During an interview on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, former AEW star Jake Hager (Jack Swagger in WWE) said the following:
“After all the Punk sh*t that went down, the boys got together and we had a meeting and this was the boys only, no office, right? We’re all like – Stings in there, (Big) Show, Jericho, Bryan, Mox, they’re all standing at the front kind of like talking us through this sh*t and lo and behold, who comes into the room storming in? Daddy’s little billionaire (Tony Khan).
He’s like yelling at us because I think it was Dax and Cash, Dax and Wheeler didn’t want to come in. They didn’t like the storyline. So they refused to come to TV that day, and he was like, ‘listen, I’ll put you in a six man, six minutes before the show and you’re going to do it.’ and we’re all feeling disrespected.”
Dax Harwood tweeted the following about Hager’s claims:
“Cash and I were at the all-talent only meeting that was called by Bryan, Jericho, and Mox.
Tony never interrupted.
Cash and I have NEVER refused to show up to work and, I’d to dare say, if you look at our schedules since Collision started, we’re the most consistent talent that make BOTH shows EVERY WEEK.
I’m not really sure where all this is coming from, but it’s mostly not true.”
Cash Wheeler then shared a screenshot of his conversation with Hager, where Hager apologized for his comments:
Hager: I apologize if you’re upset. I said I think it was you two… didn’t say it def was. But that meeting happened.
Wheeler: I know but to say “I think” and then actually say our names makes us look like a$$holes and it wasn’t even us. We’re a$$holes, but we show up for work.
Hager: I apologize I shouldn’t have said your names especially when i didn’t know for sure.
