Subhojeet Mukherjee on October 13, 2023
AEW President Tony Khan has a lot of passion for the world of professional wrestling, but that doesn’t mean he has maintained his reputation in the best way lately. After AEW Dynamite lost to NXT this week, Tony Khan became unhinged on Twitter and even threw shade at The Undertaker and John Cena. Khan has now been mocked for his actions.
This week’s episode of NXT defeated AEW Dynamite in terms of ratings by very large margin, which many fans didn’t find surprising. Before the shows, Tony Khan threw shade at McMahon for his assault allegations. He then went after Vince McMahon once again after AEW Dynamite lost to NXT.
Tony Khan then threw shade at The Undertaker and John Cena for failing to pull enough viewers for NXT. While speaking on his Hall of Fame podcast, Booker T talked about Tony Khan throwing shade at The Undertaker and John Cena.
“One guy I try not to dig at is Tony Khan because he’s a guy trying to run a business. But at the same time, I gotta take a dig at this last comment that he made about the NXT rating.
“He said that it was the first time that John Cena and the Undertaker appeared in front of less than a million people for #WWE and the thing is, he’s got Edge and Christian and all of those guys…
“So it’s like, when you say stuff like that, you might want to think about it before you say stuff like that. Because Edge was in the main event. Edge was in the main event of that show and they pulled 609 (thousand viewers).
The thing is, I’m sure, I’m sure Tony Khan thought that that was going to be a bigger number. I can’t be positive on this but I can imagine that Tony Khan would have thought that #AEW Dynamite would have gotten a bigger number.
“… I don’t know what Tony Khan’s modus operandi is, I don’t know what his fixation on WWE is but I’ve said this once, I’ll say it a thousand times – Tony Khan got a hell of a product, he’s got a hell of a thing going but I really think that just like WCW, they focused on ‘WWE, WWE’, everything they were doing, they were trying to counterprogram every Monday night.
“‘What are they doing? What are they doing?’ And I really think that WCW thought themselves right out of the war because they were focused on winning and beating WWE when they had a hell of a product already.”
AEW also doesn’t have any approval procedure in place for Tony Khan’s tweets on social media. Regardless, only time will tell whether Tony Khan will learn to be more selective with his tweets on social media.
What’s your view on what Booker T said? Are you in agreement with him? Let us know in the comments!
October 13, 2023 5:50 am
Disqus Comments Loading...
Exclusives
