Lars Sullivan has apparently seen all the attention Brody King has been getting lately, and he decided to throw himself into the conversation. The former WWE star didn’t exactly hold back either.
It started when a fan took to Twitter and unloaded on Brody King over his outspoken anti-ICE views, while also attacking his wrestling and claiming his politics were the reason people were talking about him.
“What’s funny is Brody is a 6’6 250 pound liberal b**** waste of man who has to resort to being Anti American and an atheist to get people to talk about him because his matches f****** suck. You people so f****** re****** ya’ll act like immigration laws is a ‘U.S. Thing.’ Ya’ll getting deported from everywhere on the planet if you don’t have any papers you dumb son of a b*****.”
That’s when Sullivan showed up in the replies with his own assessment of King. He kept it considerably shorter, but definitely not any friendlier, as he claimed King’s character is a “Fat Antifa dork.”
“His character is fat antifa dork.”
King has found himself getting plenty of attention outside the usual wrestling bubble this year because of his opposition to ICE. That has spilled directly into AEW shows, where crowds have repeatedly broken into loud “F*** ICE” chants during his appearances.
The reaction became especially noticeable at AEW Grand Slam Australia on February 14 before popping up again during episodes of Dynamite. At one point, the chants even interrupted a backstage promo involving King, making it pretty hard for AEW to ignore what was happening in the crowd.
Tony Khan was eventually asked about all of this during the AEW Revolution media call. Instead of trying to distance himself from King, Khan praised him and pointed out that King had built a reputation for himself both inside and outside wrestling long before the recent mainstream attention arrived.
Khan also made it clear that he viewed King’s outspoken personality as genuine rather than some gimmick cooked up to get attention. As for the chants themselves, Khan wasn’t interested in policing what AEW crowds wanted to say and defended that kind of fan expression as part of the live wrestling experience.
Sullivan obviously has a very different read on the situation. He boiled everything surrounding King down to one nasty five-word insult, and now the ball is sitting in Brody’s court if he feels like giving a former WWE star any attention at all.
Do you think Brody King should fire back at Lars Sullivan, or is this one better left unanswered? Let us know what you think in the comments.
