him is only creating more problems. Ugh.
Kevin Killavey
2023-08-16 20:33:55 +0000 UTCThe fact that he received back pay—let alone employed at all—is incredible.
BKRMKR
2023-08-16 20:33:07 +0000 UTCThis is a first, you can bite a coworker and not lose your job. Plus get a nice vacation with backpay.
Jimmy 'Big Sexy' Genslinger
2023-08-16 20:32:57 +0000 UTC
