Tony Khan is known for speaking his mind on social media, and isn’t afraid to tell you how he feels. That’s exactly what happened following a tweet from the official USA Network Twitter account, as they mocked Tony Khan for his love of 5 Star matches, and his usage of the wrestling website CageMatch.net. Tony Khan fired back on USA Network, WWE, and Jinder Mahal for not winning a single match in over a year, and for him getting a World Championship match against Seth Rollins on WWE Raw next week in his latest social media rant, and the wrestling community are once again up in arms about Tony Khan’s social media behavior. Does he have the right to stand his ground? Is he wrong in what he said? @JDfromNY, and Andrew Baydala discuss, and why Tony Khan always has a strategy in mind when he decides he is going to rant on social media.
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Balla what is going on man holy what happened on Twitter man what’s up everybody is everybody all right everybody having a meltdown everybody’s having a meltdown man listen I have a question bro who the is hook yeah who the that young punk trying to make a
Name for himself that son of a oh man I wonder what Taz was thinking man when he saw that tweet holy you know like again here’s the deal why why are people misconstruing and like not understanding what Tony Khan does I just don’t get it like he’s done this a
Hundred times and we pretend like it’s not something that’s the norm for him does it work is it something that I would do maybe not but Tony seems to keep doing this so why is this like special all of a sudden why does this
Shock you guys I don’t get it I I don’t know and what uh what Drew is uh alluding to is USA Network mocked aw and Tony Khan Tony KH fired back at a jab at WWE Jinder Mahal Seth Rollins and what happened on Monday Night Raw last night
We’ll get into all that I got everything documented it literally happened as I awoken from my nap this afternoon ordered Uber Eats ordered Chipotle and before I even sat down and ate my burrito there was a hell storm on social media my burrito somebody said I look different well I used manscape
This afternoon so that’s why I look different so I shaved I know I look like a little kid not normally my my thing but I shaved I got a big week ahead of me I’m going to Tampa to film a football documentary uh gonna partake in a
Tournament as well and uh yeah so I clean myself up a little bit don’t hate it I still look good yeah listen man it’s a you look professional enough where you don’t have to uh uh gloat about your credentials for the Royal Rumble ah I’m just going my on that
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Topic here USA Network mock Tony KH Tony KH fired back about jind Mahal getting a championship match not winning a WWE match in more than a year so how it all started Tony Khan took a shot at the individual who runs the USA Network account on X nobody knows who this is in
Response to something that was posted last night after it was announced that Jinder Mahal would be challenging Seth Rollins for the World Heavyweight Championship next Monday night on Raw now Raj giri we love Raj he pointed out that Rollins and Mahal have a history since Rollins defeated Mahal to become
The first ever NXT champion the USA Network account chimed in and asked Raj and I quote what was the cage match rating end quote now cage match is a website that Tony Khan uses to gauge the feeling from the fans it’s definitely a mark crowd over there gauge the feeling
Of how he is going about the aw product it’s they rate they rate it him base it on a score so he takes a lot of what the fans take into consideration as he books week to We Tell television now many on social media saw this as a shot at aew
An Tony KH who has side of cagematch.net user ratings in the past when talking about great aew matches the USA Network account is believed to be run by a USA Network employee nobody knows who that is but clearly they’re on top of what’s going on in and around WWE and pro pro
Wrestling on X so Tony KH saw this tweet and this is where things got started and uh we we’ll take it step by step here because I know Drew’s got a lot to say about this as do I it’s a great television show by the way from the 90s
Step by step oh yeah absolutely I was uh that and Boy Meets World were my favorite TGF shows who didn’t love TJ Family Matters uh Boy Meets World Sister Sister all that it was good stuff it’s good stuff uh fun fact I always wanted hair like uh like Roger strong Sean
Hunter on on boy me’s world and uh me too sadly I’m losing mine so it is what it is well I’ve lost mine so welcome to the I mean don’t get me wrong it grows but I’m not one of those guys who does things like fivers 10% so when I had
About like 20% of my hair 30% of my hair I was like nah we’re getting rid of all of it I do things 110% yeah I’m uh I’ve been told to do that same thing with mine but I can’t pull the trigger on it I’m not there yet but I mean sooner or
Later I’ll be there to each their own you got to be comfortable in your own skin I urge everybody to be comfortable in your own skin there you go oh Tony Khan’s comfortable in his own skin he said this and I quote on social media a
Moral victory for the USA Network is one win more than their world title challenge here Jun Mahal has in the past 364 days because it’s been literally a full year since he won a match you really put aw in our place getting Jinder mahalin a big match on your TV
Show you should do it more often then he follows this up and says a double standard from the people in the IWC hook has a 28-1 career record on a winning streak calls out the champ a logical challenge Sparks online Rage or outrage Jinder has literally lost every single
Match he’s been in for the past year immediately gets a title shot where is the rage and then he promotes aw Dynamite tomorrow on TBS so there you have it USA Network and Tony KH are feuding on social media and uh everybody’s just losing their minds over
What happened here so I’ll stop here Drew I know you got a lot to say so please indulge Us in what the is going on here well we we do things the right way here on TNT have since day one we don’t talk um we don’t you know
Spread lies so I will say this Fox fired the first shot Fox fired the first shot we got speaking of shots we got a $100 bomb that just came through but Fox fired the first shot to Tony about the Jacksonville Jaguars missing the Playoffs so I think that’s might of what
Riled him up uh that’s I see I didn’t know that because I don’t really follow the NFL so I’m I’m and Drew is a big football guy so uh I mean if I’m Tony KH and I’m owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars obviously that’s going to piss me off so I don’t really
Yeah I don’t really blame him in that I mean they had a I thought they were having a good season and they’re an upstar team they’re they’re they’re a young team I’m sure they’ll get their together and they will be in the playoffs and maybe make a run for the
Super Bowl at some points but but yeah I mean that would rile me up as well but as far as what Tony KH said here about Jinder mahalu I mean he’s not wrong all right we can we can sit here and site that oh you tell
Cut should be a professional and a CEO and all this other that we have discussed before in the past yes it’s not the attitude and the behavior of someone who should be running his company should take on social media and he should go about worrying about what
Aw needs to do instead of what WWE is doing on Monday Night Raw all right hold up hold up I want to say that there is a massive playoff game for the NFL on Monday night that WWE has to have direct competition with WWE just got finished dealing with another massive football
Game uh the national champ between Michigan and Washington that just happened last night so I think a lot of people are forgetting some things they put some other matches on that card there’s a world championship match we’re a couple weeks away from the Royal Rumble there’s a man with a briefcase
Kind of lingering could this match with Jinder get the internet wrestling community and some other Buzz here about maybe Damen priest cashing in because they can’t just say hey you might want to tune in to Raw because you never know when that Mr Money in the bank’s going
To cash in this is WWE doing right by potential viewership because they don’t want to just sit back and announce hey you guys might want not you know Miss Monday Night Raw because you never know Jinder might cash in because that gives it away yeah gives it away so yeah I
Mean that that’s that’s always a possibility and a big narrative going into the Royal Rumble for sure with Damen priest and that money in the bank uh but you know we could sit here andite that Tony khon’s behavior is not something that a boss should be doing uh
It’s been cited several times within the company that maybe he should have his phone taken away he should stay off social media this and that Tony KH is going to do what Tony KH is going to do and Tony KH is going to say what he what
He needs to say and you know the one thing that I appreciate and this is not me you know nut hugging Tony Khan but the one the the one thing that I appreciate about TK is that you know he’s very similar to how I operate when
I see something I don’t like I react and that’s what he does he wears he he wears his heart on his sleeve leave and you know exactly what he’s thinking in the time that he’s thinking and he doesn’t hold any punches I appreciate him in that aspect because a lot of people
Don’t really do that and I I kind of like that in a person secondly you know outside of all the he shouldn’t do that is he wrong he’s not wrong you know and and he’s got a gripe with whatever was said about him on social media you know
We sit here and we almost forget drew that Eric Bishoff almost on a weekly basis called out Vince mcmah and battled WWE during the Attitude Era and did a a ton worse than what Tony Khan is doing on social media it’s almost as if fans forgot to have fun with social media and
They always go and think oh my God it’s the end of the world for aw how can he do that Tony Khan should be fired and he needs to be removed and he should get off social media I’m like but bishof was on live television calling out Vince
McMahon we had tanks driving to Arenas W with with both companies battling each other calling each other out I mean where’s the fun where’s the fun it’s there you can’t have fun anymore you know that everyone’s got to be PC and business and all this other stuff and realistically you know again
Here’s the deal um if social media was around with bishof and Vince oh I don’t know I don’t know that would have been interesting to see but I will say this I mean what is you know you know Tony you know the whole like gu’s one of us all
That other stuff yeah I mean that’s that’s good and well um but I do believe Tony is looking to get Dynamite trending and realistically homecoming for them they’re going to have a soldout crowd it looks like at D’s place in Jacksonville I love that building uh they want some
Viewership Adam Copeland’s wrestling in a meaningless eight-man tag but it’s not meaningless because you know he’s on the card and stuff like that so it’s stings wrestling and now you know the continuation I mean we’re gonna hear from Joe so is Joe gonna talk about what
Hook said and why you guys gripe about everything oh aw does a bill K anybody they don’t tell stories now we got this 24y old kid calling out the champion we all know Hook’s going to get his ass beat not going to win the World Championship but it’s a step in the
Right direction let some of these younger talents get up the card have a world title shot I mean there were times on Dynamite when some Jabron from dark who was undefeated got a world championship at Kenny Omega and we all knew the outcome wasn’t going to be a
Victory for said Jabron but you know that’s how they’d view things I think the wins in losses in professional wrestling mattering that much or asinine but wins and losses do matter but they don’t matter to the effect of like professional sports does so but again what is Tony supposed to do hey don’t
Watch your it sucks you know you made a good point about hook you know Hook is somebody that a lot of people have taken a liking to I can tell you right now and this is uh 100% factual information uh people in the company are are concerned sometimes
When a youngster like hook gets an opportunity has it taken away from him he takes a seat on the back burner and then it takes a while for him to get back in the spotlight again after being featured so heavily and now Hook is getting a championship match against
Samoa Joe who just beat the longest reigning world champion in company history and you have a problem with hook who went 28-1 yes you could sit there and claim that Hook’s beating jobbers and no bodies and this and that but if Tony wants to take 28 wins and put it up on a
pedestal then let him do that you know we’ve asked for more Sports presentation Tony’s giving us more of a sports set presentation seemingly looks like Tony khong can’t win when he’s delivering on all of the wants and desires from his own fan base and when he does it there’s still a
problem right but what do you guys want I’m confused you want swerve in this match against Joe so what Joe could lose or swerve could lose who said that no I’m just saying like who do you want Joe’s first title defense to be against you want it to be against swerve
Or you want it to be against hangman page where there’s a a real possibility that this this rain that we just got from Joe after we just knocked off the most dominant aw world champion since Kenny Omega like that’s what we want to do no all right so we get hook in a
Program it’s good for hook visibility on hook we could see what the kids got against the world champion the best in the business for aw and you know I don’t think Hook’s G to get squashed you know you got a guy like Joe who wrestles almost like his dad Taz not Joe’s dad
Hook’s dad like Taz um but obviously Joe’s bigger and all that other stuff and you’re blending those two together I’m here for that match I’ve always enjoyed hook and I don’t enjoy hook because he’s a Long Island Guy and because I grew up you know loving watching Taz just be something different
In the wrestling world I enjoy hook because he’s unique I enjoy abdon because she’s unique wrestling is about the stories it is not another 100 $1 bomb love it here uh it is not about who you like it is not about your personal opinion truthfully because there’s some guys and girls that that
Just not for me but that doesn’t mean that they’re not for the masses wrestling is a for it’s for the masses it’s not just for mine and JD’s taste now just because I come on here and talk and I’m knowledgeable and everything else like that like I you got
People on social media you have people on these channels YouTube Everything dissecting a wrestling match and handing out five star you know ratings and all this other stuff when none of them have taken a bump it’s asinine I’m not it’s asinine I’m not gonna sit here and critique a man’s work
Ethic i’ or a work rate I’ve been in a ring I’ve taken bums but that does not qualify me as a main event Superstar listen we can’t we can’t critique anything until we get Brad hot on the telephone okay but I’m just saying like
We for people to sit back be like yeah I wish he went left when he went right there shut what what this was too much for me oh it’s too much for you because you’ve done this You’ put together a match you can’t if you’re GNA come on
