AEW talent were far from pleased with Tony Khan’s latest social media outburst against Jinder Mahal, it has been reported.
Khan took aim at WWE for booking Mahal in a World Heavyweight Championship match despite not having won a match on TV in a considerable amount of time.
On the latest edition of Wrestling Observer Live, Bryan Alvarez shared what he’d been told by those in AEW and Khan’s reasoning for this outburst and others. He said,
“Here’s the thing, I got a lot of tweets, it was the exact same thing as last time, I got a lot of tweets from people in AEW who were like ‘Why is he doing this on Twitter? This is embarrassing.’ That’s what they said, they said it last time too, I’m sure he’s aware of it.
“But he sees this as ‘look at all this engagement I get for these tweets and then I can tweet out some promotion for some matches for Wednesday and it’ll help boost the rating’, that’s why he does it.”
Following Khan’s outburst and subsequent backlash, Dustin Rhodes called for less tribalism in wrestling. WWE NXT Superstar Edris Enofé had a less friendly message for Tony Khan.
