What happened to Marko Stunt? AEW never used my "how far can you launch Marko?" idea. Maybe they couldn't think of a worthy prize,,,,,,

Tony Khan has New Years Eve MELTDOWN over diversity in AEW
 

Tony getting eaten alive on twitter right now, aye aye aye Tony

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The top 2 <a href="https://twitter.com/AEW?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AEW</a> execs are brown (me &amp; Megha)!! Jade, Bowens, Caster, Dante, Nyla, Isiah &amp; Marq Quen all won on tv this month. The TBS Title Tournament has been very diverse. I let Swole’s contract expire as I felt her wrestling wasn’t good enough. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AEWRampage?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AEWRampage</a> Street Fight TONIGHT! <a href="https://t.co/NprF6I7D6G">https://t.co/NprF6I7D6G</a></p>&mdash; Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) <a href="https://twitter.com/TonyKhan/status/1477071736726245376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Big Swole was awful tbh

Her main complaint with this besides the "AEW doesn't have enough black executives" thing seems to be "AEW keeps hiring new ppl so there isn't enough TV time for me"...

LOL! I like him trying to brag about all the Black people he let win a match in December :rofl::rofl::rofl:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Im not cool with any of this shit to be honest.</p>&mdash; Lio Rush (@IamLioRush) <a href="https://twitter.com/IamLioRush/status/1477076565246705665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If nobody says something, then I will. Because this is fucked up and now I’m pissed.</p>&mdash; Lio Rush (@IamLioRush) <a href="https://twitter.com/IamLioRush/status/1477081194084794369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">APOLOGIZE. <a href="https://twitter.com/TonyKhan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TonyKhan</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/AEW?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AEW</a></p>&mdash; Lio Rush (@IamLioRush) <a href="https://twitter.com/IamLioRush/status/1477086524193705987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">the narrative being shifted toward swole’s wrestling ability is a microaggression. she could legit be the worst wrestler on the planet and her point would still stand. and what does her wrestling have to even do with it? she spoke up for everyone</p>&mdash; �� (@raallins) <a href="https://twitter.com/raallins/status/1477078839901794305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Wow, this tweet is just as professional as the time he very drunkenly mansplained wrestling to me at a TCA party. <a href="https://t.co/G0l76cHXIz">pic.twitter.com/G0l76cHXIz</a></p>&mdash; LaToya Ferguson (@lafergs) <a href="https://twitter.com/lafergs/status/1477076704522764289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A little defensive huh? <a href="https://t.co/YdFUyfit2I">pic.twitter.com/YdFUyfit2I</a></p>&mdash; PRIME Alexander (@CedricAlexander) <a href="https://twitter.com/CedricAlexander/status/1477081155551875073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

lol he def shouldn't have posted that

But he mentioned her wrestling ability because she said she quit over those things rather than her being released... sounds like a "jilted lover" thing to me,,,

He's prob drunk or coked up tbh

Nice......

" Her wrestling was bad " lmao dude is living in lala land.

We made the first strike at FAN and now people are turning on Tony Khan. 😆 I told you guys it was him and Meltzer running that place.

Tony Khan about to get cancelled by his own sheep.

It was inevitable that the time was gonna eventually come when Khan turned heel and stopped trying to be the "well-liked owner" and lots of ppl started to hate him

Quit trying to take away credit where credit is due. I'm the one who got him to show his true colors.

Tony Khan is a manchild asshole. I have been telling you all forever. Turns out he is also a bit racist and sexist too.

pushing people to meet a diversity quota would kill aew in the fastest way possible

my favorite part of it was how he counted the Acclaimed and Private Party by their individual members. So, it was basically 5 matches. Well, besides talking about Swole being bad when Rosa could barely pull anything out of Jade.

Like I understand wanting to publicly stick your neck out for your company if someone claims there’s racism or a lack of diversity or any of that...but there’s surely a more professional way of addressing these claims than just shitting on the person who made them.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If you are TK do you proceed with your NYE plans and risk getting papped like this <a href="https://t.co/rX8ofB7noE">pic.twitter.com/rX8ofB7noE</a></p>&mdash; SoDuTw (@SoDuTw) <a href="https://twitter.com/SoDuTw/status/1477079870551334912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

That's basically it. It's just a dumb way to respond to it all.

Tony sometimes comes across as this kid who grew up never being told 'no' so when he gets any criticism he sends out a petty response instead of hiring a PR person to respond to things with common sense.

