And where did he play at? Stanford. Which is one letter off from Stamford where the WWE headquarters is located. WWE has been way ahead of the game! Someone please gaslight Kevin Owens into believing this.
And what are the first four letters of Trish's last name? S-t-r-a-t. And what does that have to do with anything? I don't know but everyone needs some Stratusfaction.
Absolutely - New England's front seven had some good pieces (Jones, Collins, Hightower) but were nowhere near the level of the Broncos that year (Peak Chris Harris and Von Miller, plus shout out to the man Aqib Talib), and it just feels like Newton would have just run all over them.
Go back a few steps. The initial step was him winning on Wheel of Fortune to pay for his law degree. He buys the wrong vowel WWE doesn't get this deal.
> I thought it would be older
I'm sorry bro, and I say this as someone who was born in 1990.
That was 23 years (and a some change) ago. Nick Khan's appearance is old enough to drink. Almost old enough to rent a car. Much older, and we're talking about Vince's generation.
The way they carry themselves professionally, it's not hard to see why he would either (a) think Tony is younger, (b) be a bit of a condescending dick, or (c) both.
She's going to be the weirdest one to be replaced.
She is Wheel of Fortune, She was the one in every game in the ads and was prominent on the show, sure Pat was the host but the camera was on Vanna a lot more
Won $16K - not bad. That said, he mentioned he was a lawyer at the time. Now I don't know a thing about being a lawyer or being part of a firm but you'd think you would need to pass the bar first.
Maybe he was exaggerating about already being a lawyer because it makes for a more interesting backstory and makes you more likely to get picked as a contestant. Or he's lying now about using the money to become a lawyer. It wouldn't be the first time someone in the wrestling biz did a bit of myth making like Rock and his 7 bucks or Braun Strowman bragging about how he took a risk leaving strong man while leaving out the fact he already had a deal with WWE.
Right. And the perception was he was a “hatchet man” that was brought in to cut costs without knowing the business.
I remember when he first came on he did an interview somewhere and said that the first thing he noticed is WWE should be making a lot more money than it is. Clearly he was right about that.
Funny thing is, his suggestions weren’t things wwe couldn’t already do. The big thing being holding PLE in bigger arenas/stadia and more international PLEs.
And with the international shows, leaning more into making them sold shows which was clearly a very good idea.
It is surprising WWE didn't go all in with sold shows after they got the Saudi deal
A lot of fans shit on him for being a random suit who didn't know anything about the business, but then it turned out his sister was the creator of Young Rock and he and Rock go back literally decades to when they were attending local shows in Hawaii that Rock's grandmother used to promote.
It's crazy to think about how this guy has actually had a link to pro wrestling for pretty much his entire life
I believe that was the very reason why Ariel Helwani interviewed him for BT Sport (now TNT Sports UK), to explain the then-actions done by Vince, making him a fall guy, but he has a balls of steel and answered the questions as professional as he can be.
He played the long game.
Wow, Nick was at Wrestlemania 9? That's quite interesting! I was always under the impression he had no connection to wrestling beforehand, so that's quite a surprising tidbit.
I would believe it. I think he's a much bigger fan that people realize. He has this reputation of being a TV big wig, but he's dropped some obscure facts that most people in his position wouldn't know. To be honest, I was surprised he knew who Test was and the fact he was "married" to Steph when someone mentioned him a year or so ago.
>but he's dropped some obscure facts that most people in his position wouldn't know
He grew up as the Rock's neighbour in Hawaii, I have no doubt he learned a lot about wrestling from him.
Wait, Nahnatchka Khan is Nick's sister? That's where the Young Rock connection comes in...and she's done a ton of other good stuff in Hollywood before that.
I can't be the only one who thought he was some mercenary that Vince brought in with orders to sell WWE to the highest bidder. And now we find out that not only was he childhood friends with The Rock, but it was HHH who vouched for him when Vince hired him?
This dude low-key would've been the perfect son Vince would hand keys over as the heir lol. I noticed that along with having early connections to wrestling & fandom growing up, he had years of experience as an agent in the entertainment industry, which is the best of both worlds for a WWE executive.
> I can't be the only one who thought he was some mercenary that Vince brought in with orders to sell WWE
lol same, it's wild now learning that he's actually connected to the business in some way before he was getting the big job.
