-- At a meet-and-greet following a GCW event last night in Indianapolis, Joey Janela got into a confrontation with independent wrestler Dylan Bostic that resulted in a brief scuffle where punches were thrown. In a video that caught the incident, Bostic approaches Janela's table and flips it over. Janela then throws the table towards Bostic and the two begin scuffling and grappling on the ground before others in the area intervene and attempt to break up the fight.
Finally got Joey Janela lacking! Gang shit! pic.twitter.com/gd13uZ4xUX
— Dylan Bostic (@Dylan_Bostic) February 1, 2025
-- The incident stems from a situation in 2020 following the death of Brodie Lee and the show AEW put on. Bostic served as an extra and was upset at the compensation he received from AEW for his work and posted publicly about it. Many in AEW obviously took offense to his complaints at such a tragic time as many were grieving the death of their peer. Britt Baker posted in response calling Bostic a "sick human" and noting that while "the wrestling world is mourning the loss of an amazing friend, husband and father and your (sic) bitching about $120?" while Janela sent Bostic a private message calling him a p*ssy and that he would blast him "on sight" which Bostic then made public and challenged Janela to a fight.
I challenge Joey Janela to fight me in either boxing or mma, his choice. Man up or shut up! #AEWDynamite pic.twitter.com/pE3ArgrUU7
— Dylan Bostic (@Dylan_Bostic) April 21, 2021
-- Janela released a statement this morning, commenting on the incident:
"Gonna nip this in the butt there’s a Video circulating of me getting ambushed at my table while I was meeting fans after the show tonight, it stems from him airing his grievances about his experience doing AEW extra work the day after brodie lee’s death that a lot of us were very upset about. I took to twitter because I thought it was disgusting and we went back and forth. Tonight 4 years later he flipped me and Megan’s gimmick table over, to confront me and we got into a scuffle, which resulted in the GCW crew thinking I was getting attacked by a deranged fan & Megan thinking it was some weird Joey janela skit. For someone that claims to have boxing training amazingly not one punch landed, and he was eventually carried out like a crying baby by Calvin Tankman. Sorry to all the fans that had to witness that it was an extremely embarrassing situation & sorry to all the Indianapolis crew that wanted to put on a great weekend of independent wrestling for the city. Sorry if I contributed to any of the unneeded drama."