Guys Swole is TERRIBLE. And for those who want to complain about the lack of diversity in AEW I think they are absolutely trying their best with what they have. It's not like they opened the promotion with Keith Lee and Jon Gresham. There aren't as many top level black wrestlers as there are white, Latino and Asian. But Tony has clearly done his part in being inclusive from the beginning.

It has always been troubling to me that AEW didn't have a black star that actually mattered. But Scorpio failed, Swole failed, Private Party flopped, and Lee Johnson is totally forgettable.

The Acclaimed and Dante Martin/Leo Rush/Team Faz story have all been pretty good though.

Fuck Swole, she sucks.

Whoops

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FH-pZ3CW...jpg&name=small

Tony Khan gets hot headed way too easy and another instance where a PR person is much needed for him in AEW. The public dig at her work effort wasn't needed and just listing a few names comes more across as him deflecting any blame over Swole's comments.

The stuff Big Swole mentioned was both true in the sense that AEW could do a much better job highlighting and focusing on their diversity and women's wrestling but also somewhat of a stretch since she pretty much ignored everyone who wasn't black in the company. She totally ignored that Jade Cargill has gotten one of the biggest spotlight treatments in the company since she debuted. She also ignored that she got multiple chances at becoming a bigger star in AEW but things just didn't work out for her in the end for various reasons.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">As y’all know I’m Latina &amp; I know the struggles. I have an accent &amp; cutting promo on National TV is not something that you see normally but AEW &amp; TK makes me feel comfortable and not ashamed doing it <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TayJay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TayJay</a> vs Bunny &amp; Penelope start almost a YEAR AGO &amp; it ends tonight. Watch US <a href="https://t.co/iiO78YHWOn">pic.twitter.com/iiO78YHWOn</a></p>&mdash; TAYNARA MELO (@TayConti_) <a href="https://twitter.com/TayConti_/status/1477087669389828100?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Stephanie McMahon has the most boring twitter account of all-time but she has that marketing/PR speak down to a science. Sometimes no response/PR response is the best response.

Yeah minus that one time she dumbfound tweeted about philanthropy being nothing more than just marketing and branding stuff without realizing how much of a bad look that gave to WWE's own Connor's Cure charity and their work with other charities.

Like its one thing to be very proud of your product like Khan has shown multiple times whenever AEW succeeds but its also another thing to know when to read the room and not respond back or not get into petty arguments like Khan also does a lot of times as well.

Tony DOES know what happened to Bill Watts (who actually booked a Black World Champion) after he said something that was perceived as racist, right?

It's pretty much ALWAYS the best response, especially from the people who actually run the company.

What a fucking moron.

She could teach a class on it. What she's done to change to perception of WWE in the business community is one of the more underappreciated things in wrestling.

i wish he had someone like dutch mantell running the wrestling and the press interviews. now tony knows what bookers are for to keep you from making an ass of yourself.

The diversity comment is horse shit. They’re likely about to crown a black female wrestler the first tbs champion after a year of her going undefeated and being booked like a monster. She made it to the end of that tourney by beating an extremely popular and protected Mexican wrestler. A Brazilian women who’s also ridiculously popular is protected. Their first 3 women’s champions were Japanese foreigners and a Native American trans women. The previously mentioned Mexican women is the favorite to be the next women’s world champion.

A foreigner win the TNT title, is featured prominently and booked like a monster. The current tag champs are Mexican. Dante Martin is featured regularly in an in going storyline and Lio Rush has been presented as nothing less than a big deal.

To say there’s no diversity is a bad faith argument. Swole just wasn’t good. She had that one awesome match on dark with diamante. And that’s about it. Everything else she did was ok at best and she’s not better nor does she have a higher ceiling than the women mentioned above except maybe Nyla, but Nyla fills a role Swole can’t.

Tony should go about it a better way. That comment was clearly made to put his foot down on Swole. I don’t think it’s wrong of him to defend his company, especially when such a dumb comment is made. But he shouldn’t be so sensitive. He should stick to hyping the shoes and thanking the fans and letting his PR team handle this kinda stuff.

That's true. And there is no promoter more diverse than Tony Kahn who is Asian American. Vince McMahon is only white, you know?

Sign Keith Lee and make him world champ for the next 5 years

Problem solved.

Didn’t Swole say in an interview recently that both parties decided to part ways? Then she comes out with this shit?

I’m team TK on this one.

