Following Game Changer Wrestling’s event in Indianapolis on Friday, former AEW star Joey Janela was involved in an altercation with Dylan Bostic.
Video footage of the incident has since surfaced on social media, sparking discussion among fans and wrestling circles.
Joey Janela was assaulted by Dylan Bostic at a meet-and-greet last night. Other wrestlers jumped in to help Joey. pic.twitter.com/cCK7qazlPE
— Pro Wrestling & MMA News (@PWMMANews) February 1, 2025
Janela issued the following statement regarding what happened:
“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.”
“The first shot went behind my neck and the second didn’t connect, I wrestled him to the floor and put him in a clench and could’ve choked him 100% out but they were beating him like a sack of potato’s. He kept saying ‘we’re good, we’re good’ then he was carried out like a baby with 4 different footprints on this face. This is the last I speak of this shit because it was fucking embarrassing”
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…
— “The Bad Boy” Joey Janela (@JANELABABY) February 1, 2025
