>>11333212No it was 100% on Phil.
This goes back to the early 2000s when Ring of Honor and TNA had a working agreement, and a bunch of TNA guys were working ROH shows like Styles and Christopher Daniels and even Phil himself.
Enter Rob Feinstein, the Jewish tape trader who founded the company (also MJF's uncle). Turns out, tapes from Japan and ECW weren't the only kind of tapes he was trading. In a twist that no one could have seen coming, this skeevy kike was busted by the feds. He had been soliciting young boys on the internet for sex, and got caught in a sting operation.
TNA being a "respectable" company decided to just wash its hands of the situation and ordered all their wrestlers to completely cut ties with Ring of Honor. Most of the wrestlers were more than happy to do this as they were completely disgusted by the situation. Unsurprisingly, Phil took the side of the Jewish child molester.
Actually what was going on was that Phil was getting pushed as a top guy in ROH at the time, but in TNA he was a nobody. He was in some nothing tag team/stable where he was one of Raven's toadies with genuine nobody Julio Dinero and Mickie James. They got taken off TV fast. So Phil, self-serving narcissist that he is, wanted to stay in ROH where he'd actually get pushed instead of floundering in TNA as a job guy. But he figured that if enough people pushed back against TNA management, he could have his cake and eat it too. AJ probably had the most pull of everyone affected by this, and AJ told Phil to fuck off, he wanted nothing to do with the pedo company and wasn't going to risk his job and livelihood being Phil's puppet to get what he wanted.
Phil is eternally butthurt about this. If asked I'm sure he'd try to mask it as AJ "not sticking up for the boys" but it's just that he tried to carny his way into keeping his job and TV exposure on TNA while keeping his spot in ROH, and AJ cockblocked him.