And didnt Khan say this:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FH-pZ3CW...jpg&name=small

But now suddenly her wrestling isn't good? Come on man, we all know what this is. This is Tony once again responding poorly to a tiny bit of criticism. Like flipping out on Fox News, or that female reporter.

Ive said it before about Swole, she is pretty outwardly racist herself with things she has said and the frequency which she plays the race card, but in this case, with THAT response from Tony, he proved her point.

Tony should have tweeted something like 'We greatly appreciated Swole's feedback in her exit interview and it's something we have been and will continue to work on in the future -- We value ALL talent.'

But TK gotta TK

I’m in

Tony has more than enough money to hire someone to handle PR for him. What a dunce.

Or just stay the fuck off Twitter. Tony Khan is the owenbrown of Twitter.

Yeah. There's being "involved" with the job and interacting with fans, and then there's...whatever the fuck he does. Needs to be reined in a bit.

I'm full expecting Tony to reply "FUCK OFF YOU TERRORIST PIECE OF SHIT"!

I can't help but think that some folks are thinking twice about continuing to be booked there. One of the big ones will be Darius Lockhart. (and that dude is easily a better talker and worker than the all of the 4 Pillars. Even MJF.)

I'm cancelling my subscription to Sling Tv. I can't support a racist like Tony Khan.

Lmaooo

@TonyKhan

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Black Panther was the lead-in for Rampage tonight and then the show opened with Darby beating Anthony Bowen and they replayed part of the Brandi segment lmaoooo

Guevara and Tay Conti dating

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">2022 is going to be fun! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HAPPYNEWYEAR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HAPPYNEWYEAR</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TayConti_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TayConti_</a> ♥️ <a href="https://t.co/MsJe34cirw">pic.twitter.com/MsJe34cirw</a></p>&mdash; sammy guevara (@sammyguevara) <a href="https://twitter.com/sammyguevara/status/1477156735060226050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Hot. AEW dominating our dreams now not only the wrestling industry.

What does that have to do with anything?

Cue the neck beards hating on both of them

Favourite thing from this is that he hyped the Street Fight with his remaining characters.

Fuck all this shit. His biggest spaz out of the year was when he promoted CM Punk’s Daily’s Place debut. :nono:

Lmfao @ the rumors being true even as Sammy denied he left Pam for anyone

Def an upgrade though.

Of course he promoted CM Punk, CM Punk is white :rofl:

He left a townie for one of the hottest women in the world. Truly a perfect specimen. He's literally living the best life a person can live. If you could choose to be someone else Sammy Guevara would be a good choice.

1. He's making really good money
2. Doing what he loves
3. Doesn't "work a day in his life"
4. He gets to make love with Tay Conti
5. He's young and has his health
6. He was one holder of the TNT Network Championship

Tony Khan is a fucking clown. He does his company no favors. Good to see his ass finally get dragged for being a moron.

Tony does lots of favors.

Woof.

Tony is THE BEST

AEW is not racist.

Lol, an upgrade? His ex could have been a really good person that supported his ass when he was nobody trying to make it by wearing a fucking panda head. Tay might be a really cool person too. Or she could be a raging asshole behind closed doors.

She is a perfect human

“Some of the people I pay to be my friends are black.”

No, see, but Tay is hotter

Tony Khan is going to make it easy for WarnerMedia.

Tony can get major money deals with any major broadcaster on the market.

I hear he's also contacted the FBI on <s>Gertner</s> Swole

Lol, how did I miss this?

The good news is this shouldn’t affect AEW’s viewership, since 98.5% of them are white.

Lol no shit. Who takes comments like that seriously? I know nothing about either of them personally so I can only go off of what I know, and all I know is who I’d rather slam.

She would have a better accent if she was perfect :rofl:

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">POSITIVE CHANGE FOR 2022. ��<a href="https://twitter.com/TonyKhan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TonyKhan</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/AEW?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AEW</a> <a href="https://t.co/6k6AmMhTtI">pic.twitter.com/6k6AmMhTtI</a></p>&mdash; Lio Rush (@IamLioRush) <a href="https://twitter.com/IamLioRush/status/1477383798320816129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Good After-morning! <br><br>Sometimes you need to stop seeing the good in people and start seeing what they show you. Lesson learned. ����<a href="https://t.co/p5bpFdq8dI">https://t.co/p5bpFdq8dI</a> <a href="https://t.co/5LXDblIuPw">pic.twitter.com/5LXDblIuPw</a></p>&mdash; Swole One ���� (@SwoleWorld) <a href="https://twitter.com/SwoleWorld/status/1477354990515671043?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 1, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Gotta imagine Dinner &amp; A Movie would follow up <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AEWDynamite?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AEWDynamite</a>, right? <br><br>AEW Dynamite brings wrestling home to <a href="https://twitter.com/TBSNetwork?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TBSNetwork</a> on January 5 �� <a href="https://t.co/cFtYazLE3M">pic.twitter.com/cFtYazLE3M</a></p>&mdash; All Elite Wrestling on TNT (@AEWonTNT) <a href="https://twitter.com/AEWonTNT/status/1477051986470129669?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

