lol Tony was befuddled that Ariel was an actual journalist. "I don't want to talk about it." Ariel: "Why?" LOL he was not prepared for any follow up to just saying no because he's used to being interviewed by marks.
@@manuelper As an MMA fan after being a wrestling kid in the attitude/ruthless era, Ariel has been the MMA guy for 15 years. Like Jim and Brian just realized he's a seasoned pro as a reporter and Tony finally went up against a nob-lapdog and facepalmed it
Actual journalists don’t take money from organisations they cover. Helwani was a paid UFC shill. And it’s hilarious to compare the softball interview he gave Papa H to what he gave Khan.
Tony Khan has been denying and deflecting questions and critiques for the past three years, so nobody should be shocked by this. He has been getting underhand softballs pitched at him this whole time, so how are people expecting him to answer complex questions.
Helwani is a weasel though. He likes to sh-disturb and make backhanded compliments constantly. Dude's been clowned on by MMA fans for years. It might be why he branched out to pro wrestling cause he's burned bridges with a lot of people involved in MMA.
@@eoghanryan4294 Does Tony Khan ever say anything worth hearing or listening to? Talks so much and says nothing but says it so boring, so banal. The only thing worth looking at is his crazy non-blinking eyes.
tbh Tony was lowkey hilarious when he came up with more creative ways to say 'nah we're not gonna talk about this' and it was increasingly more rude/disrespectful to Halwani but Tony just said it like it was a regular Tuesday lmao
@@teecakes yeah dude he sounded pretty snotty saying "yeah, you can ASK". He is WAY too full of himself for a guy who's never had to work for anything in his life
Ariel - What's the time? Tony - I can't comment on that but I did have some delicious cake at Jericho's birthday party which didn't take place at 9pm in the UK every Friday night
Ariel - Hey so what's the weather been like TK - Again, I can't comment on anything to do with the weather that might affect several people and stuff, but I certainly have been very active looking at the rainy weather in Britain, where we've seen some strong ratings and we moved the show up, Britain has been such a good market for us and having Dynamite on on Friday nights at 8 has served us so well, those British fans are very brand loyal but also hungry for wrestling so it's been a perfect fit, when we approached iTV for the deal, I repeatedly asked them for a weekend gig to get close as possible to the old World of Sports timeslot but unfortunately we couldn't do that so we went with the Friday night slot
Jim- “im not a black belt, I’m a black bitch” Brian instantly saves him from racist accusations by saying that Jim was quoting Brandi. Best podcast lol
Nah... There is some sympathy for your kid or a friend. This is an adult with feeding ego. Perhaps he needs help with Rejection Sensitive Syndrome. Needs therapy.
The fact Corney can think off a solid promo off the top of his head about MJFs contract storyline shows how much experience he has and how desperately TK needs someone like him by his side
That's not even that hard of a situation. Anyone that's ever watched anything regarding business, sports or entertainment contracts has heard it before. "I'm not at liberty to get into details of ongoing negotations, but we blah blah blah....". That's a softball question for someone like Cornette.
Audibly said "OMG" every time Tony said he didn't want to answer that question. Like Jim said, WORK! You're the face of AEW, say something for god's sake! He's so used to guys like Meltzer asking him nothing questions. The difference between Ariel's interview with Tony and Triple H is staggering.
Yeah it was an hour and seventeen minutes. I listened to some of it, thinking it would be like the interview Ariel did with HHH which was really good because HHH was pretty open all things considered. But I made it about 15 minutes in before I accepted that TK was never going to answer anything, continue going on and on with no answers and just spend the entire time promoting whatever show was coming up at the time. And seeing the clip recaps from it I now know that I made a good decision. TK really needs to get a solid PR person to either coach him, handle this stuff for him or both because he came off like such a goof with this.
And I believe the show he spent the entire interview promoting ended up going down like 15% from the prior week and was the lowest Rampage rating since July. Here’s to hoping (although it won’t happen) that TK eventually learns that nobody gives a shit about Battle of the Belts for a company that has overloaded the show with belts and done nothing substantial to make any of them outside of the AEW World Title mean something. And even the AEW Title isn’t because of something he did but more so just because of how great Mox has been.
@@constablekennedy7705 I never thought I would say the same one day. After listening to this interview, and I'm a huge AEW fan, I can understand all the problems of the company come from one man and it's the owner. Someone in the public relations business should give Tony some lessons and tricks and cues. Saying out and loud that you don't want to talk about a journalist questions, is a cardinal sin in communications.
Tony's eyes always kill me. Every time Travis draws him or either its Jim's guest artist. They always draw the eyes like he finished snorting his lines of cocaine.😂😂
Let's be real, Tony Khan is not on cocaine. He's on a MIXTURE of cocaine, Adderall, methamphetamine, and whatever stimulants are immediately available.
@@allisoncox7243 granted that maybe the case. However, we as the common person would give somewhat logical reason as to why we don't want to answer a question, we wouldn't start promoting where we worked as an alternative. Now, to go onto a show knowing the in-depth knowledge of the wrestling business such as Ariel Helwani and essentially waste his time for an hour, you can see how it would get frustrating. I do believe Grand Funk Master Chief could have got his point across in a more sensible way, but such is life I guess.
Was so awkward. Tony just don't come across as a guy who's in charge of a big wrestling company just comes across as a mark talking about his favourite wrestlers
@@lillagahnavich7700 yeah triple h when he was asked about sasha banks wyatt etc he didn't give to much but he still answered the questions an was professional about it where as tony just no sold everything an it made him look like jabroni on a big platform
So this means Tony needs to sell AEW to Vince who will have a nocturnal emission from dissecting this company and then Hunter making it what it should be.
@@lillagahnavich7700 HHH is a real wrestler whose been on both sides of the equation where people thought he wasn't worth anything in WCW and turned out to be one of the greatest heels ever. Tony is just a billionaire son of a billionaire owner who is showing he has no business running a wrestling promotion when he scratches the backs of his friends.
