Tony Khan Allegedly Banned AEW Talent from Watching 2023 WWE Royal Rumble

AEW President Tony Khan has a ton of passion for the pro wrestling business and no one can deny that, but people are generally fed up with Khan due to his booking decisions and online antics. With that said, Khan also allegedly banned AEW talent from watching the 2023 Royal Rumble.

In case you didn’t know, fans were acquainted with Dragon Lee in AEW when he was part of Los Ingobernables back in 2022. Lee eventually signed with WWE and he made the announcement after he and Dralsitico beat FTR to win the AAA Tag Team titles at the AAA Noche de Campeones event in Acapulco.

While speaking on the Keeping It 100 podcast, Konnan shared an intriguing story about his experience working with FTR and the reaction from AEW President Tony Khan after Dragon Lee signed with WWE.

“When FTR was working with us, I gave the Tag Team titles to Dragon Lee and his brother Dralistico. The next day, Dragon Lee signed with WWE. He hadn’t signed yet, but the next day he did.”

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Konnan revealed that Tony Khan was absolutely infuriated with Konnan over this move and accused him of stabbing him in the back.

“Well, Tony went nuts, and I had to fly over there. He went off and was like, ‘Yeah, yeah, why are you doing this? I can’t believe you did this. You stabbed me in the back, and you should have told me before.’

So I said, ‘Basically what you’re trying to tell me is you don’t want me to work with WWE again?’ He goes, ‘No, I didn’t say that. I have two witnesses saying I didn’t say that.”’

Konnan then disclosed an interesting detail about the situation, claiming that Tony Khan had issued an edict forbidding AEW talent from watching the Royal Rumble event last year.

”But bro, he had given out that day the order that if he found out anybody was watching Cody at the Royal Rumble when he returned and won, he [Tony Khan] basically gave an edict: ‘I better not find anybody watching that show.'”

With that said, Billy Gunn did defend Tony Khan from haters who continue to undermine him. Regardless, Tony Khan is clearly not in good standing with many people right now and that might not be changing anytime soon.

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