Kevin Kelly says he's planning to sue AEW

[Chris]

And even then he'd have to prove damages AND that it wasn't true. Apparently extremely hard to win a defamation suit

Damages wouldn't be too hard to prove if he can say that's why he lost his job (it'd just be an Ian problem not AEW as we established earlier) but technically he doesn't even have to prove it wasn't true it's even harder. He has to prove Ian KNEW it wasn't true when he said it, if Ian was spreading wrong info but believed it to be true he's still fucked for a case

 

[Comrade Khan]

Last thing : the show being called Wise Choices n this being the subject is all kinds of stupid I can't even

 

[Comrade Khan]

Damages wouldn't be too hard to prove if he can say that's why he lost his job (it'd just be an Ian problem not AEW as we established earlier) but technically he doesn't even have to prove it wasn't true it's even harder. He has to prove Ian KNEW it wasn't true when he said it, if Ian was spreading wrong info but believed it to be true he's still fucked for a case

Yeah proving intent is very hard lol and proving the reason he got fired might also be difficult unless aew said it to him in writing. They could just say "nah his performance sucked" n point out all his errors on screen

 

[Chris]

Yeah proving intent is very hard lol and proving the reason he got fired might also be difficult unless aew said it to him in writing. They could just say "nah his performance sucked" n point out all his errors on screen

Kevin probably fucked himself already for that too bc he said like last week that he wasn't a good fit for the company but was just mad about how they handled the firing still

 

[Brandon Blaze]

Stephen P New probably will take the case for free, just because he can fuck on AEW since he’s friends with Punk

 

[Comrade Khan]

I'm still waiting for that Stephen p doofus lawsuit he said punk could do too when he got in that weird twitter feud with Jericho.

 

[Comrade Khan]

Stephen P New probably will take the case for free, just because he can fuck on AEW since he’s friends with Punk

Holy fuck jinx lol

 

[Smart Marx]

Stephen P New probably will take the case for free, just because he can fuck on AEW since he’s friends with Punk

Probably not for free but it would be basically for free until they could win. There’s a term for it I don’t know what it is but basically you don’t pay for anything unless you win but if you do win, the lawyer gets a substantial piece of the pie.

 

[Brandon Blaze]

Probably not for free but it would be basically for free until they could win. There’s a term for it I don’t know what it is but basically you don’t pay for anything unless you win but if you do win, the lawyer gets a substantial piece of the pie.

Pro bono? I think that’s the term

 

[Comrade Khan]

Pro Bono is fully free of charge

 

[Smart Marx]

Pro bono? I think that’s the term

Pro bono is usually just free free. But there is a thing where lawyers will only take winnings. It’s usually only when they smell good money.

 

[Brandon Blaze]

Ahh. Then yeah I don’t know the other thats the only one I know as I hear it all the time in movies and tv lmao

 

[Smart Marx]

I honestly do think this entire situation was kind of a mess. Kelly obviously didn’t belong in AEW. He didn’t fit with the brand and he didn’t fit with the other commentators, but he definitely shouldn’t have had a coworker, talking shit about him but all that aside, even if you felt super wronged, going publicly with a lawsuit like this is certainly not gonna help you find your next job.

 

[Smart Marx]

Honestly, a lot of the times it’s reserved for like poor people like women who have a very obvious case of sexual-harassment and wrongful termination where they see that woman can’t possibly pay for the lawsuit, but they smell blood in the water because the case is so strong and they know they can prove sexual-harassment, so they just tell her that they’ll only take money from her if she wins and it’s like 35% or something like that it’s like a ridiculously high percentage but it’s because they’re taking all the risk.

 

[Chris]

Honestly, a lot of the times it’s reserved for like poor people like women who have a very obvious case of sexual-harassment and wrongful termination where they see that woman can’t possibly pay for the lawsuit, but they smell blood in the water because the case is so strong and they know they can prove sexual-harassment, so they just tell her that they’ll only take money from her if she wins and it’s like 35% or something like that it’s like a ridiculously high percentage but it’s because they’re taking all the risk.

If it's against a big company that you think would be trying to settle quick for some quick cash that could be an incentive too