Cornette's talent for being able to extemporaneously verbalize a promo or bullshit response is incredible. The best I ever heard in wrestling. Cornette might disagree with the notion but there has never been a better talker than Cornette in wrestling that I have heard.
After like 3 "i don't wanna talk about it" I would've said "Tony what about cocaine let's talk about cocaine do you enjoy it?" just to mess with him and see his reaction.
TK could easily get AEW some kind of publicity if he would have given SOME type of answer... even a bullshit/worked answer. He sounds so defensive any time someone acts a normal question. Guy is writing the shows and can't even work the guy interviewing him 😂
Yeah well you know it really shouldn't be that remarkable, back in the old days nobody would have been in Tony's position without having the talent to be able to find something to say in a goddamn interview
I'm dying at corny begging tk to work lmao...funny that mjf, punk, Jericho, basically all the boys feel totally comfortable speaking their minds about backstage or contracts, meanwhile tk is in the witness protection program
Remember the angle with Cm Punk saying he was going to leave WWE, Jims not wrong acting as if he could leave, could draw more people to be interested if they used that as an angle down the line because you blur the lines if it's legit or not.
I feel confident that "Heelwani" would have given TK a piece of time to work the MJF angle if TK would have wanted to. Ariel's a journalist, but he's also friends with Paul Heyman and his heel work on the Pat McAfee Show is on point. Major missed opportunity for TK.
@@SubtlyPoor He's in way over his head. If he had no plan to put over the company or put over the talent, what in the world was he doing there? Ariel was throwing him softballs and he was acting like he was being cross-examined by Camille Vasquez. In the end, all he got out it was an interview where he sounded like a petulant child and Heelwani cutting an awesome promo on his "9000 titles" company. +1 for username. Half of Southwestern Alberta's best crime fighting duo.
Just watch the Triple H interview with Helwani back-to-back with Tony Kahn's interview with him if you're a young talent with a lot of promise. You can figure out which guy you want to be signing your paychecks later in life
When looking at how things have gone over the past year or so I’m not sure why any young wrestler who has an offer from both companies would ever sign with AEW. I can see why people went there intially when it was being portrayed at this land of creativity and a locker room paradise. But now that you see that hardly anybody who made the move from WWE to AEW has fared any better there outside of the top guys like Mox or Danielson I can’t see what would even tempt you about it anymore. Especially now that the biggest headache in WWE (Vince) is gone. Outside of older wrestlers who want to work a light schedule for a large amount of money I can’t imagine anything about AEW that would appeal over WWE now. Once the current WWE transfers leave id be genuinely for anybody to choose AEW outside of being released by WWE and needing a job.
As it relates to talent i imagine they’ll become what TNA once was: a place where unknowns can get known to go to WWE or older WWE guys go for a light schedule.
@@Matt-cr4vv Except now WWE has just as light of a schedule. WWE can keep an older guy around on a minimal contract without having to work excessive dates.
No wonder Khan wants AEW fans at his press scrums, instead of real journalists. He doesn't know to answer questions asking for real info, not for pandering to him.
Its because he's living out *his* own personal fantasy. He's playing with his action figures and creating this world where he's the supreme lord and ruler. Literally like an actual man-child who didn't get enough love growing up and has to escape to an imaginary play land. So when real people ask him real questions, he has NO CLUE how to answer them. It's absolutely bizarre.
Holy shit, this is funny af. Tony doesn't answer a damn thing. Like Cornette said, it's the first time I've seen someone plead the fifth in a sports interview.
This clip made my day 😂😂 On a serious note i fully agree with helwani's rant about Tony. It was very frustrating even as a listener that he refused to answer any of his questions and had his guard up from the very beginning
Right, why even do the damn thing? At least the interview isn't completely worthless, it further revealed how clueless Tony Khantana really is at trying to play wrestling booker 🤷♂️
Coming back to this now that Punk has done an interview with Helwai, we know why Tony couldn't comment on the status of CM Punk: BECAUSE HE DIDN'T TALK TO PUNK FOR 6 MONTH!
Ariel was spitting straight facts in this interview. No If, Ends, or Buts. Ive watched plenty of Tony Khan interviews. He literally does this every single interview. Although this was the worst one because he doesn't trust Ariel at all it seems, while he is an unbiased journalist who asks hard hitting questions to everyone he interviews. Unlike everyone else who interviews Tony Khan. Every interview is Tony going on and on about upcoming shows and every show that has happened in the past. Let me add I am a fan of AEW so im not just hating on him for the sake of hating them.
If someone ever said "Because it doesn't serve me" as an actual response, I would smack the absolute dogshit out of them and probably get arrested for assault. The absolute disrespect to use someone's platform and say "I don't want to answer that question because it doesn't serve me" when you are on THEIR FUCKING PLATFORM to promote your shitty ass show, congrats. Ariel Helwani didn't deserve that at all. We also gotta quit pretending the WWE product is actually good now, it's still boring.
@@3DBrawlChannel All he had to say was that they will let her perform as her health permits. Very safe answer, totally non-committal. Instead, all of the evasiveness comes across as deliberate, backhanded disrespect.
This interview sounded like what happens when you let your friends get you a date, it sounds good in paper but when reality hits, it's just an awkward conversation
@@lracseroom8286 good point. Regardless of what he was actually doing, could you imagine Vince McMahon (or any of the big wigs in WWE or WCW for that matter) sitting in on an interview (or any meeting) and 40 minutes into an interview being like “I’m gonna take a ‘leak’, BRB” Unprofessionalism oozes from AEW faster than blood oozes from Moxley’s head
@@britz9418 I’m guessing that Joe Rogan’s guests don’t normally try to wrap the interview up 5 minutes after their ‘piss’ break tho. I bet that during his break he did his line and got reamed out by the AEW PR person about going over his allotted interview time.
