This past Tuesday, Jay Briscoe, genuine name Jamin Pugh, died following an auto accident in Delaware at 38 years of ages.
Wednesday’s episode of AEW Dynamite opened with a graphic of Briscoe and several wrestlers having “Jay” armbands throughout their matches.
As formerly reported, Warner Bros. Discovery did not permit AEW to do a complete homage program to Briscoe due to homophobic tweets Jay published over a years back. WBD had actually obstructed Briscoe’s participation on AEW tv in the past. Jay had actually excused the tweets numerous times throughout the years.
Dave Meltzer reported in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that AEW President Tony Khan made a couple of efforts to get the Briscoes on AEW tv in 2022.
“This previous year there were numerous efforts to get them on the program. They were in fact flown in a couple of times to tv, however they weren’t enabled to be used.There were prepare for them on the 9/4 All Out program in Chicago, to be in a six-man tag with FTR & & Wardlow vs. The Briscoes & & Jay Lethal. Without being able to promote it on tv and due to the fact that the broadcast partners didn’t desire them on AEW broadcasts, the choice was made to bring the Motor City Machine Guns in out of no place to group with Lethal.”
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