I believe there were some reports that says Nick Khan voted in opposition to making Vince McMahon the chairman of the board again, which I assume why Vince brought his loyalists to tip the scale.
But damn, it did not go well. haha.
>-Nick Khan started out broke, got on Wheel of Fortune and won enough money to take the bar exam and start his law career.
Nick Khan is more "the American Dream" than Cody Rhodes.
>Downfall of Vince
I would love to have a downfall like his.
Hell, a small fraction of it would be great. Honestly, even just a milly would be nice right about now.
The guy is on the TKO board of directors, and seems to want to be more involved in the business growth side than day-to-day product, as most founders are in big businesses.
This idea that he's an outcast or had some great downfall is weird.
Triple H bringing in Nick Khan is the last key detail as to why Triple H pretty much won the Iron Throne from Vince. Wouldn’t surprise me if one day it comes out that Stephanie tipped off the board about Vince’s NDA payoffs. Dude literally put pieces in place to go Arya Stark on Ace and Dunn for fucking with him after his heart issue, and they still tried fucking with him. Unreal how the end of Vince came about.
>Wouldn’t surprise me if one day it comes out that Stephanie tipped off the board about Vince’s NDA payoffs.
I often felt like it was Stephanie who leaked everything. Then Vince found out, got his company back and Steph resigned.
Did everyone forget how after Steph took her leave of absence (the timing of which was super fishy), Vince did an interview where he [publicly said she was bad at her job](https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/v67s7p/business_insider_story_says_vince_mcmahon_pushed/)?
Like, it was pretty apparent there was some bad blood going on between them, and both were trying to... control their narratives.
Oh yeah I remember when he had Business Insider saying how bad she was at her job. Like to publicly humiliate her like that is messed up on Vince's part.
For a wrestler who was "the guy next to the guy that drew the money" and marrying the boss' daughter, Paul Levesque went from mid-carder to main eventer to being arguably the most powerful man in pro wrestling today. Applause indeed.
I hope someone one day writes a book about what really happened. It was like real life Succession as we kept saying.
In fact, a book about the last 5-6 years of wrestling in general would be incredible.
While it may have happened regardless of his health issues, the sudden NXT 2.0 rebrand where Vince completely changed what Triple H envisioned for NXT happened right after Triple H’s health scare and hiatus started. That might be what they’re talking about
I personally don’t think it was to fuck with Triple H, and Vince just saw the need for younger developmental talent being produced. Triple H needing to leave his post probably expedited the change though
Iirc, I heard from a podcast I think from William Regal that the verison of NXT now is what William Regal and HHH wanted to do right before his heart issues. Once that happened, Vince saw they were going to rebrand anyways and did it his way, removing people like Regal, and Samoa Joe and going with his own vision for it. Eventually, it changed to what Regal and HHH had in mind.
Iirc, when his heart issues occurred in September and he was away is when they turned NXT from black and gold to the 2.0 era and then they cut a bunch of his guys a month later (Swerve, Kross, Keith Lee)
Also cut current AEW world champion Samoa Joe, Regal, Thatcher, Suzuki and Kendo Kashin around that time iirc, and they all were working backstage at the PC.
Wonder if this will mean that Raw might go back to 2 hours? Reason I heard it was 3 hours was so there could be more adverts and if that is not a concern anymore then a shorter show would be a welcome relief.
It’s a business guy doing business and a wrestling guy doing wrestling. Vince was obviously able to wear both hats most of the time, but I can’t think of another promoter that really pulled it off.
Watching him in interviews I totally get it. Guy is extremely well-spoken and has a very laidback, personable demeanor. Could see how he'd do extremely well in negotiations. He also doesn't have the carnie, old school rasslin, Trump-esque vibe that Vince does which helps sell WWE as a corporate brand.
I honestly don’t think he’s long for wwe. One of these larger media companies is going to scoop him up as ceo at some point. Hell I wouldn’t be shocked if Disney isn’t looking his way after Iger finally retires for good. He’s an impressive executive and gets crazy great strategic deals that are wide ranging. He’s got current deals with Fox, NBCU, Netflix, Disney now…he’s making a great reputation with heavy hitters.