Corny being able to just rattle off basic psychology in how you can work an interview like this is so refreshing. It's so easy for him how is this not the mentality across the board?
Tony comes off as a petulant passive aggressive schmuck. He is what's wrong with society at large, evading answering being the insulated authority figure. The questions are not safe' enough. He's such a Libra, really one of the reasons why that sign catches the most flack
@@outstretchedwings y'all motherfuckas have never been around coke heads. Never once have I seen Tony just randomly tap one of his nostrils. Go watch clips of Chuck Barris on the Gong Show from the 1970s. That dude is constantly reaching up, and plugging one of his nostrils out of pure reflect. Tony Khan speaks like somebody who is afraid to speak publicly
I genuinely couldn't believe so many people were defending Tony Khan's performance here. A reporter is supposed to push. That's what they're for. Just last week I was reading an interview in El Pais where a Spanish politician gave the same non-answer six or seven times and the reporter kept circling back until she gave the paper something concrete. That's how an interview is supposed to go. It's not like Helwani is asking about personal family matters here. He just wanted Tony on record about the company Tony is supposedly the boss of.
Ariel can be a real shit stirrer and hasn't been much of an angel. But dammit, he's one of the only guys out there that's not afraid to bust some balls now.
Ariel’s M.O. has always been asking the questions that will bring the most attention to himself. It has worked out well for him obviously, but most people would have pivoted and tried to at least get a listenable interview out of TK. Ariel will just rephrase and follow up over and over which made it even more awkward. So in that sense I think he’s equally to blame. He only wanted to cover things TK wasn’t interested in talking about.
@@MrElephantBeach TK's M.O. is to be bitch boy to select people in his locker room, thus letting them embarrass him to the point where the vast majority thinks he's a spineless mark. And when you've been relegated to that, it is going to be hard to answer those questions.. he still has to babysit those egos that he nurtured and let take over. So it's not because he didn't want to answer, it's because he can't, because he has no balls and the environment is dysfunctional and fragile due to him having no balls
This is a great example of how Tony doesn't understand the pro wrestling business and is an awful spokesman for his company. He lacks any experience to turn an interview into an additional vehicle for the on-screen angles.
Tony Khan-"I don't like all these dirt sheet reporters making stuff up and gossiping." Also, Tony Khan-"Why are these sports journalists asking me real questions. Didn't he get the pre-approved PR questions we gave to the dirt sheet guys?"
And since then all Dirt sheet writers have been banned from post-PPV media scrums. From now on the only partipant will be Peter Avalon wielding a pencil and working a dirt sheet writer gimmick. TK’s paranoia knows no bounds now, the guy is cracking
This is why I tell you everyone who will listen: Tony is a bad leader. He has the number one red flag of one. He’s more concerned about appearances than he is focused on genuinely addresses the people and issues he’s paid to address. This interview may be THE main exhibit to that claim. He even articulates at one point after refusing to answer:” I don’t think it will serve me well.” His entire attitude is concealing. Coverup. Evasive. He comes off like Jim said. Like someone who doesn’t want to Incriminate himself. None of this was promoted or initiated by Ariel it was all caused by Tony, why? Because this is what is inside of his mind. Yikes.
Tony we know you're listening to Cornette's podcast Cornette is giving you free booking ideas on the fly. Just steal Cornette's ideas on how to book MJF.
17:40 Tony doesn't want to talk about Bray because he did make an offer but Bray turned him down. Bray's got enough friends there to know that the grass isn't greener
The dumbest thing he said, and one of most inane things I have EVER heard was when talking about AEW in Uk... That line about AEW being the number 1 wreslting show in the UK in the world??? WTF...1🤯
I live in the UK. WWE is broadcast on BT Sport, a premium paid sports channel comparable to ESPN in the US. AEW shows air on ITV4, a free TV channel that also broadcasts cult classic movies, classic action series' from the 60s, 70s and 80s, as well as a number of sporting events such as Horse Racing, Darts, Snooker and some less high profile Boxing and Football/Soccer matches. It's a fringe channel and Dynamite is broadcast at 1am UK time. If they get more than 10,000 viewers a week, I'd be amazed, every single one of which are already wrestling fans who have to actively seek it out.
Jim is right. If you’re on a show like this, work the interviewer. Get over some storylines. The fact that he refused to talk about MJF’s contract situation was a massive missed opportunity. MJF has been talking about it and he’s worked everyone, including Ariel Helwani. Tony needs to talk with MJF and get some tips on working journalists.
Aaah I have to admit, Jim's idea of how Tony should have answered the question about MJF would have been amazing! Would definitely have gained some respect for Khan if he had done something like that.
lol Tony was befuddled that Ariel was an actual journalist. "I don't want to talk about it." Ariel: "Why?" LOL he was not prepared for any follow up to just saying no because he's used to being interviewed by marks.
That's what makes Tony look bad here ...bc HHH did one of his best interviews with Ariel a lil over a month ago
This interview is an amazing one-man car crash.
@@manuelper As an MMA fan after being a wrestling kid in the attitude/ruthless era, Ariel has been the MMA guy for 15 years. Like Jim and Brian just realized he's a seasoned pro as a reporter and Tony finally went up against a nob-lapdog and facepalmed it
Actual journalists don’t take money from organisations they cover. Helwani was a paid UFC shill. And it’s hilarious to compare the softball interview he gave Papa H to what he gave Khan.
Tony Khan has been denying and deflecting questions and critiques for the past three years, so nobody should be shocked by this. He has been getting underhand softballs pitched at him this whole time, so how are people expecting him to answer complex questions.
There's a reason Ariel has never been in a post-PPV media scrum. Because he's not just going to blow TK and tell him how great he is like Alvarez
Don't forget Dave Meltzer.....he do's same thing Alvarez do's.
I have never listened to an interview as long as this and come out of it with zero information.
