Tony Khan stood in front of the media on Saturday after AEW's Fyter Fest PPV and tried to explain the vicious chair shot mistake on Cody Rhodes.

According to AEW President Tony Khan, Cody Rhodes received 12 staples but is reportedly concussion free and not feeling any ill effects from the error that came when Shawn Spears laid into him with an unprotected chair shot.

The blow came after Cody's time-limit draw with Darby Allin but nobody seems to know what happened or where things went wrong. Suggesting AEW had a plan in place for that specific stunt and that it was Cody's idea to take the shot, Spears came to the ring, blasted his "friend" with a chair and Cody fell to the mat and immediately started to bleed from the back of his head. He was helped out of the arena by medical staff and there was immediate concern he might have suffered a concussion.

Tony Khan called it unfortunate, said AEW called a doctor right away and already had one on hand for that particular stunt. He then added, "You can build the safest airplane in the world and if there's pilot error, there's pilot error."

When asked if this PPV would be reflective of the kind of hardcore violence and dangerous stuff fans might be able to see on TNT, he was unequivocal in his response that, no, this was very different and treated as a PPV. This level of violence would not be part of their weekly show.

What This Means

There has to be an err of regret from Khan and the roster involved in this stunt. Nick Jackson of the Young Bucks said of the chair shot.

"I don't even know what happened, to be honest. All I know is he did get staples, so I'm going to have to look back and I'll have a comment on it later. I do know that they 'gimmicked' the chair and it clearly didn't work since he was bloody."

The good news is, Cody seems ok. The bad news is, this is a pretty big black eye on AEW in its early stages of trying to stand out.

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