Anthony Ogogo On F*ck ICE Chants At AEW Shows: When You Start Bringing Political Things Into The Show, It Then Brings Real Life Into The Show, Which Should Be An Escape

Anthony Ogogo comments on AEW shows being prone to ‘F*ck ICE chants’.

In recent shows that have featured Brody King, AEW fans have begun to respond to the wrestler with chants of ‘F*ck ICE’ in response to Brody King’s views about the organization in the United States.

While speaking to ITR Wrestling in a new interview, Anthony Ogogo spoke about ‘F*ck ICE’ chants during AEW shows.

“I don’t like sitting on a fence. I’ll say what I feel. I have talked to Jerry Lynn. It’s a strange one really. It’s one of those ones where, I can talk about myself, when I was growing up as a kid, or when I was a young man, it’s weird that I watch less wrestling now, or since I have since I became a wrestler, than I did before, since I am doing it all the time. I’d put the TV on, and I’d settle down and I’d watch wrestling. If life was stressful for whatever was going on, I’d watch for two hours, enjoy my wrestling and I’d get back to my life. I’d get back to whatever I was facing at that time. When you start bringing up political things into the show, it then brings real life into the show, which should be an escape. That’s one perspective to have, like there’s lots of crazy c*ap going on in the world, I want to avoid that and watch wrestling for two hours. However, that being said, we have lots of fans, lots of passionate fans, and it’s one of those things where people want to voice their opinions. Ricky Gervais says it very well. Ricky Gervais was hosting the Golden Globes. He’d be like come up here, say thank you and p*ss off. Don’t start doing monologues and this and that. It’s almost like that. Come in, wrestle, p*ss off. That being said, when I was doing promo, when I was with Cody, I did a promo, five years ago, I was obviously bashing America and I was talking about ICE, so all about leaving politics out and all that, I have done it. I did it five years ago before it was cool to talk about it. It is what it is at the end of the day. Wrestling is all about emotion.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Ogogo spoke on his absence from AEW/ROH. You can read more about that here.