Exactly Bro ….
Tony Khan just wanted to be Told how Amazing he is and how the ‘Demo’ Ratings are Awesome etc etc ….. 🤦🏿♂️
Helwani is a weasel though. He likes to sh-disturb and make backhanded compliments constantly. Dude's been clowned on by MMA fans for years. It might be why he branched out to pro wrestling cause he's burned bridges with a lot of people involved in MMA.
Ariel versus Tony is a heel program, but Alvarez, how the mighty have fallen, unless he's gotten a huge windfall from AEW.
While worrying about being embarrassed by Ariel, Tony did that all on his own.
All on his own !!! He's like an emotional child this was a horrible interview " I don't wanna talk about ".
@@Melo_Soul how does that man write the show????
Could have just given some answer (probably a worked answer)
@@shahanahsan05 exactly , now we can see that he really doesn't know what he's doing and needs help
It was a pointless interview...khan said nothing worth hearing or listening to.
@@eoghanryan4294 Does Tony Khan ever say anything worth hearing or listening to? Talks so much and says nothing but says it so boring, so banal. The only thing worth looking at is his crazy non-blinking eyes.
Corny and Brian busting out laughing after Tony saying no to answering each question is absolutely hilarious 💀😂😂😂
tbh Tony was lowkey hilarious when he came up with more creative ways to say 'nah we're not gonna talk about this' and it was increasingly more rude/disrespectful to Halwani but Tony just said it like it was a regular Tuesday lmao
@@teecakes yeah I thought that too lol
Tony cracked me up.
It is worth seeing the whole thing
No comment 🤣🤣
@@teecakes yeah dude he sounded pretty snotty saying "yeah, you can ASK". He is WAY too full of himself for a guy who's never had to work for anything in his life
I love how Jim just cuts a swank promo off the top of his head on how he would have booked the MJF contract dispute storyline. 👌
So quick too meanwhile Tony during the whole interview couldn’t think of anything to both promote the show and his talent in a good way
Lets just gofundme a Jim Cornette promotion lol
That speaks volumes about how much talent and experience he has.
@@oceanshrugs9235 lol
Yeah dude, what Corney said he would have said there, would have worked fucking fantastically
No one can convince me that Tony didn't go to the restroom for the sole purpose of doing another line of coke.
😂
Glad I'm not the only one that noticed the change in him 😂
honestly, I agree with Brian, he ain't on coke, his focus is way too fucked for it to be coke, I reckon it's speed
Adderall
@@eiephants another strong contender
Ariel - What's the time?
Tony - I can't comment on that but I did have some delicious cake at Jericho's birthday party which didn't take place at 9pm in the UK every Friday night
Ariel - Hey so what's the weather been like
TK - Again, I can't comment on anything to do with the weather that might affect several people and stuff, but I certainly have been very active looking at the rainy weather in Britain, where we've seen some strong ratings and we moved the show up, Britain has been such a good market for us and having Dynamite on on Friday nights at 8 has served us so well, those British fans are very brand loyal but also hungry for wrestling so it's been a perfect fit, when we approached iTV for the deal, I repeatedly asked them for a weekend gig to get close as possible to the old World of Sports timeslot but unfortunately we couldn't do that so we went with the Friday night slot
Jim- “im not a black belt, I’m a black bitch”
Brian instantly saves him from racist accusations by saying that Jim was quoting Brandi. Best podcast lol
she definitely is
He was quick with that one.
watch it get spread out of context tho
What would jim be without Brian? Lol even with the ads sometimes, Brian's there to save the day
@@mckali9999 probably an inmate 😂
When he says “I don’t wanna talk about *blank*” he sounds like a kid who’s being asked about his day at school that had a bad day.
Methinks TK gets some of his cues from former Aussie crime-minister Scott "I don't hold a hose, mate" Morrison aka Scotty From Marketing X-P
Nah... There is some sympathy for your kid or a friend. This is an adult with feeding ego. Perhaps he needs help with Rejection Sensitive Syndrome. Needs therapy.
The fact Corney can think off a solid promo off the top of his head about MJFs contract storyline shows how much experience he has and how desperately TK needs someone like him by his side
What do you mean? He has Jericho
That's not even that hard of a situation. Anyone that's ever watched anything regarding business, sports or entertainment contracts has heard it before. "I'm not at liberty to get into details of ongoing negotations, but we blah blah blah....". That's a softball question for someone like Cornette.
You can tell Kahn just don’t have the respect of someone in a position of power
that's children of billionaires in a nutshell lol
He needs to establish Command presence and stop taking shit
what does that mean
@@erickmack4131 he does way to many interviews
@@johnmorrison6287 This shit came out of nowhere and has fuck all to do with this comment section let alone video, but as an Aussie I can dig it lol.
Jim just casually cuts a creative promo off the dome on the MJF situation.
its painfully obvious Tony Khan should never be allowed in front of the media. He has no idea how to act as a wrestling promoter
Yes, Tony Khan is on the spectrum and desperately needs PR training and just human training in general.
I think it's just youth and lack of self awareness... Maybe he will grow out of it.. maybe
@@erickmack4131 dude is 40...can't be youth lol
@@JamesJohnson-tr1gu well damn I never knew how old he was lol touché
@@johnmorrison6287 stop talking about your dad like that
@@johnmorrison6287 French kiss the barrel of a loaded pistol
Audibly said "OMG" every time Tony said he didn't want to answer that question. Like Jim said, WORK! You're the face of AEW, say something for god's sake! He's so used to guys like Meltzer asking him nothing questions. The difference between Ariel's interview with Tony and Triple H is staggering.
Ariel didn’t question HHH about the Vince McMahon allegations. That interview was a softball. Cmon lol
@@Eagles2020 you AEW fans are sinking like a rock
The fact he doesn’t even understand the concept of working says a lot about how AEW is run.
