Below are a couple of top AEW & WWF news stories of the day, featuring Tony Khan and The Undertaker.
• Unlike WWE, AEW does not hold production meetings before TV and PPVs, leading to frustration within the company.
The Wrestling Observer highlighted this issue while discussing a recent AEW Dynamite segment with Thunder Rosa, noting that such meetings help prevent match duplication and address creative gaps.
“The bigger story here than this was just such a f**king disaster is not a week goes by, not one week goes by where I don’t hear from somebody in AEW saying, ‘Why the f**k don’t we have production meetings? We need production meetings. Things happen on every show where if we had a production meeting, they wouldn’t happen.’
But Tony (Khan) refuses to do production meetings, and here we are. This is another one. What in the f**k happened here? Nobody knows. I didn’t get a single good explanation for it. It was just everybody was on a different page, and you made the babyface look like an absolute idiot, and away we go.”
Below is the spot that is being talked about here:
Thunder Rosa needs to get the hell out of AEW, man… I'm not even saying for her to go to WWE, this woman can literally thrive anywhere else but here.
If this wasn't the case of a forgotten spot, which I hope it was, they just made her look like a chump. pic.twitter.com/023Bz0JUn3
— Richie Vargas (@RichieRich93_) February 21, 2025
• On his Six Feet Under podcast, The Undertaker revealed the advice “Rowdy” Roddy Piper gave him in the early 1990s:
“Piper was a wild card. I remember I was just getting hot, like The Undertaker thing was really starting to take off. And he was letting me know, he’s like, ‘You need to make your play right now. You’re the hottest thing in the company right now. You need to hold Vince (McMahon) up for money.’
And I’m thinking to myself, ‘Dude, I’m still in debt from getting into this business. I’m just happy I’ve got a paycheck coming in at this point.’”
Undertaker said he didn’t think he was in a position at that time to demand anything from Vince McMahon, and said a “white substance” might’ve affected Piper’s thinking at the time. Taker then praised Piper as an underrated talent.
