Brody King on His Praise of AEW For Being Best Alternate to WWE, Mentality Some People Had Coming In About AEW Being Something Different For Why They Didn’t Last, & Critics Wanting Him To “Shut Up & Just Wrestle” Over His Anti-Ice Stance

A recent Squared Circle Expo V convention event in Indianapolis, Indiana featured an AEW panel with Brody King among the guests. One of the topics discussed included King’s praise of AEW’s product being the best alternate to WWE.

“I feel like AEW now, and since its inception, has always been a different product for different people. Someone like Eddie [Kingston] should’ve been signed to a contract 20 years ago. For it to take that long for him to be on a national television product, it’s criminal. But, it’s because he is him and you can’t change that.”

King also gave his thoughts about how some people came to AEW thinking that the promotion would be something different and this mentality being a reason why they did not last or find big success.

“There’s a lot of people like us that you just — we are going to be who we are. I feel like some people came to AEW thinking that it was going to be something different and they didn’t last, for better or for worse. Some of them have succeeded, some of them haven’t. But the people that are there now want to be at AEW because they want to do the product that we provide.”

King also gave his thoughts about his critics who want him to just “shut up and wrestle” over his outspoken anti-ICE political views and how those same people don’t have an issue with the President Donald Trump being in WWE’s Hall of Fame.

“People want to say just shut up and wrestle, don’t talk about political statements. Our president is in the WWE Hall Of Fame. That’s all I got to say. I don’t care if he wrestled or not, he can go fuck himself.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com 1 & 2