Tony is so unbearable in these small clips. I can only imagine how frustrated Ariel must have been. I think the interview was over an hour.
Yeah it was an hour and seventeen minutes. I listened to some of it, thinking it would be like the interview Ariel did with HHH which was really good because HHH was pretty open all things considered. But I made it about 15 minutes in before I accepted that TK was never going to answer anything, continue going on and on with no answers and just spend the entire time promoting whatever show was coming up at the time. And seeing the clip recaps from it I now know that I made a good decision. TK really needs to get a solid PR person to either coach him, handle this stuff for him or both because he came off like such a goof with this.
And I believe the show he spent the entire interview promoting ended up going down like 15% from the prior week and was the lowest Rampage rating since July. Here’s to hoping (although it won’t happen) that TK eventually learns that nobody gives a shit about Battle of the Belts for a company that has overloaded the show with belts and done nothing substantial to make any of them outside of the AEW World Title mean something. And even the AEW Title isn’t because of something he did but more so just because of how great Mox has been.
Tony Khan is an Embarrassment to be Honest ….. 🤷🏿♂️
@@constablekennedy7705 I never thought I would say the same one day. After listening to this interview, and I'm a huge AEW fan, I can understand all the problems of the company come from one man and it's the owner. Someone in the public relations business should give Tony some lessons and tricks and cues. Saying out and loud that you don't want to talk about a journalist questions, is a cardinal sin in communications.
@@racineurr.8924 Agreed Bro 💯
That was incredible listening to Jim pull a fucking amazing, realistic promo out of the very same questions Tony fucked up like a soup sandwich.
Tony's eyes always kill me. Every time Travis draws him or either its Jim's guest artist. They always draw the eyes like he finished snorting his lines of cocaine.😂😂
so... super lifelike? haha
It’s Hilarious Bro and should become a Meme for sure …. 🙏🏿
Let's be real, Tony Khan is not on cocaine. He's on a MIXTURE of cocaine, Adderall, methamphetamine, and whatever stimulants are immediately available.
@@jimreily7538 He uses caffeine pills as sleep aids.
Tony Khan is living proof of the phrase Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt. What a f*cking mark.
Ronan Keating predicted Tony Khan's career in this one song lyric (You say it best, when you say nothing at all) 😂
He is a bit of a B word .
Have you ever answered every single question you have been ask in life? I am sure you haven't
@@allisoncox7243 granted that maybe the case. However, we as the common person would give somewhat logical reason as to why we don't want to answer a question, we wouldn't start promoting where we worked as an alternative.
Now, to go onto a show knowing the in-depth knowledge of the wrestling business such as Ariel Helwani and essentially waste his time for an hour, you can see how it would get frustrating.
I do believe Grand Funk Master Chief could have got his point across in a more sensible way, but such is life I guess.
Very telling that he cannot even grasp the concept of a worked answer.
Was so awkward. Tony just don't come across as a guy who's in charge of a big wrestling company just comes across as a mark talking about his favourite wrestlers
That's what makes Tony look bad here ...bc HHH did one of his best interviews with Ariel a lil over a month ago
@@lillagahnavich7700 yeah triple h when he was asked about sasha banks wyatt etc he didn't give to much but he still answered the questions an was professional about it where as tony just no sold everything an it made him look like jabroni on a big platform
Thats because…
So this means Tony needs to sell AEW to Vince who will have a nocturnal emission from dissecting this company and then Hunter making it what it should be.
@@lillagahnavich7700 HHH is a real wrestler whose been on both sides of the equation where people thought he wasn't worth anything in WCW and turned out to be one of the greatest heels ever. Tony is just a billionaire son of a billionaire owner who is showing he has no business running a wrestling promotion when he scratches the backs of his friends.
Cornette's talent for being able to extemporaneously verbalize a promo or bullshit response is incredible. The best I ever heard in wrestling. Cornette might disagree with the notion but there has never been a better talker than Cornette in wrestling that I have heard.
Agreed 💯
Yeah, I DARE someone to name ANY one better
he is a wordsmith for sure
This is the most awkward interview ever…. Old T.K does not disappoint
ol' Tony Khan, still curious what goddamn drugs he's on
He is such an Effeminate & Petulant Fella that it’s actually Astounding …. 🤦🏿♂️
TK is the awkward aspergers gift that keeps on giving
@@pjludda4323 the mental image of HBK being TK's drug dealer is a hilarious mental image
New T.K. doesn't disappoint either. He's trying to run AEW into the ground faster than Ultimate Warrior beat Triple H at Mania 12
After like 3 "i don't wanna talk about it" I would've said "Tony what about cocaine let's talk about cocaine do you enjoy it?" just to mess with him and see his reaction.
"Adderall, cocaine, any stimulant I'm all about it"- TK
Take a redbull grind some adderall into it, throw in some cocaine and a splash of coffee and baby you got the khan cocktail
@@elmase2163 I miss those days but even then I wouldn't want to have the responsibilities Tony does to do all he does lol
"Cocaine. what are your thoughts about it?
Do you prefer using the left or right nostril? "
"WhatiscocaineIveneverheardofcocaineIcertainlyhaveneverdonecocaine...*sniff*...."
TK could easily get AEW some kind of publicity if he would have given SOME type of answer... even a bullshit/worked answer. He sounds so defensive any time someone acts a normal question. Guy is writing the shows and can't even work the guy interviewing him 😂
That's the funniest part he cant even give troll answers just said no comment 😂😂 why even do the interview lol
@@johnmorrison6287 Do a beer bong of antifreeze.
Who is back after the Punk interview?
Jim's version of how he would have answered those, and how quickly he just kneejerk gives his version, shows what a genius in the business Jim is.
