Brody King, competing against wrestler MJF in the ring at the Vegas match, has been outspoken against ICE and organized campaigns to raise money supporting immigrant communities.
Fans at an All Elite Wrestling match on Wednesday night broke out into an anti-ICE chant that briefly paused the pro-wrestling match.
At the AEW World Championship Eliminator Match in Las Vegas, which was being broadcast live on TBS and HBO Max, a loud and sustained cry against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of “F— ICE” reverberated through the audience before the opening bell rang.
The AEW Dynamite main event brought together a large crowd in Vegas, a major immigration destination for Latinos where almost 35% of the population is Hispanic or Latino. The professional wrestling company has also attracted a larger Latino fan base in recent years by embracing Mexican luchadores and the Latino wrestling tradition.
Can this happen during the Superbowl please?
Fuck yeah. Make America beautiful again
If this happens I will be so proud I might just start blaring Lee Greenwood while fist pumping and screaming fuck ice. Yeah I know that orange deformed orangutan titty ruined it, but I’m taking it back. We should take it all back.
(Unless Trump somehow gets royalties off of it now… if so there’s also a Dolly version, maybe I’ll just pump that version instead)…
Lee Greenwood is ultra MAGA and a proud Trump supporter. They can keep their propaganda song.
Dude is also the singer of a band that is pretty open about what we should do to fascists, and before all this worked backstage on RuPaul’s drag race.
So major props to him not reacting when this happened and he was in character, although it would have been an understandable moment to break kayfab
Fuck yeah! I saw God’s Hate a few years back and talked to him a bit. Rad dude.
“Pausing match” means they paused for like 4 seconds while they let the crowd chant. They do that all the time in pro wrestling. And being anti-ICE seems to be part of his gimmick.
This is from the ref in the match
Eh, sort of.
For a particularly meaningful chant? Yeah, they’ll halt things to let it breathe (and get the footage).
But in this case? The referee (Bryce Remsburg) has openly stated he intentionally delayed the match to let the chant keep going. And the commentators stopped themselves mid conversation to also let it breathe.
And “being anti-ice” is not really part of either wrestler’s gimmick. Nathan Blauvelt (Brody King) is a hardcore punk musician and came out in an “abolish ice” shirt once but not a big deal was made out of it. And MJF is one of the most obnoxious (and talented) heels in the history of wrestling who pretty regularly will break character on social media only to call out bigots.
So, based on that info: The chant was likely a result of seeing Brody but is mostly just because ice are fucking monsters. MJF in particular seemed to want to mug it up and draw attention without any prompting. Bryce, the referee, may have been given instruction to let it breathe from the back (so Tony Khan and the rest of creative) or he did it of his own initiative. It is likely the announcers (Tony Schiavonne and Excalibur) were given guidance from creative to do so as well.
Its also worth noting all of this happened AFTER the official end of Dynamite when they were in the (effectively planned for at this point) overrun. And while it gets messy as to how much TNT/TBS actually care, they are technically supposed to be wrapping it up by that point. And this was a double taping night so there is also the concern about keeping the audience up too late since there was a whole 'nother two hour show to tape basically within minutes of Dynamite ending.
Let’s go Brody?
