All Elite Wrestling got the wrestling world talking on Saturday night with their big Double or Nothing pay-per-view, and Sami Zayn got the wrestling world talking on Monday when he name-dropped AEW on Raw.
Since then there have been conflicting reports regarding whether or not Sami Zayn’s line about AEW was scripted.
Dave Meltzer reported on Wrestling Observer Radio that the line was in the script, but his co-host Bryan Alvarez noted that he was told the line wasn’t scripted.
Bryan Alvarez shared another update on Wrestling Observer Live and said that there are people who insist Sami was given the ok to mention AEW, and that it was in the script.
However, he also noted that there are far more people claiming the line was not in the script, and that Vince McMahon flipped out backstage.
“I was also told from multiple people that when it happened, Vince flipped his lid. He was furious that this happened, OK? So, that’s literally… those are the two things that I can tell you. So, however you want to figure out what the hell is going on here, there’s various ways that you could explain this. The one that people seem to think is the most likely, is that a small number of people were told that he was given the OK, and that they’re working the boys and flipping out about it. I don’t know what the answer is, all I know is that some people were told that he was given the OK, but most people said that he wasn’t, and that Vince flipped out. I wasn’t there, I don’t know how the flip out occurred, I wasn’t there to witness it, but I do know that the people there who absolutely 100% believed that he was very angry, that this was not him putting on a show for people, that this was not him trying to work the boys, that he was angry when this got on the air. I don’t know how to explain everything, I just know that’s what happened last night.”
Again, there seem to be conflicting reports regarding whether or not the line was in the script or not.
PWInsider later reported that the line about AEW wasn’t in the script, but it’s also worth mentioning that PWInsider noted if WWE really had a problem with the line they would have used the 15 second delay to bleep it out.
That #AEW name drop…. #WWE #RAW pic.twitter.com/5JTRq2ZEU5
— Get The Tables (@GetDaTables) May 28, 2019
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