Yeah, like this is about as dumb and shortsighted as I've ever seen. Like my guy, you got SIXTEEN MONTHS left on that fukking deal andbyoure gonna be signing a long term deal if TK pays you what you want in 2024 anyway. That's why I think he's trying to force a release and get WWE moneyMJF has, hands down, some of the worst negotiating tactics I've ever seen in my life.
"Give me a massive raise right now! Wait, what? fukk no, I don't want to extend my contract! And if you don't give me what I want, I'll complain to the wrestling press until you give me everything I want without me giving literally anything in exchange!"
The fukk?
fukk sports for a second...even in our own normal ass jobs, you're offered a raise with the expectation that the raise will work to RETAIN YOU AT THE JOB FOR A MORE SIGNIFICANT PERIOD OF TIME THAN THE LOWER SALARY WOULD. What in the unholy fukk is this guy thinking if this isn't a work?
Watch dude get iced and ruin his value if this isn't a work. THIS is the kind of recalcitrant backstage nonsense people should be getting up in arms about, not, say, Sasha and Naomi protesting idiotic, shortsighted hotshot booking via walkout.
I don’t see how refusing to negotiate is playing it perfectly. You’re taking away a lot of your leverage by not making it an option to sign with one of the two major American promotions. Why’s Vince got to offer him a ton if he won’t even listen to an AEW offer?This is truly puzzling regardless if it's a work or a shoot. The most bizarre thing is that MJF comes out looking stupid in either scenario. Would've never expected it considering how he was doing a perfect job with his free agency (that's 2 WHOLE fukkING YEARS away)
And if it is a work, it's a case of TK being too much of DVDVR shytposter and stupidly overbooking something he had done an impeccable job building towards.
Would only "make sense" (hard quotes on this one) if WWE had asked him to get released and do it in whatever way he wanted. Vince despises when wrestlers he's signed don't commit their prior commitments (everyone is pretty much forced to do them, as a professional would) and it would create a truly horrible precedent that could bit him in the ass badly down the line.
He was playing it perfectly before what's been reported this week and today.