Yeah well you know it really shouldn't be that remarkable, back in the old days nobody would have been in Tony's position without having the talent to be able to find something to say in a goddamn interview
But yes, JC is a goddamn wrestling genius
I'm dying at corny begging tk to work lmao...funny that mjf, punk, Jericho, basically all the boys feel totally comfortable speaking their minds about backstage or contracts, meanwhile tk is in the witness protection program
Remember the angle with Cm Punk saying he was going to leave WWE, Jims not wrong acting as if he could leave, could draw more people to be interested if they used that as an angle down the line because you blur the lines if it's legit or not.
LEARN TO WORK MARK! basicaly lol. I was dying too.
I’m Loving the fact that Jim Cornette Addressed the Elephant in the Room about ALL the Work that Paige has done to her Face …. 💀
But that's the problem. He's biased.
Witness protection program hahahahaha
I feel confident that "Heelwani" would have given TK a piece of time to work the MJF angle if TK would have wanted to. Ariel's a journalist, but he's also friends with Paul Heyman and his heel work on the Pat McAfee Show is on point. Major missed opportunity for TK.
Yeah Ariel definitely would’ve played along cause he’s a huge mark but Tony didn’t give him shit to work with
TK doesn't know what he's doing, does he?
@@SubtlyPoor He's in way over his head. If he had no plan to put over the company or put over the talent, what in the world was he doing there? Ariel was throwing him softballs and he was acting like he was being cross-examined by Camille Vasquez. In the end, all he got out it was an interview where he sounded like a petulant child and Heelwani cutting an awesome promo on his "9000 titles" company.
+1 for username. Half of Southwestern Alberta's best crime fighting duo.
Didn't make tk red, so Heelwani hates Pat confirmed
Just watch the Triple H interview with Helwani back-to-back with Tony Kahn's interview with him if you're a young talent with a lot of promise. You can figure out which guy you want to be signing your paychecks later in life
When looking at how things have gone over the past year or so I’m not sure why any young wrestler who has an offer from both companies would ever sign with AEW.
I can see why people went there intially when it was being portrayed at this land of creativity and a locker room paradise. But now that you see that hardly anybody who made the move from WWE to AEW has fared any better there outside of the top guys like Mox or Danielson I can’t see what would even tempt you about it anymore. Especially now that the biggest headache in WWE (Vince) is gone.
Outside of older wrestlers who want to work a light schedule for a large amount of money I can’t imagine anything about AEW that would appeal over WWE now. Once the current WWE transfers leave id be genuinely for anybody to choose AEW outside of being released by WWE and needing a job.
As it relates to talent i imagine they’ll become what TNA once was: a place where unknowns can get known to go to WWE or older WWE guys go for a light schedule.
@@Matt-cr4vv the cm punk , hangman page and bucks with omega really destroyed that reputation
@@Matt-cr4vv Except now WWE has just as light of a schedule. WWE can keep an older guy around on a minimal contract without having to work excessive dates.
No wonder Khan wants AEW fans at his press scrums, instead of real journalists. He doesn't know to answer questions asking for real info, not for pandering to him.
Its because he's living out *his* own personal fantasy. He's playing with his action figures and creating this world where he's the supreme lord and ruler.
Literally like an actual man-child who didn't get enough love growing up and has to escape to an imaginary play land.
So when real people ask him real questions, he has NO CLUE how to answer them. It's absolutely bizarre.
@@josevillarreal5955 just no capacity to think up even a kayfabe answer that might make his shows more interesting to watch.
Holy shit, this is funny af. Tony doesn't answer a damn thing. Like Cornette said, it's the first time I've seen someone plead the fifth in a sports interview.
This clip made my day 😂😂
On a serious note i fully agree with helwani's rant about Tony. It was very frustrating even as a listener that he refused to answer any of his questions and had his guard up from the very beginning
Right, why even do the damn thing? At least the interview isn't completely worthless, it further revealed how clueless Tony Khantana really is at trying to play wrestling booker 🤷♂️
@@lostinthought7349 exactly! Cause hes so used to being interviewed by fans who want to talk about the matches
part of it is because ariel has a relationship with wwe
Yes, seriously, why bother? TK just wasted everyone's fucking time. Listening to it, I get frustrated FOR Helwani
@@jacemacfie1475he should just refuse to do an interview instead of wasting everyone time
Tony’s “bathroom” break? Somebody needed to powder their nose!
I live in England and was today years old when I learned AEW is on ITV...that's how much of a splash it has made
Same. ITV2 at that.
I watched ep1 - ep3 of Dynamite when it first launched. Haven't watched AEW since.
wait, it's on itv? lmao
Coming back to this now that Punk has done an interview with Helwai, we know why Tony couldn't comment on the status of CM Punk: BECAUSE HE DIDN'T TALK TO PUNK FOR 6 MONTH!
Imagine if Vince McMahon answered JR the same way TK did about the Montreal Screwjob....
Lol now I can't get this out of my head
@darylaiken "I didn't screw Tony. Tony screwed Tony."
"There's a time honored tradition... and I don't want to talk about it"
Ariel was spitting straight facts in this interview. No If, Ends, or Buts.
Ive watched plenty of Tony Khan interviews. He literally does this every single interview. Although this was the worst one because he doesn't trust Ariel at all it seems, while he is an unbiased journalist who asks hard hitting questions to everyone he interviews. Unlike everyone else who interviews Tony Khan. Every interview is Tony going on and on about upcoming shows and every show that has happened in the past.
Let me add I am a fan of AEW so im not just hating on him for the sake of hating them.
If someone ever said "Because it doesn't serve me" as an actual response, I would smack the absolute dogshit out of them and probably get arrested for assault. The absolute disrespect to use someone's platform and say "I don't want to answer that question because it doesn't serve me" when you are on THEIR FUCKING PLATFORM to promote your shitty ass show, congrats. Ariel Helwani didn't deserve that at all. We also gotta quit pretending the WWE product is actually good now, it's still boring.
Here after the cm punk interview
Same here Tony Khan is an idiot.
