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Select Answers: Media Literacy, Sting, Severance Packages

Added 2025-07-22 16:00:10 +0000 UTC

Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.

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What's the most baffling piece of media illiteracy in regards to AEW that you can remember.

Probably all the fake "internal documents," from the "media payroll," fake quotes from WBD execs, and the like. Getting on Facebook more has really highlighted to me how much that stuff spreads without being checked, so we are trying to do that more.

Were you surprised Sting didn’t make a cameo at All In?

Very surprised, as were many people in the company. He lives in Texas, was at the show and had appearances that weekend. He was definitely discussed for an appearance there, but clearly didn't end up happening.

With regards to the changes to severance packages, does this just affect employees or will it affect wrestlers in some way even though they're considered independent contractors and is this a sign of cuts coming for either or both sides.

This only affects employees, not independent contractors. The independent contractors, wrestlers have built in severances that are often called "non competes," but are really just termination notices.