AEW Told Tag Team They Were “Just An Enanchement Thing”

One AEW tag team were sadly never destined to succeed in the company and was even told that they were just to be used as enhancement talent.

The Iron Savages team in AEW consisted of two big men known as Bear Bronson and Bear Boulder. They signed with the company in May 2020 and competed as Bear Country until morphing into the Iron Savages.

Bear Boulder was fired by AEW when he was arrested for battery by strangulation in January. After Boulder’s arrest, Bear Bronson complained that AEW had ignored him as if he were being punished for another man’s problems.

Bear Bronson is now a free agent after leaving AEW, and now he’s explained exactly why he felt he needed to get out of the company.

Iron Savages Considered Enhancement Talent In AEW

Speaking on the Wrestling Junkies podcast, Bear Bronson indicated that his relationship with wrestling hit a wall in AEW where many people were keen to tell him to just be happy with his limited role:

I’m not going to say I ever fell out of love with wrestling, but I do believe I hit a point in AEW where I felt complacent, just with the role that we were given.

And when you’re surrounded by a lot of people that pressure you to just be grateful, be grateful you’re getting used for that minute and 30 seconds, you kind of put yourself in this mode of forcing yourself to be happy with what you’re doing when I’m looking at my best friends on top of the world becoming world champions and even my peers in the locker room chasing the things they want.

But I have a lot of people looking down on me, saying, ‘Just be happy you’re used,’ that kind of gets to you over time.

Bronson continued, noting that he even asked AEW management if there was room to progress up the card, but was told no:

I asked them, ‘Is this something that can grow bigger? Over the next year, can we rise up the card?’ They were very honest with us. Somebody got back to me and said, ‘No, they just see this as an enhancement thing.’ And that’s where I was like, ‘Oh man, I gotta get the f*** out of here.’

When I got into wrestling, when I started as a wrestler, your dream isn’t to be the guy that is already in the ring and loses in 30 seconds, your dream is to main event WrestleMania. Your dream is to be a star, be a top guy, be the best performer you can possibly be. So when they told me that, it was like sirens went off in my head.