Below are a couple of top AEW & WWE news stories of the day, featuring Tony Khan and Chris Jericho.
• Tony Khan continues to accuse WWE of tampering with AEW stars who are still under contract, rather than waiting for their deals to expire.
Before the 2022 All Out PPV, Khan addressed this issue in a talent meeting, noting that AEW’s Chief Legal Officer, Megha Parekh, had sent a warning email to WWE’s Stephanie McMahon and Nick Khan.
Khan later explained on X that WWE’s actions became personal for him, as they occurred while his mother was seriously ill. He mentioned that some AEW talent informed him about WWE contacting them about returning.
Recently, on The Dan LeBatard Show, Khan stated that he believes this contract tampering hasn’t stopped:
“I don’t think that it has. It’s still happening. I will reserve all rights when it comes to that, but I don’t think that it’s stopped. I’ll leave it at that.”
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• On his podcast, Chris Jericho talked about the importance of introducing new talent on TV and how AEW doesn’t do enough of it.
Here’s what Jericho said:
“I thought it was very important to introduce myself in case somebody didn’t know me. That’s something we don’t do a lot of in AEW at times. When we just bring somebody in. ‘Oh my gosh, it’s Zack Sabre Jr. Ah!’ ‘Who?’
If you go back and watch my very first promo on October 2, 2019, which was the very first Dynamite, I said, ‘My name is Chris Jericho.’ Just in case there is somebody who might not know me.
In 1999, which was 20 years earlier, just in case people didn’t know me, of course a lot of people did know me because there is tribalism, ‘We watch WCW. We watch WWE.’ I let people know who I was and what I was there to do.”