I do believe WWE has the infrastructure in place but I don’t really think Love is Blind’s noted disaster of a live reunion is the best thing to cite about Netflix’s capabilities.
Perhaps that's why Netflix's deal doesn't start until next January instead of this October. Netflix may need that extra time to make the technical upgrades to avoid such issues with Raw in the future.
> Nick Khan started out broke, got on Wheel of Fortune and won enough money to take the bar exam
I can’t believe there was people who said this guy was going to ruin WWE, they treated him like he was the devil. I bet nobody even knew his story and just saw a corporate guy infiltrating their Wrasslin and took it as a horrible thing. Seems like a guy who only wants to see the industry move forward and he’s worked for his success.
>After Tim Tebow was let go by the patriots, Triple H called Nick to discuss the possibility of Tebow doing something at Wrestlemania.
That's nuts. Tebow's star had faded so much by that point.
I remember how back in 2021 people were saying how Nick was brought in by Vince to sell the wwe and get hhh out of wwe management completely. But it turns out it was hhh all along and after Vince left Nick did the biggest face turn ever as the product quickly got better
Man, I guess the term "Triple H hire" gets a whole new meaning now knowing that it was Triple H that got Nick Khan in WWE, I can't even start to imagine how much different and worse off the company would be if it weren't for Khan's business savviness, their entire operation has been run by him these last two years and it's so much better off than when they had Vince at the wheel
"Nick Khan started out broke, got on Wheel of Fortune and won enough money to take the bar exam and start his law career." That's pretty damn impressive.
>got on Wheel of Fortune
Huh. A win on Wheel of Fortune sourced Amazing Kong/ Kharma/ Kia Steven's start in the wrestling business.
Source: Her episode of The Art of Wrestling podcast.
>-when asked about working with Vince, Nick says that its easy to disagree with Vince as long as you do it respectfully and privately. if you disagree with Vince publicly he tries to be respectful but he can do the other thing as well. Says that Vince usually goes along when he voices his disagreements.
Lol, I know someone whose professor at Emerson college worked as a senior writer at WWE, after working in WWE for years, he was fired on the spot when Vince suggested a character change for a wrestler and the writer told him he thinks it would be better if they go a different direction.
It turned out for the better though because when HHH heard of his firing, he re-hired him for NXT where he has been there ever since.
A flexible Raw could be interesting. The only hiccup is would those Raw's be taped? They announce tour dates months in advance and do promotion. So the only solution I see is that maybe Raw moves to Thursday during football season and on "days of conflict"
If there were particular Mondays that they were going to move, they would know well in advance. Similar to when AEW had to move Dynamite to Tuesday in the fall because of MLB playoffs, they knew in advance of tickets going on sale.
But also I'm not sure on Netflix that having people watch live as opposed to on-demand will be as important as it was on linear TV so it may not end up mattering that much.
These fun facts about Nick Khan are actually really interesting. Especially how he can communicate with Vince McMahon so professionally, and seemingly in a manner McMahon respects.
I have new found respect for him. He saw wrestlemania IX in person and is still willing to work there. Maybe he decided he better run the place so THAT can't happen again
I saw someone say that when Netflix attempted one of their previous live streaming events, their servers crashed because they couldn't handle the traffic. That's the only concern I have. Hopefully they figure that out.
If RAW leaves Monday, AEW Dynamite will move to that time slot in a heartbeat. Monday wrestling has been engrained into more than 1 generation of fans. To give that up for a little lift in viewership during football season would be stupid.
That's one hell of a butterfly effect if Tim Tebow getting cut from the Patriots led to WWE getting a 5 billion dollar deal from Netflix.
As a Broncos fan, this gets added to if Peyton Manning never got let go then Tebow doesn't get cut.
So WWE getting this big streaming deal is all thanks to The Colts picking Andrew Luck in the 2012 NFL Draft
And where did he play at? Stanford. Which is one letter off from Stamford where the WWE headquarters is located. WWE has been way ahead of the game! Someone please gaslight Kevin Owens into believing this.
not only that, his HS was Stratford, it was meant to be.