You see, you made the mistake of implying that someone or something AEW related was better in some way than someone or something not AEW related.

So obviously this triggered Noid and he could not allow this to stand.

That cant actually be the real lead in for Dynamite right? Thats just a throwback im hoping.

Sounds like Tony apologized to Lio, but not Swole.

Checked their website... it is fake....

They are led into by 11AM-4PM block of "Friends" re-runs. 2 episodes of "Young Sheldon", followed by 4 of "The Big Bang Theory". Then Dynamite followed by the "Go-Big Show", then back to "Young Sheldon"

lol It’s a 90s WCW Saturday Night reference. I think Bonanza and Andy Griffith were lead-ins for it.

Really goes to show the audience they are marketing towards, even on social media.

Thats what I thought with the old graphic, but they got a part of me to doubt myself so good on them.:rofl:

Womens street fight on Rampage was hot shit. Brutal as fark and hard hitting, well done those lady’s!

Big storm in a little tea cup. Swoles original comments would probably carry more weight if she didn’t take shots at Jade while making them. Seems counter to the overall argument she seemed to be trying to make.

Leo Rush selling out to the devil.

What did she say about Jade?

That segment between Brandi Rhodes, Dan Lambert and Dustin was fucking horrendous. What’s the difference between Scorpio Sky and Ethan Page slapping their knees to Lambert’s forced lines and Happy Corbin and Madcap Moss doing the same thing on SmackDown? And the one-liners are just so cringe-worthy. Makes you embarrassed to be a wrestling fan.

Nooooo, when Brandi said "I'M A BLACK BITCH" I marked out. Great moment in wrestling history.

in the heeeeaaaaatttttt of the niiiiggghhhhhtttt

Dan Lamberts great, but there constant over reaction to him is annoying.

I thought Brando held her own pretty well in that back and forth. Apart from the MOTY over reacting to everything I enjoyed the segment.

Yesssss! Grandma Fan’s favorite!

Pretty sure she wanted to fuck Carol O’Connor. Maybe even Tibbs. She was very progressive, Grandma Fan.

Lambert’s not a bad talker. I don’t believe anything he says though. It makes me like him more than want to see him get comeuppance or anything.

I cannot believe Tony having his POC employees tweet how great he is actually worked. SMH

Watching Elevation. I am all in on Megan Bayne.

They should sign her

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Oh fucking yuck.

That shit reeks of licking the boot. And it reeks of TK insecurity. All you do is come out and say “Hey, I overreacted because I got upset because of my goals for AEW to become an increasingly more diverse company as time goes on. I’ve heard from people outside the company and inside that are challenging my perspective. I’ll have conversations with them when appropriate to further my personal growth and AEW’s growth as a company.”

Apparently there is heat between TK and Fightful because they reported it and the locker room is split on TK’s stance on this right now.

So that’s more fuel to the fire that TK can’t stand it when he isn’t represented positively by outside media.

The folks who offered to actually help him on this have been getting trolled by the fanbase.

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better call Kahn

Can’t say I’m surprised or feel too sorry for them.

TK is not mature enough to run this company. He’s upset that Fightful gave an interview to a talent he didn’t re-sign. No shit! Imagine if Vince McMahon responded to everyone WWE cuts that has a whinge about creative or issues there.

Plus, as some are conveying this story, it seems that TK is upset because he wants it known HE chose not to renew Big Swole’s contract and she never left over perceived diversity issues. None of which says anything about the validity of those issues — just that she didn’t quit, she was basically fired.

Fucking hell.

I wish Tony would hire Nailz, then get his ass beat by Nailz.

have dark on while i work and holy shit mark henry and big show are absolutely terrible on commentary. you can even hear it in tony's voice when he kinda half laughs at their awful jokes.