Here and critique something critique it but don’t critique the work rate of these guys and girls because realistically you don’t know what it’s like to put together a match and you’ve never done it just because you’ve watched something for 35 years doesn’t mean you’re an expert I’ve watched
Football my whole life the NFL’s not calling my phone all right listen you know you’re not wrong you’re not wrong I mean you me and everybody else that does this thing on here shouldn’t be critiquing moves and and whatnot you know I’ll call it out if it doesn’t look
Good or or or the or if the match was bad like I like you and me know a good match from a bad match I mean some critiques go way too far I don’t think we go that far no but but at the end of
The day W with what Tony Khan did here before we get into what else was said because then he went back and forth with Bishop off and Tony Khan at the end of the day you know he’s got his own problems Drew you know he’s critiquing something that WWE is doing here with
Rollins and Mahal and I want to be fair to both sides Tony is right in what he said but he’s also got no room to critique because what he’s what he’s calling out you know on social media he’s he’s very guilty of and I’ve called it out way too many times
Putting random matches on TV how many random matches has orange Cassidy had with the International Championship he’s just now doing it with Eddie Kingston and the Continental Title we saw a fatal four-way on Dynamite where none of them deserved an opportunity to go after Eddie Kings and
Like what the did they do to win an opportunity to get to Eddie Kingston why are they in this match so Tony Khan is very guilty of doing the same thing that he’s critiquing Seth Rollins Triple H jind Mahal and wwe4 so he doesn’t really
Have much room to talk but at the end of the day is he wrong no he’s not no but but I think Tony does this on purpose because here’s the thing no one’s talking about Dynamite from DA’s Place nobody nobody is talking about this well they’ll be talking about if Mercedes
Debuts tomorrow well for sure and that would be awesome I think like that place is really special where they held a lot of shows in the pandemic it was all of them basically and it was where CM Punk when he was with the company said that
He wanted to you know be in that building and everything else like that that building has a lot of significant special meaning and it should be you know uh booked that way but I will say that nobody’s talking about a and maybe this is a way just G
To sit here maybe this is a way that Tony uh is diverting attention from the possibility of Mercedes debuting on Wednesday maybe he’s trying to get everybody talking about something else you know I don’t think Tony is this much of a like the people make him out
To be he’s not a at all but I’m saying the way that social media and everybody else you know uh perceives this man as like oh he’s a Mark he’s this he’s that listen Tony does things with a purpose he’s a billionaire for a reason and I know a lot of people are
Going to say well he’s father okay that fine dad gave him some money but you know Tony’s not a guys and I think he’s trying to get his product talked about because really nobody’s talking about Wednesday Night Live from D’s Place nobody everyone’s talking about the rock where he’s gonna wrestle
They’re talking about CM Puck in the Royal Rumble and they’re talking about Mercedes possibly showing up in WWE or aw no one’s talking about his programming on Wednesday you know it’ll you know that that is factual that is 100% true uh aw right now and this is something
That not only me and Drew worried about but everybody really worried about where was aw going to go with the devil storyline and where were they going to follow you know after that nobody really knows they got nothing after the Continental classic they got nothing after the devil reveal now MGF is
Supposedly going to be out for a while nobody knows where where they’re going with any of this so right now they are cold and they don’t have a storyline to carry their television outside Christian Cage Adam copelan which is great stuff but you know you can sit there and say
That about Tony Khan and I agree with what you said he’s trying to get people to talk about dynamite and the one part I do agree on that is he would have never mentioned hook at all hook is not on social media’s a tweet or or anything on social media but he did
Directly mention hook so if you guys really want to Deep dive and go into this thinking about you know dissecting what Tony Khan said he mentioned hook and he added hook specifically he was selling Dynamite while also at the same time trying to get one back at the people that
Made fun of him the last 48 hours so like Drew said it’s all about a business you know mindset and like Drew always says on here you know Triple H Nick Khan they play chess they don’t play checkers Tony Khan right now I don’t know what
The game he was playing but he was playing something and he tried to get people talking about Wednesday night because he specifically mentioned hook I think there’s it’s two sides right I think Tony has um some meaning towards his tweet like you guys give these a break but you won’t even cut
Me a little bit of slack and he’s also like hey tune in to Dynam on Wednesday because I know if I go look real quick let’s just see I’m gonna go look at Tony’s bring this up so I could just I’m gonna break this down for you almost
Like I’m a teacher at school here um where are we here five hours ago and that bothers him though you know he’s like you guys want to make fun of me about this but I’m going to call you out on this because it’s the same thing 4.5
Million impressions on X his last tweet before this basically saying hey five years ago and then we’re going to be at D’s Place 215,000 4.5 million 215,000 then his next tweet which was directed at USA Network is 2.1 million we’re looking at 6.6 million impressions and then two
Hours ago just mess around with good old easy Eric Bishop 293,000 Tony knows how to get the people going he’s not a on so what he did is he got 7 million impressions talking about how it’s okay for WWE but it’s not okay for us and hey you want to know
What do need a dynamite Gotta Give the man some credit he knows how to stir the pot gets the people going and I thank him because we have something to talk about here on TNT so thank you TK absolutely you know is it uh is it
Behavior that a CEO a boss should be taking is it something that is it something that his roster should look at as like yeah Tony C he’s he’s a rebel it’s like no sometimes it looks like he’s an harassment sometimes he says a little bit too much maybe they should
Let the product speak for itself but listen you know Tony Khan only has he only has a good good meaning in his heart and that’s exactly what he was doing in the time of this tweet is he wrong you could say he’s wrong and I’m
Not going to sit here and tell you that you are wrong if you think that but he certainly isn’t wrong when describing what WWE did with Jinder Mahal and Seth Rollins I mean we got people out here saying that this is WWE booking Seth Rollins as a strong champion
Sure but Jinder Mah Jinder Mahal hasn’t been on TV in a year why are we giving out Championship matches like they’re candy at the candy store nobody should be just getting Championship matches all but Seth Rollins is a baby face blah blah blah stop making excuses
For terrible creative I said this for years Jinder people are thinking that this is long-term storytelling why because Jinder Mahal and Seth Rollins wrestled 10 years ago for the NXT title stop using long-term booking as a crutch for you thinking that you know what you’re talking about because you’re a
clueless Mark it’s not long-term booking it’s a happen stance and it’s a throwback it’s not long-term booking stop my my funny the funniest comparison I’ve seen recently is like yo when Roman Reigns and punk lock up they did this at Raw homecoming retro raw with Piper they
Were in Portland I think Punk and when Roman Reigns lock up that’s like 10 years the story shut up you think that it’s not this reiteration it’s not this version of Roman Reigns that was the shield version of Roman Reigns and the two guys they thought were going to be
Bigger than Roman Reigns turned out not to be bigger than Roman Reigns so yeah like the well they did this for the NXT Championship that nobody that no no no I remember the match man who remembers it meither and I want to touch on what JD just said here he said that
You know is it something that you know he should be doing as a business you know professional as an owner would I take this approach no I would never let you know I want you to know this I would never let you know that I I’m watching your that thoroughly I would never
Do it and I would never tweet something like this because I don’t give a what you’re doing I got to focus on my stuff I gotta focus on all these things that I’m trying to put together I gotta focus on all that because you want to
Know what I don’t have time truth I have no time to worry about what you guys are doing because you guys are light years ahead of me light years it’s ridiculous they said the same thing about Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns 2 by the way when Rollins wrestled Reigns at the
Royal Rumble oh it’s long-term booking no it’s not they haven’t they haven’t cross paths in four years they only did it because Roman Reigns needed a opponent they’re doing this because Rollins needs an opponent and like Drew said money in the bank may be cashing on Monday and we’re all we’re
All forget about Jinder Mahal anyway because it was a nothing match to begin with so it’s like let’s just say Punk cost I’m just giving you a scenario I’m not saying this is gonna happen let’s just say Punk costs Seth the championship on Monday and the whole
Internet is a bust because WWE is going to need something for that playoff game I’m not saying they go this route I’m just saying punk C set Championship on The Road to WrestleMania Jinder wins and then all of a sudden and it’s a beat down all this other stuff and Damen
Priest Cashes in wins the championship because nor priest has declared his eligibility for the rumble and Seth doesn’t have a goddamn opponent so what are we doing here and Drew McIntyre sitting right there didn’t Drew announce himself for the rumble yes okay so Seth doesn’t have an opponent at the rumble
Guys and it’s not I don’t think the World Heavyweight Championship is going to be off the show I think we really need to pay attention to some devil in the details we we may we may be looking at a Adam Cen Edge situation against John Cena at the Royal Rumble remember
When he cashed in at New Year’s Revolution all those years ago he beat John Cena they got the rematch at the Royal Rumble John Cena wins it Edge had what a three- we Reign we may be looking at that for Damen priest Damen priest may be holding the world championship
For about two weeks before Rollins gets it back again I’m just saying they need a little jol for Rollins they didn’t want to pull Rollins in Punk at the rumble I get that they put Drew McIntyre CM Punk Cody rhods they have nothing yet for um priest Andor Balor who I believe
Are fighting each other at WrestleMania if not in the singles maybe a tag with the other members of Judgment Day but I think jum uh Judgment Day is imploding and at WrestleMania we either get the singles or the tag match we got to get there and that Brie that briefcase has
Got to come off priest so if they’re not going to do the screw job with the briefcase where the thing’s not in the briefcase because of uh Finn and JD how do we get there they’ve also slowly shirted truth into this thing and if you look at Damian priest’s tweets he’s like
This one got me and Ria doesn’t like the fact that truth’s around but priest does there’s a lot of little things that Triple H and all these booking guys do and girls that you guys don’t pick up on because you’re so focused you have tunnel vision yeah on some other things
Truthfully they what is Rollins doing at the rumble he’s the world champion we were we were talking about maybe McIntyre that’s now out of the question because McIntyre announced himself for the Royal Rumble so we may be looking at a Damen priest versus Seth Rollins match
With the Royal Rumble with it being the primary reason or direction for the Judgment Day uh them being imploded even further so you know it’s all you know and that’s what Triple H does he weaves in a couple of different story lines all all together at the same time and mixes
Them in together so we may be looking at a situation like that because like Drew said what is what is Rollins you’re going to leave him off the Royal Rumble and if Rollins doesn’t doesn’t lose the championship at the rumble or excuse me on Raw who does Rollins face at the
Rumble we got Drew in they’re just gonna run it back with Jinder Because the Internet would love that right no no I I don’t want to see that so then what is no one’s answered me this and I’m not talking about you I’ve asked other what
Is Seth doing at the rumble nobody seems to know I think that’s alarming yeah that is very alarming uh Tony Khan he said what he said one fan replied to Tony KH saying Tony forgets that he literally gave abdon a title shot after being off awtv for over a year the same
Exact situation as Jinder Eric bishof chimed in and he’s been very vocal about Tony Khan very often himself he replied is this true Tony or is this another one of your Bots uh Tony KH replied reading is your friend Eric no not true at all abdon returned to aw then they won a
Fatal four-way match on TNT against other great wrestlers to earn a title shot which is completely different than someone going a full year losing every match they’re in Plus getting a title shot got without a single win Eric then replied oh kid my reading comprehension skills are wizard likee by the way that
Was one of Dave meltzer’s Wicked comebacks whenever he’d get called out on his coincidence or are you really that deep melzer saw this and he said to Eric bashof sorry I prepped you for that lansburg interview where you made the claim about how you average 5400 tickets sold the prior year and
Bragged about it the guy didn’t have Hogan flare savage or Piper and has double ticket sales and equaled your number one of us actually studies numbers the other calls names because he can’t remember nor has any research capabilities I don’t know what’s going on here tonight man then Mahal gets
Involved he hasn’t tweeted in over a years like who the is hook Taz joins in he’s hook in capital letters I mean it was just all over the place man it’s like I I know we were starving for a little content because it’s pretty slow until the Royal Rumble but this is
Not really the type of com uh content that I want to dive into honestly I would just rather it uh be good for WW and good for aw well I mean but it’s it is content and I agree with you it just seems like when everything’s calm uh
Somebody drops you know a giant boulder in the ocean so I mean I I I get it um Eric just tweeted about 13 minutes ago somebody uh tweeted at him and said big difference I took my shots head-to-head no spin no dirt sheet intern ranking system just real competition not from
The sidelines ly crying foul whenever he needs attention Eric I listen I I have always enjoyed your perspective on the business you one of the few people who I sit back and I absorb from um you Dave hero and some others that I’m not going
To name on here because I’m not GNA name drop but even though I dropped two um I I just I I think this is like very a thin line you’re walking um from my perspective because we don’t know how you would have acted on social media I