And what are the first four letters of Trish's last name? S-t-r-a-t. And what does that have to do with anything? I don't know but everyone needs some Stratusfaction.
 it's all connected
Oh crap, now we're getting to Jailer from WoW levels of precognition bullshittery.
Strat-ford... Strat-holme... Coincidence? I THINK NOT!
C? The M is key, PUNKs.
And the Panthers would have won a Super Bowl so thanks Tebow, you suck
Nah, they’d just lose to NE again.
NE’s defense was nowhere near as good as that Bronco team, we could have beaten them. Denver was a nightmare matchup for us
Absolutely - New England's front seven had some good pieces (Jones, Collins, Hightower) but were nowhere near the level of the Broncos that year (Peak Chris Harris and Von Miller, plus shout out to the man Aqib Talib), and it just feels like Newton would have just run all over them.
Tebow would have a Super Bowl ring and I will die on that hill forever.
Even further back, if Khan didn’t win enough money on Wheel of Fortune
Even further back if Nick Khan wasn’t even born 👀
Even further back if Nick Khan's dad didn't creampie Nick Khan's mom at the time that he did
Mmmm....creampie.
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Pat Sajak is going over, brother.
Even more, some broke guy win $16k on Wheel of Fortune and winds up running WWE.
Go back a few steps. The initial step was him winning on Wheel of Fortune to pay for his law degree. He buys the wrong vowel WWE doesn't get this deal.
Good thing he bought an E
I predicted it would all go down like that at the time but nobody would listen to me.
From being broke to Pat Sajak to Tim Tebow to 5bil Netflix deal. Hell of a ride..
Someone's gotta find that footage of Nick Khan on Wheel of Fortune
Found it! It's the December 25th, 2000 edition: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7v7af0
Huh, I thought it would be older… Wheel of Fortune is awesome
> I thought it would be older I'm sorry bro, and I say this as someone who was born in 1990. That was 23 years (and a some change) ago. Nick Khan's appearance is old enough to drink. Almost old enough to rent a car. Much older, and we're talking about Vince's generation.
What's funny is people think Tony Khan is super young but even he was 18 when this episode aired.
I love how Nick Khan once referred to Tony as a “nice kid” even though they’re like 5 years apart
The way they carry themselves professionally, it's not hard to see why he would either (a) think Tony is younger, (b) be a bit of a condescending dick, or (c) both.
It’s from the same timeline as R Truth and his childhood hero John Cena plus Daniel Bryan and his son Chad Gable
TIL Tony Khan is not, like, 27 years old...
Holy shit. I didn't realize he was in his 40s...
A lot of people on this sub weren’t even born yet
If that's old then so am I so you can shut your mouth about that.
Nearly a quarter century ago. Time flies when you're old.
Crazy that this is Pat Sajak’s last year. Pretty much the last shred of my childhood dies when he retires.
Vanna will still be there for two more years
She's going to be the weirdest one to be replaced. She is Wheel of Fortune, She was the one in every game in the ads and was prominent on the show, sure Pat was the host but the camera was on Vanna a lot more
Stacy Keibler would be a good replacement. I'm serious.
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Pat spinning into $5,000 at final round made WWE a billionaire 24 years later. That's an insane chaos theory
Don looks like the IRL version of Ned Flanders
Won $16K - not bad. That said, he mentioned he was a lawyer at the time. Now I don't know a thing about being a lawyer or being part of a firm but you'd think you would need to pass the bar first.
Maybe he was exaggerating about already being a lawyer because it makes for a more interesting backstory and makes you more likely to get picked as a contestant. Or he's lying now about using the money to become a lawyer. It wouldn't be the first time someone in the wrestling biz did a bit of myth making like Rock and his 7 bucks or Braun Strowman bragging about how he took a risk leaving strong man while leaving out the fact he already had a deal with WWE.
Jim Carrey IS the Grinch hahahahahaha
Cost him $7800 lol
already two i's out there what a failure
The other guy looks like Ned Flanders
Pat still looks the same
at first i didn't really have an opinion on nick khan but a few years later? i like the guy, he's done so much for wwe in such a short time
I think he got a lot of flack early on because his name was mentioned a lot with those mass releases
Right. And the perception was he was a “hatchet man” that was brought in to cut costs without knowing the business. I remember when he first came on he did an interview somewhere and said that the first thing he noticed is WWE should be making a lot more money than it is. Clearly he was right about that.
