Tony Khan Criticized For His Lack Of On-Screen Authority In AEW

AEW President Tony Khan is famous for a variety of reasons. He truly loves professional wrestling and fans are glad he is the one calling the shots in AEW, for the most part. Khan was also criticized recently.

As seen on last week’s episode of AEW Dynamite,  Khan and NJPW President Takami Ohbari addressed the crowd. They were going to announce the ‘Forbidden Door’ pay-per-view before Adam Cole and Jay White interrupted them.

Cole and White ended up doing the announcement instead. While speaking on the Jim Cornette Experience podcast, Jim Cornette commented on the segment. He criticised Tony Khan for his lack of on-screen authority in AEW.

“They’ve no one representing the promotion, no person in charge of speaking on behalf of AEW on television except for Tony Khan. Apparently, they had realized that on an announcement like this where matches revealed that he simply could not do this, he is not a television performer or a public speaker, and he is way in over his head.

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So they actually have the heel wrestler make the big announcement on behalf of the promotion? Have you ever seen that before in your life? They really need an AEW President, they need a commissioner, they need somebody that the people don’t mind listening to and can say these things in an authoritative way.”

Tony Khan was also criticized for stroking his ego with repeated AEW television appearances recently. We’ll have to wait and see whether AEW will have a proper on-screen authority figure or not.

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