Tony Khan sticks up for JR.
A breach of contract and defamation lawsuit was filed against All Elite Wrestling by former Collision commentator Kevin Kelly and The Tate Twins (Brandon Tate & Brent Tate). Representing them in their case is attorney Stephen P. New.
New made a media appearance and spoke about the case. While he was on House of Kayfabe, he addressed AEW commentator Jim Ross for calling the lawsuit ‘frivolous.’ Here’s what he said about J.R.:
I need to make a response. J.R., Jim Ross called this lawsuit frivolous. Well, let me tell you something, boola-boola, this is not a frivolous lawsuit. You’re part of the problem. You, Jim Ross, are part of the problem because you fed the guys in WWE, as Talent Relations, these crap contracts for a quarter of a century. You told these guys that it was the take it or leave it deal and that they needed to sign these crap contracts that were contracts of adhesion, that they should’ve never have signed or they should have lined the arbitration provisions out of so, I’m not shocked in the least that you go on Conrad Thompson’s podcast and you say that this is a frivolous lawsuit. I might lose it, but bah gawd! It’s not frivolous. I can tell you that.
Tony Khan’s paid J.R. a lot of money to do nothing, for about five years now, and so, if I were Jim Ross and I were living at Jacksonville Beach and making a bunch of money to not do much at all, I’d probably come out and call Stephen P. New’s lawsuit frivolous also. Everybody’s got a price.
In response to that, Tony Khan tweeted the following:
I’ve just read Stephen P. New’s comments about @JRsBBQ.
I’m shocked + appalled by these comments on legend Jim Ross, part of AEW’s foundation, someone so important from the beginning of AEW and still right now today.
AEW, JR & I reserve all rights.See you tonight at #AEWAllOut
In the aforementioned media appearance, P. New revealed that Kevin Kelly had a three-year contract with AEW at the time of his firing.