Don’t know how Vince would would have acted on social media we really don’t so to sit back and be like I don’t know if I would it’s very easy to say that now you know it is so I don’t know I don’t know yeah I uh I don’t know what else to
Add uh in this particular instance all I will say is this if anybody in aw is listening if if Tony Khan himself is listening I would like you to take what you said here and prove everybody wrong and stop booking week to week and booking random noname title matches because what you
Called out theoretically you do every single week and none of it makes any sense and I’ve sat here for five years and called it out every single time and none of it’s ever changed you know me and Drew and me and Jesse and myself when I’m here alone have said
Differentiate your championships and do the thing that we all wanted you to do and that’s make aw the alternative the more you do what you are doing now in this case just like WWE is doing with Mahal and Seth Rollins you’re no better so fix it and change the narrative here
And do what they supposedly are not doing for your own show that’s all I’ll say h but hook called out I know I’m not talking specifically about Hook’s situation I don’t give a about hook like I want an opportunity for hook but yeah I I listen I you know I I like Tony
Uh Khan I think he has brought something to the wrestling business that has been missing for for decades but I agree with you um I don’t want him to change though like I I don’t want Tony to be fake he doesn’t need to uh tweet every Tom Dick
And Harry or he doesn’t need to fire back at people who realistically you know or try and justify his reasoning it’s his it’s my reasoning you don’t like it go watch something else you know I I just don’t think he needs to explain himself I it’s that it’s our generation
Though he’s my age like we we have to OV explain ourselves to people and I have started to stop doing that I if you don’t like something I’m putting out you don’t like what I’m saying you don’t like my My Vibe fine I’m not going to sit here and explain
Myself to you this is who I am this is our company this is how Tony should look at this is what we do this is why we’re better than WWE in this aspect or that aspect if you don’t like it watch something else how tough is it not to
Get into an explanation with somebody when you know that you’re 100% right in this case I know we talked about about it a little bit ago you know Tony gets into it with these Geeks online and he’s trying to explain to people that you know aw has stories and they do have
Stories are they better than what WWE is doing now I mean it’s all subjective it’s all up in the air you like them you like aw whatever as long as you’re watching pro wrestling but but but people say that aw doesn’t have stories and Tony gets bothered by that and this
Was in the time when we were in the middle of Adam cin and Christian and then we had mjf and the devil mjf and Adam Cole you got swerve coming along you got the Continental class there’s six or seven different stories in the tournament itself and people are
Still telling Tony oh you don’t have any stories on TV if I’m Tony Khan I’m pissed at that too and it’ll take every fiber of my soul to not get into an argument with these what are you watching like watch the show there are stories right in front of
Me why do I need to explain myself yeah again you know the one thing that I will say about to that comment like Bishoff does uh have a lot of Merit here is Bishoff would have never Justified anything he was doing to any of us he wouldn’t give a and I
Don’t think Tony just like Vince didn’t I don’t think Tony needs to I understand Tony wants to be like the um the wrestling fans promoter but he already is and he doesn’t need to continue to try and get people to understand his vision or aw’s Vision
You’re either with us or you’re not and we’re not going to be able to like convince you overnight so stick with the stories stick with what you think is working and you you know try some other things I applaud aw truthfully because they went from World’s End which was on
Long Island at the nasau Coliseum we all attended and they hit the reset button on a lot of things and that takes a lot of balls aw reminds me a lot I’m gonna say this and this I might catch some for it but I don’t care aw reminds
Me a lot of WWE in 1996 they were in flux they didn’t know what to do wcw’s kicking the out of them in 96 97 and they hit the reset button with the new generation and they push stars that normally weren’t going to get pushed and
Everything else they had to let that Old Guard go and I really believe that if Tony wants to differentiate himself and separate himself from WWE realistically they need to do take a page out of that book and I think that they’re starting to a little bit I really believe that
And Warner Brothers Discovery just touted aw success all over their you know their earnings call and everything else like that so you know the WWE fans you know I don’t know if they’ve been with the company for for the duration if you just started watching yesterday if
You’ve been like me and been watching since I was 4 years old you know the WWE fans don’t realize how lucky they are every single one of you you should you should be counting your blessings if you make this out to be the only thing that you live for WWE versus
Aew Paul L versus Tony Khan you don’t realize how fortunate that you are that you got Paul Le in the position that he’s in right now with 100% career control for years you had to eat slop Drew and I had to eat slop doing the RAW reviews and talking
About this when none of it made any sense 51 weeks out of 52 weeks in the year when Vince McMahon was there so you don’t know how lucky you are to have the that you’re getting now and you’re still giving Tony Khan because of Tony KH and Triple H and this
Narrative that you created Vince gave you for how long and you sat there and ate it and you still gave Tony KH now he’s still getting I don’t understand that narrative yeah look that hey you know what I’ve heard of the JD rants I finally saw one live and In Living Color
So I I I love it I love the fire that you bring and that’s the truth there were some times man when we would watch WWE and it was garbage until January right after the rumble is when started started to pick up and then April
May and then all of a sudden in July we got a little bit it was good in August then it fell off again I mean there was a lot of times where you were booking you know you were and you’re watching and you were like what is this what is
This and even in 95 96 some of the that you were watching then man I watched every single week man mind blown about what I was watching me too and you go back and watch it now and you’re like what what was this but we were kids you
Know I just think that you know um we’re in the first of all I want to say thank you to the almost 3,000 people that are watching us live but I want to say that we it’s the insant gratification society and that’s just what we’re in right now everyone wants
Their their matches now their dream matches now they want the story line started and finished now wrestling is about the storytelling that’s what it’s all about if the stories aren’t good no one’s gonna watch let people cook as the kids like to say yeah let them cook so be
Grateful for what you got because m a year ago when Vince maintained control over the company and everybody was well I thought Triple H was in charge he wasn’t Vince was always there pulling the strings in the Shadows now Triple H is there and you’re about to
See what ww truly made of which you know is the reason why Drew and I and everybody else maintained watching WWE because we knew the potential that they had and where they could be but we were hoping that maybe it’ll change this week maybe it’ll change that week and Vince
Never gave a about what we had to say or what we wanted Tony Khan does and now Triple H also does and now we’re eating good on on both sides and you people still complain yeah if you don’t like what WWE is putting out you had you have aw and when I was
Growing up like if I didn’t like Live Wire Sunday morning Superstars okay I’m dating myself um you know or um the wrestling classic or anything else like that we had WCW Saturday night or we had Monday Night Nitro if you didn’t watch Raw you didn’t like raw there was a
Bunch of different things that you could watch and WCW was edgier than WWF at the time until WWF decided we need to go to attitude and then it was like holy this is basically Jerry singer South Park mixed into wrestling it was wild so you guys really don’t know how good you
Have you have two viable companies one has a 50-year head start and his Lighty years uh ahead of the other one in my opinion some of the production values and everything else like that but man be thankful that Tony and aw’s trying just to be thankful yeah it’s the alternative
For you guys and girls it’s what it is it’s the same thing with Mercedes Monee we’ll get into her a little bit because I know Andrew zarion on um his uh Observer podcast was talking about it again today he just he was just befuddled about how people are making it
Out to be you know Mercedes being back with either company is a great thing what the you get M of me for who gives a where she goes we all win we all win just like CM Punk being back in professional wrestling I’m telling you wrestling is
Better with punk in it I will say it Tampa if I’m called on for a question CM Punk the professional wrestling Sports entertainment is better with CM Punk in it and it is better with Mercedes Monae in it I understand to some people she’s
Not a draw and you want to know what she goes to aw are we gonna get million plus every week probably not probably not but I still think having Mercedes Monae in professional wrestling and sports entertainment is what’s best for business absolutely uh before we get
Into the next story here we’re going to continue with the aw stuff there’s some big uh hires in aew I want to shout out my two guys here Billy saizan and my guy Jason Barker for both of them giving 100 in Super Chat tonight you guys are absolutely awesome Billy and Jason $100
Bombs Jason says JD Drew I love talking with you drew on Twitter spaces very good conversations he says OTS for life thank you uh Jason as always and Billy says JD and Andrew you guys kick ass every week the best in the IWC tomorrow night Dynamite do we finally see the
Monee OTS family for Life yeah thank you Billy and Jason for the 200 there uh unbelievable support and we love both of you guys thank you so much uh Drew we got thank you we got a major hire today from aew or it was at
Least it was a news piece coming out of aw today this is from fightful uh fightful has learned that several within aew have been notified that kosha Herby will be joining the company possibly in a COO role Herby is a former Regional director of live events for WWE he’s
Also worked with the Memphis Express of the aaf as president Clemson Tigers as executive senior associate ad and chief marketing officer he’ also had done work with Georgia State University of South Florida and St Louis aw lost Roth morphy uh Dana Massie and QT Marshall and a
Variety of roles that they uh that they have filled since the early uh stages of the company however Tony KH left the door open working with them in the future and said publicly that they’d have some new announcements coming very soon so Tony Khan is uh going right for
The I would say the sports Centric role here he got someone who worked previously uh in WWE here which is always a good thing so they’re coming in with a ton of experience and uh losing uh those individuals that I mentioned QT obviously more of the uh trainer and
Part of the training aspect Dana Massie was uh merchandising and then morphe was uh Live Events so it looks like Tony Khan’s making moves to fill those roles which he needs to and you know the thing is is that there’s a a large gap that Tony needs to fill and he’s going
To you know hire the right people and WWE hired somebody to Phil Kevin dun shoes as well there’s been a lot of big hires and for me you know um Tony has always really put some good people in good positions and this is just another example for me truthfully yeah Sports
Based too which is huge you don’t just want to take somebody cold or somebody who’s done something you know this guy knows what to do how to shoot how to book buildings all that other stuff so you know it was uh it’s funny how a lot
Of people were like aw is all Elite friends wrestling or all friends wrestling you know that that’s what it felt like in the early stages that’s what I heard from a lot of people who knew some people that were doing dark matches there and getting opportunities there now Tony Khan is seemingly like
You said Drew earlier starting to hit the reset button it takes a lot of balls to do that and he’s moving people out of these positions that you didn’t think would you know typically be replaced in those positions and Tony Khan is going for more experience he’s going with you
Know like you said a more Sports Centric uh Vibe here and he’s putting people in there with experience so you know he’s filling those roles and he’s doing what he needs to do to make the company better and and you can’t really SN uh slight that at all so I’m happy that
He’s making these moves honestly no and I think Tony you know comes under a lot of scrutiny for some of the risks that he doesn’t take and now he takes risk and it’s like oh you’re you’re an idiot you know like Hey listen Everyone likes to hire their buddies and their you know
Their family I get it it’s people taking care of people I get it but you know uh Tony’s got to do its best for aw and realistically like people need to stop like being tribalistic towards letters they just need to understand that wrestling is wrestling and sports entertainment is sports entertainment
And it’s all a business and Tony needs to do its best for his business and if hitting the reset button is that then hit that reset button Tony Kevin Dunn you mentioned Kevin Dunn and his replacement Triple H seemingly has found that replacement ww announced that media industry veteran Lee fitting has joined
The company this week as head of media and production taking over many of the responsibilities that were handled by Kevin dun Lee is a phenomenal leader in the ex known for work that generates both critical Acclaim and Mass Appeal says Nick Khan Lee will be a tremendous addition to our Stellar media and
Production team and play a key role in helping catapult WWE’s growth says Nick Khan according to a press release fitting brings more than two decades of production experience to WWE from ESPN where he oversaw production for tent pole properties including Monday night football college game day and college football playoffs and many other
Properties within the Disney portfolio I wonder if that has anything to do with what may come down the line Dr get uh your take on that in a second but uh my initial reaction is this a we talked about Kevin Dunn being replaced or quitting last week I think
It’s a great move for him to get out uh I think he was of the Old Guard and I think a lot of people who still associate ww with Vince McMahon will do that no longer because as long as Kevin Dunn was there there was always it was
Always a hope that Vince would return or assume some sort of power now that Kevin Dunn is out you know for sure that it is the Paul L show and how much this is I guess this is a question for you because this is something that I was pondering
Kevin Dunn had his way Kevin Dunn had his uh his little ways of doing things on wwtv you know that Kevin Dunn was a part of it the way that he shot the camera cuts the the way things kind of flowed on TV are Are We Now open to
