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Ace Steel is back with AEW….technically.

Ace Steel was  brought back to the company ahead of AEW Collision and is on the payroll, but he won’t be in the buildings and hasn't been. Sources confirmed in May to Fightful that due to the Brawl Out situation, he was told that he was considered an “insurance risk,” and wouldn’t be permitted to attend the shows.

After months out of the fold, we’ve learned that Steel met with Tony Khan in recent months and spoke about wrestling. Ultimately it was decided that he could return to AEW in some capacity while not being on the road, and would be permitted to seek work outside of All Elite Wrestling as well. The word was that his deal is up in the Fall of 2024.

Steel supposedly confers on a lot of things, and having periodic conversations with Tony Khan, and suggesting things for CM Punk specifically. It was also suggested that he received back pay for the time that he was out.

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CSDX

No wonder people are comparing Punk to WCW Hogan. I'm so tired.

Justin Hesse

Guess it pays to be friends with the real boss of AEW.

Stephen Harris

I love wrestling! The only industry you can bite someone in the ring and its completed accepted, and bite someone backstage..... and ALSO completely accepted.

Benjamin Brown

This really shows Tony’s weakness as a boss. You can’t allow anyone to be bigger than the company itself. You can’t allow any one talent to be in control of any show. If you hire people to positions for things like “Talent Relations”, those people have to, corporate structure wise, be above talent and have the ability to both discipline and overrule talent as well as having the ability to go to bat for them. Even if Punk is, secretly, an EVP, we’re talking about a company where you have 3 other EVPs, so he shouldn’t have the authority to force anyone to go home that the other 3 do not. I think Tony needs to choose someone from the company who isn’t talent to be a President of Talent Relations, putting them technically even above the EVPs. There needs to be delegation of responsibility among the EVPs, so that each have a defined role and they don’t have an undue amount of authority over each other. That’s the only way that the “talent as EVPs” idea can really be tenable.