The Tony Khan Is A Twat Thread

[Infinity Land]

1 hour ago, LaGoosh said:

Absolutely agree. The top male stars should be prioritised first over giving more TV time to the sub par women's division which wouldn't happen if they introduced womens tag titles as your suggesting.

The Women's division actually has multiple random thrown together tag matches on Dark/Elevation. It's not a case of fantasy booking things into existence like most things. A tag title would at least give that some direction.

In terms of TV time it wouldn't take up much space since defenses of most titles amount to once a month at most. The women's division usually getting one or two seemingly random TV matches thrown out in a month already.

[Lorne Malvo]

18 minutes ago, Infinity Land said:

The Women's division actually has multiple random thrown together tag matches on Dark/Elevation. It's not a case of fantasy booking things into existence like most things. A tag title would at least give that some direction.

People would then moan that the Womens Tag division is relegated to Dark/Elevation.

[Keith Houchen]

4 hours ago, LaGoosh said:

. I think he definitely needs more input 

Is that what the kids call a few lines of Gianluca Vialli these days?

3 hours ago, Infinity Land said:

Titles and Tournaments have been his crutch. 

 

Nah, a big bag o’ beak is his crutch. 

[BomberPat]

4 hours ago, LaGoosh said:

Even when AEW is in a slump they've still managed to successfully build new acts from scratch so to say he's short sighted or the biggest problem is probably wrong. 

I think "short-sighted" is probably the exact opposite of Tony Khan's problem. At the beginning, they talked up having storylines planned for years, and that's easy to do when you're fantasy booking, but nigh-on impossible in practice when faced with injuries, departures, and new signings that need to be accommodated. Where those long-term stories have been allowed to play out, they're usually pretty good, and he clearly has long-term plans for younger wrestlers like Adam Page, Ricky Starks and "The Four Pillars" to be elevated gradually.

The problems are when someone throws a spanner in the works, and he has to scramble for a replacement, and that replacement quite often ends up being either another tournament, or a fairly "safe" top level match like Moxley/Jericho - save instances like having Claudio ready to debut when Danielson got hurt. Some bookers do their best work when their hand is forced like that, whereas I get the impression it's when Tony Khan is at his worst.

I don't think a Women's Tag Title solves anything. The promotion doesn't need more belts, and introducing new ones always feels like an admission that something isn't working, or that you can't come up with compelling storylines that don't rely on a title feud. They already have two women's singles belts - one of which can use the rankings system, the other more of an open challenge set-up, one held by a heel and one by a face, so there's already the scope there to tell different kinds of stories - plus the ROH Women's Title if they need it, and the possibility of Thunder Rosa winning AAA's Women's Title later in the year. It's not a shortage of belts that's stopping them booking women well, it's a shortage of time allotted to (the majority) of them, a very narrow focus on a handful of wrestlers, and a mid-00s WWE mentality towards women's feuds just being between champion and challenger, rinse and repeat, with no non-title feuds to speak of.

There are women there who could bring something to the table, and just aren't being given the opportunity to - Hikaru Shida hasn't been on TV since April, Emi Sakura is on Dark all the time but last wrestled on TV in 2019, Abadon hasn't been on TV since October, Diamante would be a perfect fit as the female back-up for Kingston, Santana and Ortiz instead of crowbarring Ruby Soho into that spot, but hasn't wrestled on TV since December 2020. There's plenty of women who wrestle regularly on Dark but have never made TV, before you even look at wrestlers like Max The Impaler who haven't been signed, but have made a few appearances and would kill it on TV.

[Duke]

7 hours ago, Daddymagic said:

When I mentioned his short sighted booking was more along the lines of not pulling the trigger of what's in front of him. 
 

Darby, MJF and Jungle Boy were on the cusp on pretty big things - now look where they are due to TKs booking.

Darby has done nothing of note for months, and floats around the mid card. 
MJF was white hot but this shoot angle and then disappearance has done him no favours, likewise leaning into his edgy (cheap heat) comments which got old fast. 
Jungle Boys tag reign went on months too long, and when they finally pulled the trigger on him vs Christian it's played second fiddle to ROH shite instead of being a featured programme given plenty of air time. 

By now at least one, if not all three should be main eventing main shows and not still bloody Jericho! 

Wardlow, see above. Who TK has also turned him a can't miss prospect into low card bollocks with Jay Lethal. 

Listen, everyone is entitled to their opinions but I think this is mental. 

Derby is nowhere close to being main event ready, but he's over and doing the Jeff Hardy thing of being the underdog in feuds with bigger men. It works for him right now. He's also a bit one trick pony and needs to develop.

MJF was a main eventer and will be again when(if) he gets back. The edgelord stuff was clearly him rather than TK (as he does it all the time) and while khan could've stopped him, it was clearly working.

Jungle boy is in a major singles feud for the first time in his career and he will move up the card off the back of it. He's just turned 25 and has loads of time to move up organically. He definitely shouldn't be main eventing right now either.

Wardlow is the TNT champion having just been MJFs muscle. His work is not good enough for AEWs main event scene. so he's got the TNT belt where all he does is wrestle great workers. He can grow that way and a main event is in his future.

These are all decent projects with their guys with upside.

BomberPat is spot on with Khan's issues. He can't adapt and just falls back on new belts and tournaments. PURE SPORTS BAY-BEE.

He's flawed, but he does patience and slow burns really well.

[Vamp]

Khan's problem is excess.

There's too much of everything. There's too many wrestlers and there's too many shows (I get that half of them don't matter). 

That and his twitter account because one day he's going to say something really stupid, piss off a vocal section of his fan base, get pissed off at them being pissed off and then say something really, really stupid and then yeah. 

 

[Keith Houchen]

5 hours ago, Vamp said:

Khan's problem is excess.

There's too much of everything. There's too many wrestlers and there's too many shows (I get that half of them don't matter). 

That and his twitter account because one day he's going to say something really stupid, piss off a vocal section of his fan base, get pissed off at them being pissed off and then say something really, really stupid and then yeah. 

 

He’s someone who isn’t told no in his life and never has been. He isn’t familiar with not getting his way, if he wants something he gets it. One percenter cunt. 

[Daddymagic]

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[Daddymagic]

There is an AEW talent meeting set to take place today.

- @FightfulSelect
 

Hope he puts it on TV like Dixie!

[Hannibal Scorch]

2 hours ago, Daddymagic said:

There is an AEW talent meeting set to take place today.

- @FightfulSelect
 

Hope he puts it on TV like Dixie!

He’s addressing the roster on a work day. What a twat indeed.

[69MeDon]

Suspended Eddie Kingston for pie-facing Sammy Guavara. Twat.

[LaGoosh]

8 hours ago, 69MeDon said:

Suspended Eddie Kingston for pie-facing Sammy Guavara. Twat.

Not sure suspending an employee for attacking another employee is a twat move but hey, each to their own.

[DavidB6937]

Imagine it was the other way round. People would be out for blood.

[LaGoosh]

So what?

[DavidB6937]

So I agree with what you said.

Just because it's Eddie on Sammy, doesn't make it some sort of cool "well done Eddie!" moment like I've seen a lot of people online say. Eddie himself said he was wrong to deal with it in that way.