Seeing some potential change not that we’re going to change everything but dun laid the groundwork for 40 years and now maybe they build upon that and slightly Give WWE a different taste and a different feel which honestly from a fan watching from four years old could realistically be something that would be
A great addition to their TV show because I I think some aspects of their show definitely needs to change so you mean to tell me that since you were four up until now you’ve not seen change in WWE’s production no no I mean I I yes
Obviously I have but I mean I’m talking about within the last 10 years 15 years it’s been basically the same thing the way shot overproduced it’s too glossy I I don’t think those aspects are going to change but maybe the way that it’s shot different you know Tony Conan is adding
That little high camera now to Collision and dynamite gives it a little aspect gives it a little bit more Sports Centric feel can we see some subtle changes to the cam work on TV is what I’m saying yeah I mean I think that Triple H’s crew um will probably be more
Open to different aspects of shooting a building or shooting an entrance or something to that effect you know the good thing about paulc Triple H is that he actually was a big star in the professional wrestling business a massive star so he will be able to the nuances and the different things that
Could help you know make somebody else a star or enhance their star power he’ll be able to do that both in the ring and I believe outside in production the thing about Kevin dun and Vince McMahon though you know they were very much entertainment focused and they really
Gave you movies at times with the production and the production has always for WWE been so clean that at times you’re like Jesus it’d be nice for a little bit of grittiness but it’s this the production that has gotten them billions of dollars in media rights and
Everything else like that so I think you might see more of the lines of you know what we saw backlash of Bad Bunny with the Drone yeah I think you could see some of that sure I think I think WWE now might be more open to that and also
Depends on who they put in the chair truthfully in Kevin Dunn’s chair uh his former chair what they want to do but again you know Kevin and Vince Kevin D and Vince mmah were were very much revolutionaries and Pioneers I understand the last you know seven eight
Years were awful at times but you know realistically um I think the person that gets in there next has a really good foundation for them and it’s their job to uh build a beautiful house on that does the uh fact that Mr uh lee fitting worked within many Disney properties is
That uh a foreshadowing of what’s to come being that uh that’s in his portfolio or is that uh just a mere coincidence there uh there’s no such thing as coincidence you know that I know that um and everybody else watching this hopefully understands that I do believe that you know uh it’s very
Easy for somebody who knows the ins and outs of Disney ESPN etc etc to be there now because again I’ve said this a million times this is chess mother effers this is not Checkers and what they’re doing is they’re moving their kings their Queens their Knights their pawns into the positions because two
Three years from now those ples in that Library might be on espm plus yeah and who better who better than that guy to know what they want and what they need and how they need it done so there you go there you go speaking of uh ESPN and
Streaming services the news this week and I thought it was ridiculous when I read it but it’s all speculation at this point but we got to talk about it WWE we was predicted Drew to land on Amazon Prime by the sports Business Journal it’s a prediction by the way guys so
Don’t go cliping and say oh JD said they’re going it’s a prediction oh well they said it was going to warning now they’re saying it’s going to Amazon no it’s a prediction idiot prediction by the sports Business Journal they predicted raw’s new home will be none other than the streaming platform Amazon
Prime video the reasons given were raw strong numbers with the young mailes a demo Amazon is looking to grow in and the opportunity for streaming services to obtain more live content to go along with Thursday Night Football was also predicted that raw would remain on Monday nights should Amazon secure the
Show Amazon has often been reported to be in play for raw’s rights though it has frequently been behind cable channel FX long considered the favorite to land raw or Warner Brothers Discovery a scenario where raw lands on FX as part of a package deal involving Disney and
The TKO group is believed to be in play and would be uh related to ESPN renewing its current deal with the UFC however its thought said scenario would only become uh viable if raw was unable to fund the right money value in a new deal
Now I did make a video on this earlier Drew and I’ll leave the floor mostly to you but what I said earlier was two things one WWE loves to be in that boat where they did it first outside everybody else so I don’t really know outside Thursday Night Football I don’t
Really know what other weekly live episodic 52 weeks a year television show is being streamed on a streaming service that is giving fresh new content weekly with no offseason nobody’s doing that but no nobody’s doing that but WWE yeah and the NFL doesn’t do 52 weeks out of
The Year either you know um yeah Amazon will get a playoff game peacock’s getting a playoff game and Amazon does the September through de December um Thursday Night Football so and here’s the thing again I’ve said this a million times here’s the deal WWE produces live television 52 weeks out of the year
Which is every once a week every week there’s no other entity doing that besides aw yeah and some other wrestling companies and it’s live content so there’s going to be a ton of suitors I’ve said this before on X I put out a little bit um I was at the Forefront of
The whole social um you know putting it out on social media and seeing the streaming platforms and the streaming media right buyers be heavy players with the NFL and some others do I CWB doing this they could to JD’s point they always like to be at the Forefront they
Used to beat the NFL to venues for Wrestlemania so they could tout it was a Vince McMahon thing but they could tout that they held the attendance record for that building you know they were first hey we went to Cowboys Stadium AT&T Stadium before the Super Bowl was there
You know that type of stuff which I don’t know if they technically did but they broke the attendance record Vince was very much at the Forefront of that and they like to be the first but I will say this this is like taking Monday Night Football Andor Sunday Night
Football and putting it on a streaming only platform while I’m saying it’s not down the pipeline eventually I think if WWE was going to do this type of move I would have moved Smackdown I would have moved NXT I I don’t know if I if I’m going to
Take because raw is and I understand that smackdown’s on Fox and they have the bigger Stars quote unquote but raw’s the flagship okay it really is so if you’re going to take that and put it to streaming only I know the death of cable is pretty much around the corner two
Three five years from now whatever but I don’t know if Now’s the Time but the other caveat to this is they have a responsibility which I stated to their shareholders they have to take the best offer truthfully now they could spin it where you know we didn’t think it was going to maximize
Our ability and all this other stuff but if Amazon’s offering $500 million a year and Warner Brothers Discovery is only worth you know offering 375 they have to take realistically I don’t know how they they justify not taking that would I move raw off no I wouldn’t I I think
You I want to say this as politely as I can um the wrestling demographic is not the wealthy demographic it’s not it I don’t care if you go look at it the the average income I could run the number for you but it’s boring they’re not the uber wealthy and you’re asking wrestling
Fans to now buy another streaming platform or something else to invest more money in so they can watch your product I don’t I hope you don’t lose the eyeballs it’s it’s tough and that was my next Point how many fans are going to look at this as a win for them because
I’m just basing it off my personal experience me to you guys I pay for cable I pay a monthly cable bill I got Verizon 5 I get my smackdowns I get my raws I get my impacts my AWS all all on on Verizon then you’re asking me to sign up for
Peacock which is $9.99 1099 whatever it is a month to watch the WWE PL then with the rumored streaming deal for aw you’re asking me to sign up for Max to watch their pay-per-views 12 per per year is what is being rumored over there which
Is going to be a great thing for Tony KH and company over there you’re asking me to do that then you’re asking me to watch something that I have access to now on weekly cable television via my cable package with prime I gotta go and watch Prime now to watch Monday Night
Raw And subscribe to Prime how much money do they think we we’re worth here I mean it’s it’s pulling the fans in multiple different directions and I don’t think fans are going to really kind of be jumping for joy over the fact that they got to pay another whatever a
Month to go watch Amazon Prime and watch Monday that raw and and again here’s the deal I’m already on Amazon Prime I already have the subscription because I have three kids uh I have a wife it’s sometimes you know we need things delivered directly to the house we can’t
Get out it’s very convenient although I like to support small businesses and everything else like that uh because I think that’s very big for communities I it’s just it’s tough not to have Amazon because everything’s at your fingertips and if I needed something in three hours
I can have that sucker delivered to my doorstep it’s convenient so I’m already there um I cut cable and I have YouTube TV thankfully the NFL Sunday Ticket went there because I will tell you that it was uh a yearly struggle to split the package with somebody because it was a
$500 a year cost for us and I need to watch the Jets so again you find ways to do it but I know WWE wants to dip their their hands into every pot and they should I just don’t know if right now is the move maybe you wait two three years
And wait till that next media rights deal comes up and then you could go to a Google throw it on YouTube TV exclusively you know the NFL did that deal with them and they’ve seen record revenues and all that other stuff I just don’t know for me I don’t care I don’t
Care because I have it already but I would feel for the people who you know uh buy cable to watch wrestling and now they there’s other things they watch then they got to cut that they gotta get Prime like JD said you gotta get peacock man those bills add up and I’m not
Crapping on the demographic it it adds up for a guy with three kids too you know it does yeah it’s uh it’s tough and I know the shareholders like Drew said they got to they got to keep the shareholders in mind do what’s right for the company do what’s right for the
Business I know Nick khon promised 50% increase with the smackdown deal they only got 40 they’re doing the same thing with Monday and not raw so they’re going to probably take if Amazon blows them away they got no choice but to go with Amazon if Amazon offers 450 you know uh
Whatever uh and Warner Brothers only offers 387 I mean who the they gonna go with they’re gonna go with Amazon right and I want to say this to you guys and girls in the chat I’m always Blown Away by your generosity I’m not calling anybody broke but I do
Want to say this too be careful with your illegal streamings because if WWE decides to take raw off of television and they put him on Amazon Prime good luck finding that sucker on an illegal streaming like site or something like those those are getting torched daily and they already they already took down
To watch wrestling streams I mean I’m I’m guilty of watching you know when I’m on vacation or I’m in Florida this and that I cable down there you know it’s uh it’s something that I go to I’m like I’ll watch Smackdown no commercials on the watch wrestling illegal stream
Those are going to be out the Windle you’re not getting no ww programming through those means anymore and there’s ways around that guys and girls I won’t divulge to you how we handle aw pay-per-views in this household it’s I could tell you that a bunch of us a
Couple of my buddies and we split it because that platform doesn’t give a how many people at times you have on I mean you probably can’t have 20 but I don’t have 20 people who want to watch an pay-per-view at this point anyway I’m
Sure if I you know sought it out but that’s my point there’s ways around it so you know I think you could split an Amazon subscription for Prime I think you can have like four people on it or something like that so there’s a way to
That’s a cost you know effective way to do things but if you think like you’ll be set with that fine streaming sites good luck good luck and like I said guys this was merely a prediction the people over at the sports Business Journal also predicted that Smackdown Raw and NXT
Would all land with nbcu and nbcu would buy out WWE obviously none of that happened but Smackdown staying on USA and nxt’s on the CW and right now raw is heavily in discussions about being landed on Warner Brothers Discovery so I mean it’s a prediction I don’t think
It’s going to happen but like Drew said I could definitely see it happening in the next round of TV talks when cable slowly starts to die off even more and WWE wants to be the first longest weekly episodic TV show to land on a streaming Network and and and bring that type of
Content to an or Disney or Hulu or wherever it wants to go yeah my prediction is WWE Raw goes to Warner Brothers Discovery my prediction is not wavered um I’m not going to change that prediction um I think the prime thing has a lot of smoke I think Hulu had a
Lot of smoke I think Disney and ESPN were very interested in this as well which is with with hulo um I I I just don’t think Warner Brothers Discovery is out just yet I think they’re very heavy players and I think that they’re going to continue to be heavy players even if
In their eyes they have to overpay a little bit and I do believe that if you look a lot of devils in the details here it you know Warner Brothers Discovery just praised aw up and down with their uh I believe it was their quarterly or whatever meeting they had I think that’s
To let some of the uh business people understand that wrestling is a viable product and if they got to pay for the A1 product I think they’re justified in doing so uh Tom Cruz just got a whole deal with Warner Brothers Discovery he’s goingon to have a studio there he’s
Going to have mov and stuff his production team’s going there Warner Brothers discover is not going anywhere yeah no my my prediction is just like you I am not changing on that I think uh if it doesn’t happen this month which a lot of people kind of speculating that
Was going to happen in the beginning of the year turn of the new year or uh this week uh I would say we get it before at least we may get it before the elimination chamber so I I that’s my prediction there wouldn’t that be the move the rock announces the raw rights
Yeah do that moving over to aw guys aw has seemingly confirmed negotiations with one Mercedes Monet for a company debut now obviously it’s not something that we should get excited about yet until a contract is signed and she makes her way to television but with that
