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The Boys Respond to Tony Khan Saying They Were Released Due to Missed Bookings
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The Boys have put out a statement addressing their AEW releases and Tony Khan saying it was due to them missing shows. The Tate Twins, who played Dalton Castle’ “Boys” on ROH TV, were among 10 people released from AEW earlier this week. On the ROH Supercard of Honor media call, Khan said that the two “didn’t show up for work on more than one occasion, and it’s not acceptable. I think the whole locker room knew about it, and you can’t do that, and that’s it, and that’s why I had to make a tough call.”
The Tate Twins posted a statement to social media addressing their travel issues, noting that they had been booked for shows but had travel issues due to miscommunication and then a lack of such with AEW’s management. They included screenshots that appear to show their texts with AEW officials about the dates in question and difficulty in getting travel worked out. They go on to say that they were told their releases were due to “budget cuts” and had nothing to do with their travel issues. You can see their full statement below:
“We had planned to stay quiet publicly about our release to take nothing away from the biggest show of the year for ROH in Supercard tonight out of respect to the locker room that will be on it. Due to Tony’s comments and the numerous fans, media outlets, frends and coworkers that have reached out to us, that isn’t an option anymore. We want to apologize to the Ring of Honor fans that were invested in the storyline and were expecting the both of us to be there.
“With so many fans wanting answers in addition to the numerous people that have voiced their comments at the thought of us really just no showing on some of the biggest opportunities of out lives due to Tony Khan’s statements, here it is.
“My brother and I were told that we would be included in this story through Supercard and there were plans for us to be with John and Taya leading up to the show. We were asked to pitch several ideas for ourselves insinuating we would get the opportunity to show that we can wrestle more in the future.
“On March 16, our scheduled date column following ‘Dalton losing custody’, for the first time in our history of flying in North America previously with Sinclair ROH and now Tony Khan’s ROH, our trouble is booked out of Nashville instead of our home airport of Knoxville. (The screenshots of this interaction with management and travel including the times are in the comments.)
“On Monday April 1st. We were contacted by management accompanied by HR on a call to inform us of our release due to “budget cuts.” At that time we raised concerns and repeatedly questioned if the release was due to the travel issues, we were repeatedly and adamantly assured that this is not the case and based solely on budget cuts.
“Since on Tony’s statement, we reached out yesterday providing the specific details asking for Tony to clear this up. We have gotten no response. Unfortunately in the court of public opinion for a lot of people commenting, assumed that we’re guilty from 1 man’s words until we now have to prove we’re not.
“We’re now forced to release this information along with the screenshot proof to keep people from putting us down on social media or on this evening’s show. We understand that putting this out is detrimental to our careers but our back is on the wall on this and it was either this or let Tony Khan go on saying we no showed.
“We want to thank every fan who reached out and made your voices heard as well as the locker room members who have reached out that know the truth as well. We hope you still enjoy the show this evening for the sake of the wrestlers putting on their best and appreciate how much we’ve seen that people really care about two boys who were always considered replaceable.”
— THE Boys (Brandon) (@TateTwinBrandon) April 5, 2024
— THE Boys (Brandon) (@TateTwinBrandon) April 5, 2024
