All Elite Wrestling has received a lot of criticism from the Internet Wrestling Community as of late. During the ROH Final Battle post-show media scrum, AEW President Tony Khan said, “To be AEW is to be under constant attack.” Khan added that he doesn’t care about the negative reactions at this point. However, Khan fired back at Disco Inferno for criticizing AEW products last week.
In an interview with SEScoops, MJF explained why many fans criticize All Elite Wrestling. AEW World Champion took Judaism as an example and said that being different makes people uncomfortable.
“Yeah, well, here’s why. I’m actually going to relate this to Judaism because I’m very good at my job. When you think about why people hate us and why we constantly get attacked, it’s because we’re different, and being different makes people uncomfortable.”
MJF said that being fresh and new is the reason why they are getting negative reactions from some people.
“I genuinely feel the reason that a lot of the time you’ll find a lot of.. and don’t get me wrong, there was most certainly constructive criticism online, genuinely.. but you’ll find a lot of non-constructive criticism online. Just wild irredeemably messed up sh-t that people are saying that is either untrue or just mean, you know? And I think the reason that’s happening is Monday Night RAW is the longest reigning episodic television show of all time. We have only been around for what, four and a half years? That’s new, that’s different, and what’s different… different scares people.
So, I actually do agree for once with Tony Khan’s assessment [AEW being the challenger brand to WWE] and I think that’s the issue. I think the issue is that we’re fresh. We’re new. We feel dangerous to people and I kind of get off on that, because I get to be the World Champion of that danger, and that change, just like I get to be a champion of the Jewish people.”