Being said she has been in contact with the company that she was reported and she was reported to arrive uh on the show whether it was last week or what the reports said imminently aw’s in the picture and now there’s confirmation Mercedes and WWE had talks they
Apparently fell through as you guys know that’s no secret aw is in the running and has been in the running as fans expected it to debut for aw PW Insider reports that WWE sources noted that several factors including a change in ownership and the Triple H regime in
Place for Creative set the stage for the two sides to reset their relationship no unbelievable how that’s even wow man I didn’t know that of course that was the case it also set the stage for a potential return as they were told the company would absolutely
Love to have her back and have made that very clear and that at least early discussions between the sides have happened PW Insider reported that they have received confirmation that aew is in contact or has been in contact with Mercedes this comes after time when it was said that she and Tony Khan’s
Company weren’t discussing anything active about a debut then in an update since this initial report an aw sarch re reached out to say that the company has absolutely been in contact with Mercedes and said if you don’t think we are in the hunt you are crazy they just added
Dianna perazzo on Dynamite this past week from New Jersey and Andrew zarion who got death threats over this from the Mercedes stands on social media because apparently they don’t want her to go to aw who gives a where she goes if you’re a fan you’ll watch her no
Matter where she goes he says this just to add a little bit more to this story I have no clue when a debut was scheduled I was told very soon could be next week could be a few weeks out I have no Insight currently on a date then Shawn
Rossat tweeted at a fan he said not leaning towards expecting Mercedes is expected to go to aew now I have respect for sap in that he’s not going to put his name behind something to say something like that publicly without having prior knowledge of something and
The same thing with Zary he’s not going to put his name behind something and and then put that story out there or that tweet out there if he doesn’t have a prior know of what’s going on there so all signs Drew looking like Mercedes is
Headed to a and people are upset at this notion why here we go again like I just feel like it’s if it wasn’t Punk now it’s Mercedes all this other wherever she signs up wherever she shows up will be the spot and then either you can come
Out here and wave your aw flag or wave your WWE flag but at the end of the day none of this matters she’s getting paid she’s back on t that’s best for business and I urge you like to care about things that really matter in your life your health your family your job
Whatever but stop worrying about where this person or that person is signing realistically like the old like I do these people sign your checks like I just don’t get it death threats like Andrew should never go through that never like there are so many more important things in life than that type
Of crap and I’ve you know said it since November I believe Merc Monae is headed the a I believe the debut is imminent whether that’s Wednesday or maybe in Revolution I don’t know in March I don’t know but I I believe the debut is imminent and I
Think again Tony Khan doing what he did today on social media is leading me to believe that they might have something in the works for her at DA’s place and they’re trying to take some of that uh smell off of it that’s just me it’s a possibility Eric Bishoff chimed in on
The Mercedes situation and said that Mercedes Mercedes means nothing for aw business just like all X WWE signings that joined aw he said this in regards to Mercedes and I quote nothing I mean how many times have we seen big names come from WWE to aw and people
Speculating about how it’s going to impact the business and what’s going to happen nothing happens it doesn’t matter who you bring in there I made the comment and I’m going to make it again aw is quickly becoming TNA I got nearly a million views on that comment and out
Of that probably half a million responses everybody you know buried my comment and me along with it but this is a perfect example of what I meant we’ve seen so many big names come into aw pick one let’s put CM Punk off to the side
Pick any other one and the net impact on the growth of the business other than selling T-shirts has been zip NADA the television audience continues to deteriorate deteriorate while WWE continues to grow you look at their ticket sales outside of anomalies or outliers I should say like the United
Kingdom and they’re not doing nearly as well as they were in the past look at Dynamite shows check out wrestle ticks on social media and you could see their ticket sales they’re playing in 10,000 or 15,000 seat venues but they’re scaling them down to 4,000 and a week
Before the event still hav sold out it’s not going to matter end quote is he true is that right Dre is he is he correct there I mean I I think Eric speaks a lot of logic at times but I will say this I think Mercedes Monae helps that division
In aw uh I believe that she does um enhance that division which is in desperate need of that there are a lot of very talented women over there but um we’re you know besides a couple like you’re missing a big big star and I think this helps the other comment that
Bishoff made that to me is kind of like it’s asinine but it’s very to me it’s it’s kind of like Eric come on how many of these Mega stars that Eric had at his disposal because WWE at the time couldn’t resign or just didn’t want to because they were going in a different
Direction were able to go to WCW there’s no Hulk Hogan there’s no Scott Hall there’s no Kevin Nash there’s no Brett Hart there’s not even I’ll say there’s some Shawn Waltman that have jumped over they’re just not available because WWE has taken the time and the effort to
Make stars and resign Their Stars Okay so you know Eric was afforded a luxury a huge checkbook just like Tony has but a lot of these these guys WWE at the time WWF couldn’t afford aw is not this is not the same Battlefield it’s not and it’s unfair for the comparison I
Just call a spade a spade it’s not fair Hulk Hogan is that a Hulk Hogan as star is never GNA be made available to aw it just won’t happen there’s never going to be a star like Hulk Hogan or Randy Savage or or or or anybody in that realm
A stone cold a rock no nobody ever again as long as we’re alive no but what I’m saying is they’re not going to be even okay let’s just go Orton Batista theena uh Roman um I’ll use another like Seth none of them are going to be available to aw
It’s just not going to happen so do I think that aw hasn’t done right by a lot of the former WWE Stars they have look at Joe look at Sur swerve look at Tony St Co right even cage yeah I mean you might not like some of what they’re doing Copeland but
I mean they’re doing some things that they weren’t able to do or WWE wasn’t able was not affording them the opportunities and aw is that landscape for them this is not the same Battlefield Eric aw does not have the availability of meast stars that you had just because WWE was going through a
Financial tough time I’m sorry it’s just a horrible comparison Eric Bishoff has basically said a whole bunch of nothing nothing here though he he thinks he makes sense here in my eyes you know you he can say and sound as smart as he wants but you know I’m going to put CM
Punk back in the discussion he said let’s leave CM Punk off to the side I’m going to bring CM Punk and put him into the discussion here when punk was there Eric Bishop’s narrative was oh Punk is not helping the business Punk is uh he’s
No Hulk Hogan he’s no this he’s no that meanwhile we all know that CM Punk is still the biggest or was at least the biggest free uh free agent in the entire industry and right now may be the biggest name in the industry still currently so with Punk when he was in aw
It didn’t help aw there weren’t moving this they weren’t moving that it wasn’t helping attendance it wasn’t helping ratings meanwhile we all know how great CM Punk was for aw business every single metric CM Punk was at the top of it merchandise ratings pay-per-view buys
You name it he was at the top now that he’s in WWE his tune has changed oh my God what a what it’s already paying off and he’s not even there a month yet give me a break with the anti aew narrative now the same thing is with Mercedes he’s saying this about
Mercedes I guarantee you if Mercedes goes and joins WWE is in the Royal Rumble oh Mercedes is going to pay off brilliantly for WWE he’s always so one-sided it’s very difficult to take what he says seriously well and and I understand that um and to your like to
Your point I it it’s very flip-floppy at times but I think Eric uh learned from his mistake with CM Punk when the machine Gets behind you just like Cody rhods it’s a different scenario I again I just I like Eric a lot he’s very knowledgeable he’s always been nice but
I just don’t think it’s the same playing field it’s not you know um and Eric needs to understand that Sasha Banks is not you know Mercedes Monae who are you comparing her to that you signed I mean realistically all right let’s take another step back let’s go Cole and Joe right
If we had to compare them who are they I me does Eric even know who Sasha Banks is or what she’s done for the WW women’s wrestling would not be where it is today in North America without Sasha Banks without Mercedes ver anado fact yeah and
I and I understand to his point it’s like what okay so is this going to move the needles for the casuals no it’s not but again aw is not getting Dwayne The Rock Johnson aw’s not getting Brock Lesnar aw is I mean I was shock or Roman
Reigns yeah I was shocked that they Copeland truthfully I thought Copeland would probably I mean once the stuff started to happen I thought he’s going to go out on his own terms with his buddies and he’s going to be an artist over there but that type of star power
Magnitude really doesn’t happen it doesn’t flipflop anymore those days are kind of dead the wars are not there no disrespect to Adam Cole and Samoa Joe but they’re not Randy Savage Hulk Hogan h and Nash it’s not the same drawing power and I again it’s a horrible unfair
Comparison and Eric needs to understand that he was afforded a luxury let’s look at Mercedes as the glue that ties everything together here just to to end this this Eric Bish off Mercedes not going to make an impact discussion Tony Khan has already and like Drew said earlier and alluded to earlier there’s
Already been a reset button you know I’m not going to claim and sit here and claim that aew is you know changing this oh my God it’s been one one week I mean we can’t see true let’s take this to maybe Revolution to see how long he sticks with the plan but women’s
Division in aew right now if you want to just sit here and just kind of leave Mercedes off to the side they just signed di perzo who’s tremendous she’s a big name for the women one of the best women’s wrestlers in the entire world then they got Julia Hart they got
Sky Blue Thunder roses back we’re not even here on TV yet with with uh Jamie haer and Brit Baker on television statlander Ruby Soho whoever else you want to put in that discussion Serena Dee is on her way back to television Athena May be the best female women’s
Performer in the entire world bar nun then you want to add Mercedes to that I I I fail to see how that change that that doesn’t change AW Television I mean she’s going to be the glute to tie that alt together we may be looking at a whole new Revolution that’s not
Happening in WWE for the women so how does that not help help exactly and here’s what I’ll say right you know um obviously dirt different circumstances led to the downfall of WCW but a lot of people aren’t talking about this what separated WWE from WCW WWE went after
Perry Saturn Chris benois Chris Jericho Dean minko Eddie Guerrero they brought back Shawn Waltman they went after a lot of their midcard talent that ended up becoming superstars with the exception of a few and then they went to ECW and got Taz and The Dudley and all this
Other stuff and granted you know Taz probably didn’t have the run that anybody expected in WWE but WWE started the cherry pick workers from WCW isn’t that kind of what aw is doing from WWE yeah so I mean with all due respect I mean yeah all right
They get Mercedes Monae they get Tiana perazzo they’re getting people that could that could Elevate the division and they’re they’re going in a different direction than what WWE is you know this comparison you know people might play this clip back you know 10 years from
Now and say look what Drew and JD were talking about you know Drew was talking about how aw is really cherry picking workers that didn’t feel like they were getting what they needed in WWE because of the Old Guard or there’s a a log Jam at the
Top you it happens but aw is picking very solid workers and people who could draw to their product within the hopes of tackling a million viewers or maybe being viable competition WWE down the road I just think again for people to sit back and be like Mercedes isn’t
Going to do anything for a yeah she’s not going to bring in half a million views extra a week we we get that man we get it chick we get it we totally get it but you want to know what it’ll the work and everything else that goes on in that
That ring and the stories they could possibly tell will help the product eventually right that’s the hope you got to take a shot try it you got to take a shot you if you don’t take a shot on at least trying to bring her in you’ve already failed so I don’t want I
Don’t want I don’t want to hear that she’s not going to help if you don’t help yourself by at least trying to go get her the you doing in the business the best women’s wrestler maybe on the entire planet and you don’t want to go
Out there and try and get her and then then you want to say she’s not going to be a big deal she’s not going to be a big deal in in the way that you see her as a big deal but for social media she’s a movie star her social media presence
The fact that she just by her vibe herself I is a is a help to that women’s locker room I mean she started at all like just having her there without wrestling is going to be a help look at what she’s going to do for all
The younger talents like a sky blue and a Julia Hart you don’t think she’s going to help them mold themselves into being a better performer come on man yeah and that’s the thing you know like I see a lot of people and they’re like uh you
Guys said uh Sera was going to be a game changer first of all what do you guys know that Sera does backstage you don’t you have no idea you have no idea the wealth of knowledge that serea lends to the talent for the women backstage and
What to do here and what to do there there’s a difference I understand that maybe she hasn’t been booked right or maybe she doesn’t uh you know pull you on the television to like watch her okay but that’s when I if you go back and
Look at any of my tweets I said Sur was going to be a game changer for the wealth of knowledge that she possesses the same thing goes with Mercedes although I think Mercedes has a lot of tread on her tires and I think she will be able to elevate this women’s division
It’s a no-brainer for me if a town like this becomes available you go sign her I just logged into Twitter to see what was going on speaking of Eric bishof he’s still going at it this time he replied to our guy Ebu of wrestle purists IBU
