Tony
Khan says WWE reached out to request interview subjects
for their documentaries -
9th December 2021
TONY
KHAN RECALLS WWE REACHING OUT TO INQUIRE ABOUT AEW
TALENTS POSSIBLY PARTICIPATING IN WWE DOCUMENTARIES
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inquired about interview subjects for their projects.
Going
into AEWs debut at the UBS Arena, company President
Tony Khan made the media rounds and one of the outlets
he appeared for was Barstool Sports where he chatted
with Robbie Fox.
As their conversation progressed, Khan shared that
WWE reached out to him about AEW contracted talent
and staff participating in their upcoming documentaries.
Khan said hes always open to listen as long
as discussions and business dealings are classy. He
added that the phone call was very nice and hes
reviewing WWEs interview subject requests.
I
heard from them [WWE] recently. Ill break this
news here. I dont think its being aggressive
or anything to say it. I heard from them recently.
Theyre doing documentaries and a lot of the
biographies, like theyve been doing the biography
shows so this is I guess breaking news. I heard from
them recently. They were doing a lot of biographies
and they wanted to use some of the people here [AEW]
and I think thats a thing, its probably
gonna come out sooner or later. They wanted to interview
some of the people who wrestle here that used to wrestle
there and some people that have had history there
or the other libraries that they own and so, well
see, you know? I think Im open to talking. I
heard from them and they were very nice.
No
its not [the first time weve heard from
WWE]. Weve heard a couple other things. We did
the thing last year; Chris Jericho did the thing with
Steve Austin and that one made sense to me because
of Steve, right? And I trust Steve and Chris completely
and Steves a friend of mine and Chris is a friend
of mine. Its super classy and as long as everythings
classy and the way they approached me was very classy
so, I have nothing bad to say about that so, I dont
know if well see that competition head-to-head
but, I am considering some of these requests on some
of these biographies and it was actually a very nice
call I received the other day but Ive never
actually talked to Vince [McMahon] himself.
Tony
Khan had some back and forth with Eric Bischoff through
their respective media appearances. Bischoff voiced
his thoughts about some of the comments that Khan
was making in interviews. Tony said he should talk
to Eric because theyre friends, but was surprised
by some of the comments Eric made.
Nobody
else has really done anything at Madison Square Garden
in 30, 40, 50 years. WCW never even did it, right?
But WCW, they had their own buildings, you know? They
ran all over the country and had dome stadiums and
nobodys done anything like that in the live
attendance world since. Its one of the reasons
why I have so much respect for Eric Bischoff. We havent
talked in a while and I probably would at some point,
I probably should talk to Eric because were
friends but like, Im honestly super busy and
I was surprised at some of the stuff he said. I guess
he was taken aback by stuff I said. But, theres
only really like three big wrestling Presidents in
my lifetime that have had a big run and hes
one of em and Vince McMahons one of em
and now, thanks to the great wrestling fans, now Im
one of them, and so theres only three of us
so its important for us to have a good relationship
but I havent talked to him in a while.
In
September of 2020, Best Friends (Trent & Chuck
Taylor) took on Santana and Ortiz in a Parking Lot
Fight. Tony feels that it was the perfect match and
detailed how happy he was after the bout wrapped up.
Tony
ran from Gorilla Position to the other side of Dailys
Place to greet Best Friends and Santana and Ortiz
for their performance[s].
It
was a perfect match [Parking Lot Fight between Best
Friends and Santana & Ortiz]. So I was really
excited about the Parking Lot Fight. I was as excited
as Ive been about anything weve done because
it was perfect and it could have been if we needed
to, but it wasnt a cinematic match. It was all
one run. We didnt change anything. Everybody
went nuts and it was like that was just a home run
match and it was like a real fight.
So
there was a lot of great moments and great payoffs
and you can count on the Best Friends sometimes to
have those things up their sleeves. So I was so happy
when we got that recorded and I just ran from Gorilla
to where they were filming which was on the other
side of Dailys Place. I was so excited we got
it and theres great photos and the guys are
all bloody and covered in glass, were all hugging
and then I was bloody and covered in glass but I didnt
care at all and was so happy because it was such a
great match and I was so happy for them that they
got the five-star rating because they deserved it
and its one of the craziest things weve
ever put on TV absolutely. For the fans last year
in the pandemic, we tried to put on great stuff like
that and that was one of the home runs I thought so
The Best Friends and Santana and Ortiz was a great
match.
The
main event of the 12/8 AEW Dynamite was Bryan Danielson
versus John Silver. John Pollock and Wai Ting shared
their thoughts about the match and the entire show
on the newest Rewind-A-Dynamite.
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Wrestling)
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