Between all the non-answers and the bathroom break, TK is a living, breathing meme machine. 😆😅🤣
Cocaine Tony
“TONY LIEEEE!! WORK!!!!” 💀💀
Why was he so evasive with Saraya? I thought that was a softball question.
I think Tony had thrown all his toys out of the pram by that point
@@3DBrawlChannel All he had to say was that they will let her perform as her health permits. Very safe answer, totally non-committal. Instead, all of the evasiveness comes across as deliberate, backhanded disrespect.
@@MortimerZabi he just wants to keep what she’s doing as a surprise to boost his ratings on a pop that she’ll wrestle again
@@subxzero10000 The fans will pop, and so will Saraya's neck if she's not extra careful.
@@3DBrawlChannel the fans are mental health patients with a savings account
Jim rattled off a full promo off the top of his head like it was nothing.
Tony recently attacked Ariel on Twitter the day before Elimination Chamber. He's still mad about this 😂.
This interview sounded like what happens when you let your friends get you a date, it sounds good in paper but when reality hits, it's just an awkward conversation
Sometimes you wanna choke Tony like Homer does Bart with these answers😭
I know why Khan didn’t want to talk with Helwani but I can not talk about that.
... Did Tony Khan actually take a piss break in the middle of this interview? It’s hilarious that they didn’t edit that out
Would have been funny if he had a live mic like on in the naked gun
yes...a "piss break" not a coke/ adderall break.
@@lracseroom8286 good point. Regardless of what he was actually doing, could you imagine Vince McMahon (or any of the big wigs in WWE or WCW for that matter) sitting in on an interview (or any meeting) and 40 minutes into an interview being like “I’m gonna take a ‘leak’, BRB”
Unprofessionalism oozes from AEW faster than blood oozes from Moxley’s head
@@garrettkeithr To be fair, guests on Joe Rogan usually do take a piss break when they've been talking for 3 hours straight.
@@britz9418 I’m guessing that Joe Rogan’s guests don’t normally try to wrap the interview up 5 minutes after their ‘piss’ break tho. I bet that during his break he did his line and got reamed out by the AEW PR person about going over his allotted interview time.
Tony's really having a hard time connecting with people
@@JustinK6664 Or any other unhinged narcissist.
"Buuut Daaaaad, Hunter got an interview with Ariel, I want one too!"
I dunno, its just funny that TK has one as soon as Hunter does.
While hunters was praised and his was such as embarrassment
The noise Jim made after he went on a rant and said “sh*t like that”. Like he really can’t believe this sh*t happened 😂😂
Always love the quality of Jim’s promo just off the top of his head. So great.
Imagine Cornette invading an AEW show and sayin: "TONY....TONY.....WHYYYYYY?!" 🤣
He said "lie"
@@snbg93 My bad, the 'rona is making me slightly deaf 😅
Tony would Shyt bricks !!
Corny being able to just rattle off basic psychology in how you can work an interview like this is so refreshing. It's so easy for him how is this not the mentality across the board?
Probably the first time anyone has grouped: Roddy Piper, Ric Flair, _Chris Jericho_ 😂
How Jim is able to pull gold fresh from his ass that is light years better than what we actually see and hear will always blow me away.
Whatever the opposite of "controversy creates cash" is..that was it.
Dollars Down the Drain, or something like that I dunno.
Jim off the top of his head with a great promo.
Over a year later and nothing has changed he's still a bad politician 😁
Tony Khan" I see everything I hear everything and I know nothing nothing!" 🤣😳
Tony comes off as a petulant passive aggressive schmuck. He is what's wrong with society at large, evading answering being the insulated authority figure. The questions are not safe' enough. He's such a Libra, really one of the reasons why that sign catches the most flack
Libra to a T. Can’t confront, but passive aggressive
The Dunning-Kruger effect is strong with Tony Khan.
Herb Abrams would be proud of Tony.
Hopefully, he’s not doing coke too
@@outstretchedwings Nah, he's doing space coke.
It's highly likely it's Adderall that's he's taking
@@outstretchedwings y'all motherfuckas have never been around coke heads. Never once have I seen Tony just randomly tap one of his nostrils. Go watch clips of Chuck Barris on the Gong Show from the 1970s. That dude is constantly reaching up, and plugging one of his nostrils out of pure reflect. Tony Khan speaks like somebody who is afraid to speak publicly
Herb Abrams > Tony Khan
He’s not media trained at all
Ex Aussie PM Scott Morrison's Belly dangles left and right while he is roaming on the beach. Also a black wax comes out of his belly button
Absolutely.....the guy comes off like a meth addict on TV 🤣
Bet TK wrote and made himself sign a NDA
I genuinely couldn't believe so many people were defending Tony Khan's performance here. A reporter is supposed to push. That's what they're for. Just last week I was reading an interview in El Pais where a Spanish politician gave the same non-answer six or seven times and the reporter kept circling back until she gave the paper something concrete. That's how an interview is supposed to go.
It's not like Helwani is asking about personal family matters here. He just wanted Tony on record about the company Tony is supposedly the boss of.
I don't understand what anyone could be mad at Ariel for. He's asking about stuff that we all want to know about. What a complete wast of time....
Ariel can be a real shit stirrer and hasn't been much of an angel. But dammit, he's one of the only guys out there that's not afraid to bust some balls now.
It's just the virgin aew marks...no surprise at all
Ariel’s M.O. has always been asking the questions that will bring the most attention to himself. It has worked out well for him obviously, but most people would have pivoted and tried to at least get a listenable interview out of TK. Ariel will just rephrase and follow up over and over which made it even more awkward. So in that sense I think he’s equally to blame. He only wanted to cover things TK wasn’t interested in talking about.