Said you punched up to WWE the moment Nitro became a thing you hung your hat on taking shots at the competition and was very effective for WCW why do you object to Tony Khan doing what he did tonight big difference Eric bishof says I took my shots head-to-head no spin no
Dirt sheet internet ranking systems just real competition not from the sidelines constantly crying foul whenever he needs attention yeah I read this before yeah man I mean yeah it’s just it’s wild out here I don’t know what the is going on whatever man it is what it is that’s
Eric bishof and his uh his opinion for Mercedes Monee moving on to the rest of the news we got some X WWE guys showing up elsewhere we got Dolph Ziggler showing up for New Japan Pro Wrestling I was actually a big fan of this debut I
Loved the little movie thing he did the little vignette that he did he’s now a wanted man he joined New Japan and was spotted at new Japan’s wrestle Kingdom on Thursday alongside brother Ryan nth and he’s targeted the new IWGP Global Champion David Finley and uh they even
Had a brawl at the end of the show during their media press conference Drew what’ you think of uh Dolph AKA Nick nth now joining New Japan I think with what he did in WWE they didn’t really appreciate him the last few years that he was there I know he signed an
Extension 5 years ago in hopes that they would maybe see something different in him and they never really got the ball rolling with him I think his last match came as I see here on May 29th 2023 against JD MCD and before that uh he was uh working House shows losing to Omas
But that was it he hasn’t Wrestled a match since May of 2023 Nick n is one of the best in-ring performers in the entire world honestly I think what we think of him now he’s going to prove it in New Japan and elsewhere I think that’s a tremendous signing and I’m very
Happy for him I listen I wish the best for Nick I was so happy that I he didn’t just pop up in aw and be another Cog right now in that wheel um so yeah I think good on him he gets into a a main event program
With Finley out of the gate uh for that new Championship that New Japan Pro Wrestling has and I’m here for it truthfully um I wish Nick the best and I’m happy that he landed with New Japan Pro Wrestling instead of just going a Matt riddle also landed with mlw and he
Also will be working New Japan he challenged tooshi tanahashi at uh New Year’s Dash New Japan Pro Wrestling will be doing that match later on this year no time frame on when that will be taking place Matt riddle also wrestled Jacob Fatu at mlw uh and their kings of Coliseum Joan a
Show on January 6 which I thought was a great match um Matt riddle you know a lot has been made about Matt riddle and the reason why he left WWE or was fired I should say from WWE a lot of uh you know little behavioral issues some
Demons that he has to tackle and I know he says he’s going to kind of shed the the goofy thing and I know Vince highlighted Kevin Dunn highlighted the stoner thing in WWE but man if Matt R can tie all this together bro he could be one of the industry’s best in
Ring if he just just gets on track and focuses on pro wrestling um yeah listen Matt had some things that popped up in his personal life which I think you know at times are um overd dramatized but Matt riddle has an abundance amount of Talent Matt riddle
Will be fine wherever he ends up he’s just got to stay with a level head and make levelheaded decisions so that a multi-billion dollar company will continue to take chances on you so I think mlw some other places New Japan are good for him let his name kind of um
Settle down and then you know hopefully his name starts to get real hot we end he ends up back in either WWE or we see him in aw but I have nothing but the utmost respect for riddle and I wish him the best um I think at times you know
Things backstage would ever got blown out of proportion and it you know it just he was his Own Worst Enemy at times unfortunately speaking of uh New Japan Pro Wrestling there was a news article from The Observer where they stated that WWE May potentially be looking at another
Japanese Ally they’re working with all Japan though people and representatives in all Japan are kind of hesitant on the relationship or potential partnership there Triple H apparently Drew is looking at a potential working relationship with New Japan Pro Wrestling now WWE sent Regal Sun Charlie Dempsey over to all Japan to challenge
For their Triple Crown uh on January 3rd and now Meltzer is reporting that Triple H and President Nick Khan could be looking at New Japan Pro Wrestling as a potential ally Meltzer says there’s been talk internally of them trying to make another go with New Japan now that
Hiroshi tanahashi is the president aw New Japan have obviously a long working relationship that has become strong which has led them to doing the aew New Japan forbidden door pay-per-view for the last two years and that will continue this year in 2024 and they also allow uh a nice
Little Talent Exchange aw Talent Works New Japan and New Japan Talent Works aew Drew why does WWE now all of a sudden I know Vince McMahon kind of shut the door on working with anybody they didn’t really allow anybody in their sandbox they were very selfish but why now does
Triple H and Nick Khan want other allies in the world to pro wrestling when seemingly they are the hottest they’ve been in nearly 25 years WWE why not why not why not you know if if aw continues to try and take shots or to have Partnerships or whatever else
And drive business that way why wouldn’t WWE want to be open to that I think Triple H Paul has always been open to that I think there was a roadblock with Vince McMahon yeah he’s want he’s wanted to do it with NXT when he was in charge
Of NXT and they didn’t allow him to do that I know Jian liger worked one of the NXT shows the first Brooklyn show I believe he worked uh Tyler Breeze if I’m not mistaken and uh after that it was never seen again yeah and I think Triple
H knows that there’s more power with allies than there are with enem so I think that if he can get some of the star power that any company has working together maybe not you know aw because it seems like those two just you know it’s like WB and WCW although you
Know would have loved to have seen that back in the day it’s what would have been best for business they really can’t cross streams so um I think Triple H is smart to do this and I think he’s been open for for a long time but a lot of
Other companies couldn’t play in Vince sandbox it’s amazing man we could potentially see uh just thinking out loud I’m not saying this is going to happen anytime soon but you know WWE Talent working a Tokyo Dome show Randy working wrestle Kingdom or uh or uh who else over there Seth Rollins maybe work
In a wrestler Kingdom I’m not saying that they they’ll be in the G1 or that we’ll see an awwwe forbidden door at some point but I mean that would be pretty cool I mean that itself would probably be bigger than the forbidden door that aw’s got
Going on well and that’s the thing right I think WWE realistically probably lost Brian Danielson and some others because they wanted to work with Japan you know and so I think they wanted to work in New Japan and work some of that different style and stuff like that so
Now if Triple H can dangle that carrot for some of his Stars further down the road when they kind of want to wrap up their career and have that wrestle Kingdom match maybe they could have it now yeah that’d be pretty cool it’s smart and you got a lot of people that
Are WWE loyalist or people have never watched a wrestle Kingdom pay-per-view turn to that pay-per-view and buy it you know I I watched wrestle Kingdom but the first one I remember like clamoring for was Jericho Omega me too same thing so there you go couple other pieces of news
Here guys and then uh we will uh see your super chats unless Drew has anything that I haven’t discussed here mjf we got a news article here on MGF he could be out for close to a year if he decides to get shoulder surgery now we
Don’t know what MGF is going to do and I know aw still playing up the fact that he’s not signed they took him off the roster page they’re really playing up into the whole storyline that he’s a free agent but this was also in the Observer newsletter Dave Meltzer
Reported that mjf is hoping to have his injury heal through rehab rather than surgery because a surgery would put him out for months and he was probably told melt says that if he does get the surgery he’ll be out to close to a year which he wants to avoid right now mjf is
Out with a torn laum and a hip injury the laam is more serious than the hip injury is aw cannot afford to have him out a full year I wonder where the story Line’s going to go if he is out for a year but the thing is Drew we all know
How important mjf is to AW Television I think you and I both know and the smart fans know that he’s not going anywhere so it’s not like he’s going to show up in the Royal Rumble or show up at WrestleMania with show up in WWE on the
Raw After Mania he’s there but the thing with aw is that was a huge blow and it’s never going to lessen they got some top tier talent that could take the ball and run with it in mjf’s absence and that alone should make Tony KH feel just
Slightly I’m not saying a lot more but slightly more comfortable with mjf being out well I think and that’s the reason why you’re seeing the majority of this reset I think Tony really has no choice here at times the elite is banged up Kenny’s hurt um you know uh the Bucks
Are doing whatever the Bucks are doing uh Jericho is not really and he’s not part of the elite but you know the only guy that’s really wrestling right now from that core group is hangman Paige and I think with mjf and the injury him being the hottest thing on AW Television
For the past you know 400 Days uh they needed a reset and I again mjf’s going nowhere but I think that you know this is exactly what aw needed um I don’t necessarily agree with mjf when he put out that like players tribute article when it was like there’s mjf fatigue I
Didn’t really see it I think mjf is a big reason why a lot of people you know tune in to a w especially some WWE loyalists or some casuals um so I think whenever he’s ready to go he will drastically help aw’s ratings I think mjf said that because he takes great
Pride in his work and he’s always open to listening to fans suggestions about which direction to go in and I feel like he saw a lot of the criticisms online about how people preferred him as a heel how great he was as a heel and then he
Turned baby face and he never felt the same I just think people didn’t want to give him a chance because they had this interpretation of him and only him being a heel but they didn’t really understand how talented of an individual he was and where the story line was potentially
Going with Adam Cole I only wanted what they wanted and I think that kind of beat mjf down and that’s not really fair yeah and I again I understand like a lot of people want mjf as a heel this nasty dastardly heel but again uh mjf
Was never going to be booed in Long Island I think that they they you know uh back booked that towards that event and I think you know once the devil started popping up we kind of knew and him and mjf and Adam Cole I truthfully believe that Samoa again you know I
Don’t know this for a fact but I believe that Samoa Joe was going to be Adam Cole and I think Adam Cole was going to win the World Championship there was going to be a different type of reveal at World’s End it just never got there due
To an unfortunate injury with Adam um and I think aw bookend backed you know that that pay-per-view with mjf’s booking he was never gonna be booed on Long Island mjf was never going to be booed on Long Island and I think that they did this to show a different side
Of M JF and also with the understanding that okay we can have this Mega Match on Long Island but man mjf is not going to get booed in his hometown just like Brett was never booed in Canada yeah it wasn’t I think Samoa Joe should have
Been Adam Cole had and would have been Adam Cole had Cole not gotten hurt oh absolutely Adam Cole Adam Cole if Adam Cole wasn’t injured it would have been Adam Cole MJ and Adam Cole would have been the world champion absolutely yeah we would and we would have had the turn
And everything else like that and that would have been it so and then one final piece my end here and then I’ll leave it up to Drew to see if he has anything else for us to talk about backstage news on why WWE hasn’t announced the Rock in
Advance of recent appearances so Meltzer reported this on the observer radio and he explained the reason that his appearances are not announced in advance and that is because the rock doesn’t care about ratings but rather the pop that he gets from the crowd in attendance although the rock is a
Businessman coming back to do things with WWE is more fun than business driven for Dwayne melt says but also he’s doing this for fun because he doesn’t have to do it and he’s doing it for the excitement let me see the paycheck that he’s getting and uh Le
Let’s see if that answer changes over time the type of thing that’s why he’s come back on Monday it wasn’t announced at a time like if they had announced it ahead of time I mean the rating would have been much higher much higher than it was he was doing it because in that
Case he wanted that pop because of the people in the building not knowing he was going to be there and then all of a sudden there he is that’s what he wants every time he comes back they never announce it ahead of time they’ll do the
Little tease but they won’t do so uh and they won’t do the announcement melter stated I I mean he’s right and wrong I’ll just state that he’s right and wrong oh melter yeah what is he wrong about he’s right that rock wanted a genuine surprise both times yeah Rock
Has now called out Roman for the head of the table to a certain extent Roman has ignored him I don’t believe that the Rock’s next appearance will be announced I do believe it’ll either be after the Roman Reigns match at the rumble or somewhere along the lines but after that
The Rock’s next appearances for WWE will be heavily announced heavily promoted so they can capitalize on it but yes Dave is right in terms of he wanted those first two appearances he being Dwayne uh The Rock Johnson to be a surprise to get a genuine reaction out of the fans going
Forward after the Royal Rumble if we see him as his last surprise that will be it because WWE will look to capitalize on it and um to say that the rock doesn’t have to do this he’s right but rock is also going to get paid very very well and
That’s that’s it you know a lot of people have had problems with X meast stars coming back and stealing spotlights from the current crop of talent and it seems like and I like me some Dwayne The Rock Johnson and this is a blockbuster match it needs to happen I
Don’t care where it happens it has to happen it’s good business for WWE let me reiterate that it’s good business for WWE and it has has to happen it needs to happen but the the outrage that I saw given to other performers when they did this is minimal compared to the Rock
Just sliding in to a massive Main Event whether it’s at the chamber or WrestleMania when other stars did this they got so much and the outrage was tremendous on social media and everywhere else which is a small bubble but you know this should have been done last year rock yeah I’m sorry this
Should have been done last year I’m happy you’re back I love that you give back to the business but I just feel like last year would have been the perfect time in place and it seems to me like financials weren’t it well I mean you could say that looking back in
