Former ROH World Tag Team Champion BJ Whitmer has been released by AEW. He’d been signed to the company as a producer since 2019 with a lot of work being with the women’s division. His release comes following news of his June 4, 2023 arrest for domestic violence.
Former ROH World Tag Team Champion BJ Whitmer Fired from AEW as Producer Following Domestic Violence Arrest
Whitmer had been charged with first-degree strangulation and second-degree burglary in Boone County, Kentucky. He was released on $25,000 bond and was charged with choking an individual and a couple robberies. AEW released the producer on June 12 and posted a statement via Twitter on the firing of BJ Whitmer:
B.J. Whitmer has been terminated following his arrest on domestic violence charges. While talent and staff are ultimately responsible for their own personal actions, this behavior is intolerable within AEW. AEW has reached out to offer support to those impacted by his behavior.
— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) June 13, 2023
Prior to his crimes, Whitimer served as a producer for Ring of Honor—a promotion he’d been with since 2003 bar a four-year disappearance—and sometimes came out for commentary. He had been a member of Christopher Daniels’ Prophecy faction and the Decade group. He would win Tag Team gold twice with Dan Maff and Jimmy Jacobs—also an AEW producer and creative team member.
While he typically sided with Jacobs, BJ Whitmer would feud with him in the late 2000s. He was often included in the action when it came to larger group feuds but was very rarely a singles focus. His last match with Ring of Honor went down on February 11, 2017 and saw him tag with Punishment Martinez—now WWE’s Damian Priest—against the team of War Machine in an Anything Goes match.
Whitmer’s final match was in late March 2017 bout against Dominic Garrini in Absolute Intense Wrestling. In 2018, he parted ways with ROH due to conflicts with him doing guest trainer spots at the WWE Performance Center. At the time, he also served as a training in the company’s Baltimore Dojo. BJ Whitmer would sign on with AEW a year later.
A date for Whitmer’s court date wasn’t listed in reports. The Overtimer will continue to follow this story if there are developments.
Do you believe this is it for Whitmer in wrestling or is it simply it for him as an agent/producer? If you do see him remaining in the business: where do you see him going?
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