@@MrElephantBeach TK's M.O. is to be bitch boy to select people in his locker room, thus letting them embarrass him to the point where the vast majority thinks he's a spineless mark. And when you've been relegated to that, it is going to be hard to answer those questions.. he still has to babysit those egos that he nurtured and let take over. So it's not because he didn't want to answer, it's because he can't, because he has no balls and the environment is dysfunctional and fragile due to him having no balls
@@MrElephantBeach I've always hated Ariel ever since early UFC. Watching Dana shit on him non stop was so fun
This is a great example of how Tony doesn't understand the pro wrestling business and is an awful spokesman for his company. He lacks any experience to turn an interview into an additional vehicle for the on-screen angles.
Tony Khan-"I don't like all these dirt sheet reporters making stuff up and gossiping." Also, Tony Khan-"Why are these sports journalists asking me real questions. Didn't he get the pre-approved PR questions we gave to the dirt sheet guys?"
And since then all
Dirt sheet writers have been banned from post-PPV media scrums. From now on the only partipant will be Peter Avalon wielding a pencil and working a dirt sheet writer gimmick. TK’s paranoia knows no bounds now, the guy is cracking
@nbaldwin45 Maybe Tony will invite Shane Helms to the next scrum, and is anything breaks loose, the Hurricane can swoop in and break it up.
@@rl318 :D
This is why I tell you everyone who will listen: Tony is a bad leader. He has the number one red flag of one. He’s more concerned about appearances than he is focused on genuinely addresses the people and issues he’s paid to address. This interview may be THE main exhibit to that claim. He even articulates at one point after refusing to answer:” I don’t think it will serve me well.” His entire attitude is concealing. Coverup. Evasive. He comes off like Jim said. Like someone who doesn’t want to Incriminate himself. None of this was promoted or initiated by Ariel it was all caused by Tony, why? Because this is what is inside of his mind. Yikes.
Back here for another listen for reasons that should be obvious 😆 🤣
If I were Ariel I would have terminated the interview as soon as he started refusing to answer questions, what an absolute joke of an "interview".
I'd watch it.. but I cannot deal with Tony Khan talking 😂. So Jim breaking it down it is
@9:26 its sounds like Jim was having an OVW Vietnam War flashback, coaching a clueless rookie through the basics 😂😂😂
Tony we know you're listening to Cornette's podcast Cornette is giving you free booking ideas on the fly. Just steal Cornette's ideas on how to book MJF.
Going back to these old videos for the context for the shit show that is unfurling with Tony Khan and AEW 😂
Ariel nicknaming Tony "The Great" has aged tremendously
17:40 Tony doesn't want to talk about Bray because he did make an offer but Bray turned him down. Bray's got enough friends there to know that the grass isn't greener
Jesus!! Jim crushed Saraya. 😂🤣😂 She should show up with Cinnamon Rolls frosting on her face, even more would recognize him.
Tony thought he was gonna get “scrum” bullshit wrestling questions lol. He wanted to get patted on the back.
At what point does he tell Tony to "get the f*** out of here before I throw you the f*** out of here"?
You CAN ask
You can ASK
YOU can ask
YOU CAN ASK
But
I CAN NOT ANSWER THAT
Repeat this for twenty F'in mins 😂😂🤣🤣😄😄
TK: "In the UK AEW is the no 1 wrestling company in the world." That makes no sense.
And is a lie besides
"Well my dad owns the place but I run it."
"Oh you're one of those!"
The dumbest thing he said, and one of most inane things I have EVER heard was when talking about AEW in Uk...
That line about AEW being the number 1 wreslting show in the UK in the world??? WTF...1🤯
Khan thinking the mention of a contract means he has to list the full details of it
Tony is just embarrassing at times... how can anyone who isn’t a blind aew mark even take the guy remotely seriously
I live in the UK. WWE is broadcast on BT Sport, a premium paid sports channel comparable to ESPN in the US.
AEW shows air on ITV4, a free TV channel that also broadcasts cult classic movies, classic action series' from the 60s, 70s and 80s, as well as a number of sporting events such as Horse Racing, Darts, Snooker and some less high profile Boxing and Football/Soccer matches. It's a fringe channel and Dynamite is broadcast at 1am UK time. If they get more than 10,000 viewers a week, I'd be amazed, every single one of which are already wrestling fans who have to actively seek it out.
Minder is still the best thing on ITV4
Jim is right. If you’re on a show like this, work the interviewer. Get over some storylines. The fact that he refused to talk about MJF’s contract situation was a massive missed opportunity. MJF has been talking about it and he’s worked everyone, including Ariel Helwani. Tony needs to talk with MJF and get some tips on working journalists.
And considering Ariel’s fandom of wrestling he probably would’ve been happy to go along with it within reason.
@@Matt-cr4vv Exactly. You have to be a complete failure for Ariel to come down on you.
Tony "No Comment" Khan..
Once again proving Tony Khan is the Rube Goldberg of answering questions...with no definitive answer.
" Tony!!! ......Tony!!! Lie, work!!! Hahahaha!!!
The books that are going to be written eventually about what a douchebag Tony Khan is are going to be phenomenal.
I dont think hes a douche, just out of his depth with wrestling
@@jamespaul6315 He's a tool. Spoiled little rich kid who likes the smell of his farts.
"Tony, what kind of toppings do you like on your pizza?"
"I understand why you had to ask, but I don't want to talk about that."
This is brilliant radio! Brilliant!!!
Tony doesn't know how to control his narrative.
LMFAO Good One 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ex Aussie PM Scott Morrison's Belly dangles left and right while he is roaming on the beach. Also a black wax comes out of his belly button
@@johnmorrison6287 who??
I don't want to talk about it.
-Tony Khan
Aaah I have to admit, Jim's idea of how Tony should have answered the question about MJF would have been amazing! Would definitely have gained some respect for Khan if he had done something like that.
This is what happens when TK actually gets interviewed by a journalist and not a “Mark”….
Ariel thought he was interviewing Tony Khan and he got Bill Belichick.
This interview was a complete joke. AH had every right to complain. TK should pay him for wasting his time