Retrospect now with Cody and Roman you could say the same thing about Cody winning the title last year so we didn’t have to talk about this and discuss this this year and they could have did Rock and Roman without the title being there and they could have did it for the title
Of head of the table they would have saved themselves a ton of headache but you know they wanted Roman to break this record and they wanted to tout Roman over here and do all this other record-wise they could have saved themselves a ton of headache and my
Opinion still stands I’m not changing my opinion All Season Rock Roman elimination chamber and then Cody and Roman at WrestleMania night two I’m not changing my opinion at all no and I don’t think you shouldn’t I mean I think Rock and Roman at the
Chamber um it’s not what a lot of people are going to want I understand it’s got WrestleMania written all over it but you know um it’s it’s it’s a big Stadium show it’s 60k y uh it’s Australia for me I think you do that because you could still tell the co
Story I just like I’ve said a million times you know Rock’s not going to be on backlash Rock’s not going to be on money in the bank Rock’s not going to be on SummerSlam you know hypothetically so and I understand the business at hand The Rock attached to WWE is Mega
Business and it needs to happen if it happens at WrestleMania cool but I do believe we need to strike with Cody sooner rather than later because people are going to be disinterested shortly now I don’t know where everybody else feels about Roman and rock uh I
Asked you this I know this was a big discussion a big discussion as well with Rock and Roman in any situation do you feel that rock should beat Roman whether the championship is on the line or not does Rock beat Roman if there is no
Title on the line or does the rock put Roman over as the head of the table I you know it really depends here like is this a one-off because if it’s a oneoff then the rock will do business with his cousin the right way because
You know uh he knows the business is you know in and out he understands how it works and how things generate and that’s his passing of the torch you there’s a lot of things that scream that rock would probably want this match at WrestleMania but I think at the end of
The day Rock understands that his bump card is extremely limited and he can make a lot of money regardless so if they give him what he wants MoneyWise he’ll probably do it in Saudi or at elimination chamber or you know if his if his main focal point is WrestleMania
Then so be it does the title need to be attached for me no should the rock go over if it’s a oneoff no if there’s more than one match Happening Here cool you know cool I mean we saw that with the uh the Rock at John Cena
Right Rock beat Cena and then the next year Cena beat the Rock I don’t know if that’s gonna happen here with the rock I truthfully do not I think I don’t think the rock can do that I don’t think he can commit to two years realistically
Because I think there’s a lot going on in his world so yeah I hope it’s a oneoff one andone and then uh Roman gets put over and uh he is uh the one that ends The Rock’s career that’s just my opinion there and I and I think the rock
Would be down for that I also believe that the outcome of that match will be very telling to where WWE is headed with The Rock and their relationship if it’s a a Roman win and a rock handshake and a hug and a raising of the arm I think
Rock’s done done if it’s a schas finish where we don’t get a clear winner it’s a DQ or something or you know know rock lays out Roman at the end of it or rock wins then there’s obviously more business ahead of us pay attention
That’s all I got on my man if you got anything uh over there for us to talk about before we get into the Super chats it’s all yours well I want to uh touch on the whole Roman Rock stuff pay attention to the match order of the
Royal Rumble like where where that match fits where it falls on the card I think I’ve talked about this before with you guys and JD if that matches the main event watch out that’s all I’ll say Roman usually opens the show or ends the show no in between and that’s the thing
You know if you really want to like pop the crowd and everything else like that like get C I mean opening is is is another thing but I could see the men’s Royal Rumble opening or the women’s Royal Rumble opening it’s not the first time a World Heavyweight Championship
Closing out the rumble uh would happen it’s happened before happened last year they did uh Kevin Owens and ROM Rin at the end of the show didn’t they uh last I think that was the way they went off the air no yes you’re right and Sam and
Yeah you are right um couple things I have Andrade ELO pulled from an indie event Game Changer wrestling gcw and the event is January 12th in Chicago again normally when this stuff happens they are pretty much signed seal deliver WWE you know we all knew andrade’s headed back to WWE but I think
Now more than ever if they’re pulling him from a January 12th event a a return might be imminent or it’s for the rumble so that he doesn’t get hurt because they really want to put him in the Royal Rumble and not have him potentially be injured because that’s a big surprise
Your thoughts yeah I’m not I’m not surprised by that at all I actually did not know he was working the gcw show uh in January but uh I mean if they pulled him from that show it’s it’s pretty severe and uh by severe I mean uh like
You said he’s either going to show up on TV but I do think the the the the right opportunity to use him and debut him back in front of that audience is to have him come out in the Royal Rumble yeah I mean you know I think that’s
That’s the uh the right call um Kevin Nash talked on um his podcast uh this click this and he said I almost felt like this segment with The Rock and Jinger Mahal was photoshopped I got a weird vibe from the whole segment until Dwayne got out there and cut the
Sometimes I eat at the bar I’d much rather eat at the table maybe the head of the table if being asked by his co-host Sean Oliver if he thought Mahal’s opening promo of the in ring simic didn’t fit with the current product Nash responded by saying it just
Felt like the mon R Maharaja was fodder last uh later Nash said that Mahal did a good job overall even though the former Champion hadn’t appear on television for some time but he just felt like it was out of place until the final say uh segment like statement there from The
Rock do you agree or disagree did he feel out of place I mean um the the promo did it kind of feel like like okay what is like the rock like he came back basically you know uh like Seth Rollins said put Jinder Mahal’s balls in of ice and then at the
End kind of was just like oh by the way I’m here to call out the rock did the opening stuff kind of feel weird could he just rock bottomed Jinder and said what he said at the end uh it did it did feel a little off it did um not a big
Fan of Jinder Mahal’s promo style I think he just kind of rambles on and it just feels like a complete runon promo with no real substance I I didn’t really care for it I I honestly didn’t even care for the Rocks promo I thought it was typical rock nothing was really
Funny I thought a bunch of it was recycled from his Austin Theory promo back in September I mean I I didn’t really care for it at all I mean it was the one line that we all kind of uh latched on to you I’m going to sit at
The head of the table blah blah blah fine um but I do feel like maybe this was an introduction maybe it was bigger than just what they did with the rock maybe they’re trying to get Jinder back on TV I don’t know if they really want
To integrate him into TV maybe maybe it all means something in the in the longer sense I I don’t know like he’s wrestling Rollins is he going to be on TV they going to use him weekly on TV I don’t know I I don’t really care for him but I
Mean he’s a he’s a solid hand that they just keeping backstage to do nothing no Indo share where are they are they opting to use Mahal now you know I don’t know I think it’s a person that you know obviously they they now have Jinder has a world championship
Match on Monday Night Raw so I think it’s kind of like a hey here’s a there’s a nudge for you since you really took one on the chin with the rock I yeah you know I don’t know I wanted ask you about Monday Night Raw too I know you did a
Review show so we won’t you know sit here and bore the viewers with that but what did you think of raw overall as I’m going to give my rundown after you kind of uh talk about what you thought uh I thought it was um I thought it was a
Whole home show man it just felt like it was there nothing particularly important happened like you said I don’t know what football game was on last night that they kind of felt like they just put whatever on for three hours and they knew that they had their uh their ass
Handed to them nothing really felt important I mean CM Punk and Drew McIntyre if you watched that you really didn’t miss anything else on the rest of the show more all truth comedy that’s fine I know uh we all kind of know where that’s going Cody and Nakamura I’m glad
It’s potentially over at this point I don’t know where they go with Nakamura uh Gunther I said this on my show last night I don’t know if they’re setting Jay Uso up for Gunther I don’t know where they’re going with that you know nothing again particularly important happened but it wasn’t a bad
Show it’s just you know it was just there it just existed his absence Gunther is uh definitely needy like it’s missed he’s missed Sam Zay too Sami zay’s not on the show and he’s missed too right absolutely you know my quick thoughts on Monday Night Raw just
Because you know JD does a review show so we don’t sit here and kind of bounce off each other but you know I saw you going after I don’t know if it was you or somebody else I want to say it was you you know I saw that punk and Seth
Don’t need the world championship attached to us like ghost AR M marbl on the freeway that is the only thing that needs a world championship between those two is is punkin Seth like that match has to have the world Heavyweight Championship attached to has to be at WrestleMania like I I don’t understand
That I love what they’re doing with DIY um I think that they could either win the titles at the rumble or win the titles at Mania it’ll be interesting to see how we get the split from Judgment Day um with them holding the Tag Team titles I I pray the Cody Nakamura stuff
Is done um singles wise they could have an interaction in the rumble but no more singles wise and Cody kind of got that come up and the Drew Punk segment for me was good but it was almost like I I mean that again good but basically these two
Guys just going at each other for you know who’s going to win the Royal Rumble and then like is that going to lead to a singles match at chamber like I just don’t understand that truthfully maybe Cody maybe Cody wins the rumble challenges Roman Reigns and then Punk
And McIntyre kind of meet again in the chamber and then they do the chamber for Rollins title match who knows that could work and I think the RR stuff is brilliant yeah it’s good it’s good stuff I I again I don’t know where it’s leading with Miz and R Truth and and
Awesome truth I think right now The Miz needs R Truth and a Miz tag team with R Truth would actually probably be the most entertaining The Miz has been to be honest with you not to mention the other side of this whole thing Lui Kaiser saw
I mean what a aggressive showing by him kind of like really beating the hell out of Kofi that’s interesting to see what happens when gther comes back with him and ludvig yeah yeah some some good stuff I mean they got some uh some long-term developments on Raw but last
Night it just felt like a a blah sh but uh I think we’re all waiting for the Royal Rumble honestly and after the Royal Rumble things are going to definitely pick up cuz then you’re going to know where the rock sits and where Cody sits and where Punk sits and it’s
It’s going to be good stuff yeah I agree guys that is basically all we got as far as the news portion of the show we’re going to get into the Super chats in just a moment I want to thank you guys for hanging out with us on your Tuesday
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Hit that subscribe button down below continue to turn on the Bell man make sure you are notified of everything that happens here I will be live tomorrow with the aw Dynamite post as usual as aw is emanating from DA’s Place Big Show matches big matches that Tony KH put on
A lot of tag team matches tomorrow night but it’s supposedly their homecoming show so Claudio’s wrestling hangman should be a banger we have a new NXT North American champion all read it’s uh Oba Oba whatever ever his name is I don’t I’m not really familiar with him I
Haven’t watched any of the breakout tournament but apparently people are high on him yeah I mean him and odyssey Jones man I like both of them yeah all right guys who’s uh first Michael KRA with a $2 super cheat great podcast last night thank you JD thank you Michael
Glad you’re in the chat brother Jamal turny with a 499 will you guys be watching Edge in Percy Jackson tonight no sir Champion Channel with a $5 Super Chat Jinder Mahal is my new favorite guy thank you Tony now focus on your own talent instead of trending WWE guys yeah
I mean you know he got both companies both stars from both companies to react to it and like I said it did a ton of impression so I don’t I don’t think Tony’s like uh an idiot I think he’s got a little bit of Evil Genius in him MGM
Balling with the 499 days like today make me hate the IWC thank you JD and Drew for being voices of reason on days like this shout out to Jesse to glad he’s back tomorrow thank you Ballin uh yeah it’s a little it’s a little stressful the WC during uh days like
Today man but you know we’re all looking for something we’re all thirsty for some content and uh aw Tony KH gave it to us so there you go I’m just happy just happy to be here truthfully Sean with a 16 months JD thank you for all that you
Do love OTS thank you Sean I appreciate you man Armando with a 10 months JD Drew do you think WWE will ever book a tournament like WrestleMania 4 and who would be your Randy Savage in both men and women’s tournaments I choose Gunther and Tiffany shratton I don’t believe we
Will see a like WrestleMania or deadly games tournament that is a whole pay-per-view with a world title attached to it but if I had to pick um I would go gther and I would go yeah I’d have to say the same I it sounds I I hate to do that but i’ go
Gunther and uh yeah Ria I’ll go Ria yeah gther for sure um and I can’t really uh deny Tiffany Straton she’s one of my favorites there as far as the ladies are concerned Scott Woodford with 10 months Tony Khan needs to stop I’m not shocked by the way great hog show
Saturday JD keep up the great work guys thank you Scott uh was not too pleased with the uh quality of the sound coming out of the hog show but uh hopefully we’ll Rectify that when I don’t think anybody should be I’m sorry go ahead um well we got Mustafa Ali on March 3rd
So Mustafa Ali must I don’t think anybody should be surprised that what Tony Khan does on social media anymore because I don’t think Tony Khan gives a where you or I or anybody else thinks about what he does on social media because he’s done it time and time
Again again is it something that I would do as as an owner and executive probably not but that’s what makes the world go around and Tony I think knows what he’s doing yeah again just dissect what he what he did I mean he put out that tweet and then immediately tags hook to
Promote the smell Joe match so yeah and again for his tweet he did 400 or 315,000 Impressions after that tweet he did 3.5 million it’s crazy and 2.1 million so yeah uh cake with the $2 super chat some people say TK stop then there’s me I love it listen man it’s entertaining
