Jake Hager: Everything Changed in AEW Once Cody Rhodes Left, The Company Wasn’t Important to Tony Khan Anymore
Jake Hager had more to say about his former boss.
In a recent interview with Bill Apter, Chris Featherstone, and Dutch Mantell on Sportskeeda, Jake Hager, who worked with All Elite Wrestling for a couple of years, from their debut show to the first Stadium Stampede match, Hager was part of the Inner Circle and Jericho Appreciation Society where he was a big fan of his purple hat.
However, Hager has mentioned that he does not like Tony Khan and even made claims that once Cody Rhodes departed from AEW in 2022, the company seemed to no longer be important to Khan, per Hager.
“I think everything changed after [Cody Rhodes] left because he was involved with it, and after that, it just kind of became a free-for-all. Young Bucks and Kenny still had a big say in what they were doing. Chris [Jericho], obviously, has a big say in what he’s doing. Even Chris, he would tell me that Tony [Khan] would not respond to his messages for two weeks. It became a point where, either AEW is important or it’s not. It just seemed like it was not to him. They stopped doing production meetings. They stopped doing anything to make the show timely. We would be waiting around to 5 PM to find out what we were doing that day. What live television show does that? Only one with money behind it.”
Hager also said in another interview with Chris Van Vliet that he felt disrespected by Khan after he was only offered an eighteen-month deal to return to All Elite Wrestling.
(H/T to Fightful)
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