Stuff uh people are people love what Tony Khan does there are people that don’t like what Tony Khan does like Drew said I don’t think Tony Khan’s going to give a whether you like it I or me or he likes it he doesn’t give a no
He’s got to make money he’s got to get the media rights deal he’s got to generate revenue and whether we agree with the tactics or not that’s that’s for him to decide Jason Barker thank you again brother for the $100 Super Chat uh Drew did have a spaces on Friday when I
Was not able to be live for Smackdown and uh apparently Jason enjoyed the conversation over there yeah we did you know 2200 people on a hour whim that we’re going live with the spaces because I knew JD was uh busy so I appreciate the love and support and I
Think that just shows just how big of an influence we currently have in this landscape myself and JD work our asses off for you guys and we’re glad you’re enjoying it uh Jason thank you brother delightful entertainment with a 199 Tony is just too immature to run a billion
Dollar company is he I think I think that’s easy for me and you to say sitting here truthfully Billy with the 100 thank you guys again for the two $100 super chats uh I uh listen man I think again it’s always 50/50 with me here especially leading to uh Mercedes joining aw with
All the rumors that have happened but I do think that we uh have a 50-50 chance of seeing her tomorrow I just think that’s something around the homecoming and that big women’s match and you know her being there kind of just makes sense so especially after today’s uh little
Scuffle on social media I can see Tony Khan saying you know what man you Mercedes is coming out tomorrow again I think you know hate to label him as like an evil genius but I mean you know Tony could really Embrace this role too and just be this piece of on
Television too if you wanted to be uh TK banks with a $10 Super Chat you thought CM Punk in The Rock was the monkey wrench na n Jinder is the real monkey wrench give him the Punjabi or Panjabi MC Jay-Z as his theme song Jinder just got turned into a baby face
That’s a banger that’s always a banger oh yeah no man please please hinder the gender okay El M with a 20 thank you brother TK should pull the ultimate counted to Ginder hire top dollar have him cost swerve the third match against hangman and book we have a long-term booking
Feud from the row days no anywhere anywhere top dollar is I don’t want to be okay he’s already in Impact EV with a $2 Super Chat book chamber guys wronged by bloodline Cody included I could see that being the case uh we won’t know until we get a Royal
Rumble winner on H the 29th so we’ll find out then it’s a good way to get people in the chamber from both Brands we got uh Jared Howard with a $2 Super Chat book Mahal like the iron Chic if you want a real heel listen man Jinder got jinder’s got
Some real fans out there it’s crazy to see well he had a whether you hated it or not is irrelevant whether I ha it or not is irrelevant or liked it I mean he had a he had a successful WWE Championship run in terms of profitability I mean they were trying to
Launch something in India was it my cup of tea no but I thought Jinder was a really good heel I’ll give him that I mean did he almost Smackdown sure but I mean we’ll let that one slide uh zero with a $20 Super Chat Jinder wins the title from Seth and kie
Wins the the Royal Rumble Ki vers Ginger main event at WrestleMania 4 you oh my I got to get out I got to get out I’m there I’m there with tomatoes in hand Jesus Christ man Deontay Smith with a fought out sub J not a fan of TK’s Antics but people are
Overreacting did we forget Vince sent DX in a tank to Nitro for a ratings grab anything for eyeballs like Drew said man he got three million impressions on that one tweet I mean he’s doing something right Eric bishof called out Vince McMahon for a fight at uncensored yeah
Come on now Frank with a $5 Super Chat crazy idea Seth vers priest at the rumble Seth wins and priest Cashes in after the loss gets that briefcase out of the stories so Seth has a match with priest for the championship priest doesn’t have
To cash in his his money in the bank to get that opportunity no yeah I think we get Seth Seth and priest at the rumble but uh I think it’ll be Seth trying to get his title back I think we may see something on Monday fixes a bind with a $10 Super
Chat I was never an aw vers WWE guy until the punk firing happened the anti- punk folks with the misreporting and punk bashing made it personal for me and toxic fans tend to push me to Total polarization I don’t blame you there man it’s uh it’s a little wild out here man
It’s it really with somebody’s perception of the product for sure if you love pro wrestling you probably will end up hating pro wrestling you’re on Twitter pro wrestling Sports entertainment is better with Phil Brook CM Punk in it uh Kazama Fury with 17 months covered Dynamite last week as an EMT so much
Backstage Talent was absent the crowd was significantly less looked like a split roster with Collision that’s interesting well it was it was it was New Year’s guys also please take that in consideration Tony KH gave a lot of talent off and a lot of talent is hurt
As well yeah I think um I we need that split though from collision and dynamite like I I really would like to know who I’m getting and what I’m getting cision you know uh Michelle with the two in awwwe which two would you turn heel and
Face uh well I would turn Ria into a baby face that’s number one easy I don’t know about you man yeah yeah Lucky G with a 499 are you both going to the rumble if so will there be a meet and greet um lucky we’ve been
Going back and forth on it we don’t know what we’re doing yet but Drew’s got media and uh he more than likely will be there I’m trying to figure out logistics the one thing that we want to nail down is a post show live after the rumble but
We’re still trying to figure that out if not we’ll think about Revolution uh Joseph with a 499 abidon did not have a match on TV after 1027 2021 until 1025 2023 and got a title match after winning one match on TV in two years Tony is a hypocrite yes Joseph
Tony does the same thing that he accused WWE of doing I don’t think he realizes it Hollywood guy with a $5 Super Chat do you think Cody’s booking matches do do do you think that Cody’s booking matches Daniel Bryan’s I mean he wanted challenges until Daniel won the title
And then the YES Movement began or not I don’t know what you mean there bro he’s booking matches Daniel Bryan’s what does that mean there’s no more Daniel Bryan it’s Brian Danielson and he’s in is he trying to say that Cody’s booking is similar to Daniel Bryant’s like because they you
Know I I don’t know I no I guess you know I don’t know Cody better watch out for the rock that’s all listen if Cody gets involved with the rock I don’t know if Cody’s going to really uh come out on the better end of that one uh ad
Thousand likes thousand likes there you go we just hit it um we got a 279 Super Chat from Adam I’m not going to yell it because I don’t want to scream and wake up my cat 279 thoughts on the AR truth segment found it hilarious well Drew said he
Loved it yeah I mean truth is a gem and he’s making you know great content he will be the reason why the Judgment Day is uh split and Daman priest turns into a baby face uh Clint bond with a $5 superjet bishof has no High Ground from cribbing of the NWO
Gimmick from a ufw new Japan angle to shadily reading Raw results from taping on Nitro plus many more yeah he’s got no room to talk man he he did more nefarious things than Tony Khan could ever dream of doing there’s your sat word for the day folks nefarious yeah
Tay tay with a four 199 are any of you guys an Oba feminist what I don’t know what that is man I you you NXT guys man you’re weird Tay Tay I’m not talking about you but you you NXT Geeks man it’s a different vibe down there man not uh
Not my black and gold type vibe uh Adam with the 279 any plans coming to Toronto for money in the bank one thing at a time Adam one thing I never been to Toronto I’d love to go so we’ll see Toronto’s fun uh Chris you can drive to
Toronto from New York by the way yeah I know but I’m not going to okay um Chris with a 499 what’s up J your question for both of you what’s your prediction for the location of WrestleMania 41 I’ll leave this up to this guy here I think
It’s down to Vegas and Minnesota there you go entrepreneur daily with a 199 do you think Roman will open or close the Royal Rumble close it’s very interesting it’s either going to be one of the two uh not Jordy 499 three guys from raw three guys from Smackdown in the chamber
What do you think all people that were screwed by Roman Reigns in the bloodline um I’ll give you my three I think La Knight Smackdown I think AJ Styles and I think Randy Orton yep I think the raw guys are Cody rhods Sami Zayn or Jay
Us yes cuz Punk will have already won The Rumble that’s it seems like that’s where they’re headed uh Phil with a 999 great show is always fellas I think people need to understand that goner the days of a monopoly in pro wrestling WWE is better because aw exists and vice versa stay
Safe and God bless thank you Phil and uh thank you for the OTS hoodie man it looks great on you uh Nate with a 10 Jinder Mahal ver Tony KH steel cage match K versas 60min and Iron Man match and if Cody doesn’t say the fact that
Dwayne is in the main event of WrestleMania and I’m not makes me sick he shouldn’t win the belt there is not enough alcohol no or substances for me to watch any of those matches no I was just about to say the same thing and Furious Nation with 27
Months what’s up JD and Drew great show as always Rock Roman elimination chamber Roman Cody at WrestleMania is what I’m sticking with and that is the right way happy New Year no complaints out of me man that’s what I’m sticking with all right man that was everything what
Do you got get the hell out of here nothing just stop making big deals about who’s getting title shots and who’s not it’s professional wrestling like to try and compare it to like professional sports is crazy wrestling’s fixed professional sports you know from what
We know are not so just in a product to put out somebody wins a number more contenders match somebody doesn’t whatever they’re granted opportunities who cares enjoy the entertainment guys thank you so very much for all your support if you enjoyed today’s uh live stream please hit that
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31 Comments
Stories in the Continental Classic? What are you high on?
I think fans take wrestling way too serious now
I’m a mavs fan & Tony Khan reminds me of Mark Cuban. He’s the complete opposite of the typical sports owner/ceo etc
He won’t be liked by everyone but that’s fine. Twitter was entertaining Tuesday I’ll say that
Baydala, love you man but you look weird without the beard lol maybe I’m just not used to it
I’d rather Tony Khan vs Vince than Tony Khan vs HHH. Ngl.
TK don’t deserve hate.
Haven't watched your show in quite some time but DAMN THATS ONE BAD ASS INTRO. IM LOVING THE MUSIC.
I want a “stack marbles on the freeway” t-shirt now hahahaha I love you guys and the Bret hart line was hilarious JD love ya’ll guys
I'm convinced Tony Khan is the cloud of dust alien from Futurama. He's just playing with his AEW collectibles.
WWE produces weekly children shows. AEW produces edgier more violent weekly shows mostly aimed at adults. Tony Khan should promote the shit out of that fact because clearly that is something WWE can’t touch at the moment. In the beginning, he promoted his promotion as the alternative. He needs to double down on that fact.
I just don’t like the woke AEW fans I don’t think they ever even listened to rap music
“Why do people act suprised when Tony does this?”…because he is literally the owner of the company. He has a roster of bootlickers and meat riders that will go out of their way to excuse what he does. TK could just tell FTR bald to post these “sHoTs” for him. It embarrasses the company when the literal owner does it. Shows he is a child and not a businessman.
JD and Drew just said it all as well as covered a lot of ground on this episode of TNT plus with Tony Khan all he can do is focus on his product and make his promotion better and as far as Mercedes Moné goes wherever she lands she will make herself and everyone else better in the women's division in professional wrestling better I hope she shines bright in All Elite Wrestling.
This how young jd and Andy are too. I use to watch AWW, NWA when they showed it. Wonder if you guys member that if you wrestling fams
Tony is a moron. His company is for Meltzer.
WWE fans are toxic as hell if AEW does this they will cry me a river 😢.
Streameast
Drew looks like Agent 47 😂
Don’t hinder the Jinder!!!!
As a Steeler fan I think Jags disrespecting the Terrible Towel before and after beating us was the thing that came back to haunt them. Trevor Lawrence called the towels "Little Yellow Towels" and then players after the game were taunting with the towels following that. I'm not usually one to say curses are real but Terrible Towel Curse looks to be real in this case for Jacksonville as the rest of the season after beating Pittsburgh Jags would go 3-6. Because of their players disrespecting it, today Pittsburgh is now in the playoffs with the record of 10-7(Now I don't think we're going to go far in the playoffs especially without TJ but it be nice to finally win a playoff game after so long) while Jags missed it with the record of 9-8.
Tony is hurt that Jinder’s segment had more viewers than his whole week of television 😂😂😂😂
34:03 maybe Rollins defeats Jinder on raw to retain & Jinders Freinds Veer & Sanga attack Rollins Priest Runs in to cash in and drew stops priest
The WWE sycophants never seize to amaze me. Sit down and explain to me why a pro wrestling monopoly is good. Triple H also knew.
This man Tony could’ve just went on about his day and just promoted Dynamite or whatever PPV is coming up but instead he made a complete fool of himself and gave more attention to WWE. AEW is only gonna get much worse from here if this type of pattern from the owner out of all people is doing something like going on a social media tangent.
#OTS4Life
Great discussion guys. Interesting point by Drew about AEW grabbing workers from WWE.
TK crying about WWE giving out random title matches when on AEW majority of the belts are defended in random matches by people who are barely featured on TV. The lack of self-awareness is actually impressive.
Tony wishes AEW "stars" would get the mainstream recognition that Jinder's face got from Big Sky viewers.. What were those Season 2 ratings?
I hope Jinder gets a title reign and another of those little sidekicks this time and he names it Tony and Jinder slaps him around during his segments.
Tony is WWF Jamison in real life..
WWE biggest mistakes was pushing Jinder way too fast. He was a jobber turned main-eventer. He was pushed out of nowhere with no build up to his momentum. That's why nobody took him seriously as WWE champion. Jinder is a joke, and so is his goons, The Bollywood Boys, whom overselling.
Keyword: Prediction as Paul Heyman would say it, that's not a prediction, that's a spoiler.
Tony Khan is right there are a lot of double standards in the IWC
I DIDN'T KNOW THAT JINDER MAHAL WAS STILL ON THE ROSTER 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
When jinder wrote who tf is hook, taz comes out and corrects him by saying his name is HOOK.my man taz writing in caps does not make a difference. HOOK is a nobody and jinder is a legitimate looking star who will dwarf over 90% aew roster.