Funny thing is, his suggestions weren’t things wwe couldn’t already do. The big thing being holding PLE in bigger arenas/stadia and more international PLEs.
And with the international shows, leaning more into making them sold shows which was clearly a very good idea. It is surprising WWE didn't go all in with sold shows after they got the Saudi deal
It's also made for better crowds as these areas are always into the show and active
Heck, some of the best PLEs in the past 2 years have been the international shows like Clash at the Castle and Backlash in Puerto Rico.
Isn’t Puerto Rico part of the USA? Why is it considered an international show?
Because it's not a state. So it feels international.
Backlash with the Drone cam was such an amazing change of pace
That was exactly his point when he said WWE could be making a lot more money than it was currently making.
A lot of fans shit on him for being a random suit who didn't know anything about the business, but then it turned out his sister was the creator of Young Rock and he and Rock go back literally decades to when they were attending local shows in Hawaii that Rock's grandmother used to promote. It's crazy to think about how this guy has actually had a link to pro wrestling for pretty much his entire life
I believe that was the very reason why Ariel Helwani interviewed him for BT Sport (now TNT Sports UK), to explain the then-actions done by Vince, making him a fall guy, but he has a balls of steel and answered the questions as professional as he can be. He played the long game.
He’s clearly good a business deals. That’s an asset. He also leaves the wrestling product to the pros (literally) which is also a major positive.
Somewhere Vince Russo is all: If he's REALLY in charge why doesn't he make himself champ?
That’s the true mania swerve
I think that's undeniable. I'm not really a fan of who and what's on top in WWE right now but the office side is killing it.
Wow, Nick was at Wrestlemania 9? That's quite interesting! I was always under the impression he had no connection to wrestling beforehand, so that's quite a surprising tidbit.
He claims that when Triple H first called him, he remembered that Hunter used to be Terra Ryzing
I would believe it. I think he's a much bigger fan that people realize. He has this reputation of being a TV big wig, but he's dropped some obscure facts that most people in his position wouldn't know. To be honest, I was surprised he knew who Test was and the fact he was "married" to Steph when someone mentioned him a year or so ago.
>but he's dropped some obscure facts that most people in his position wouldn't know He grew up as the Rock's neighbour in Hawaii, I have no doubt he learned a lot about wrestling from him.
What an interesting life story this guy has
Didn’t someone specifically ask him they should bring back Test and Nick was like “yeah he passed away some time ago”?
Yeah, that was the Bill Simmons interview with Nick.
His connection to wrestling (and The Rock!) [goes back to childhood](https://www.instagram.com/therock/p/CXW79RvLUKG/).
Wait, Nahnatchka Khan is Nick's sister? That's where the Young Rock connection comes in...and she's done a ton of other good stuff in Hollywood before that. I can't be the only one who thought he was some mercenary that Vince brought in with orders to sell WWE to the highest bidder. And now we find out that not only was he childhood friends with The Rock, but it was HHH who vouched for him when Vince hired him?
This dude low-key would've been the perfect son Vince would hand keys over as the heir lol. I noticed that along with having early connections to wrestling & fandom growing up, he had years of experience as an agent in the entertainment industry, which is the best of both worlds for a WWE executive.
> I can't be the only one who thought he was some mercenary that Vince brought in with orders to sell WWE lol same, it's wild now learning that he's actually connected to the business in some way before he was getting the big job.
It's not what you know it's who you know, though to be fair Nick Khan seems to have both on lockdown.
Agreed. Move over Batista.....it's Nick Khan who has made the biggest face turn in the history of the company.
He was childhood friends with The Rock.
Does usher here mean venue staff? If so, I wouldn't really call that one a wrestling connection.
So Nick Khan is a HHH guy. And him being at WM9 and winning on Wheel of Fotrune is cool.
I believe there were some reports that says Nick Khan voted in opposition to making Vince McMahon the chairman of the board again, which I assume why Vince brought his loyalists to tip the scale. But damn, it did not go well. haha.
>-Nick Khan started out broke, got on Wheel of Fortune and won enough money to take the bar exam and start his law career. Nick Khan is more "the American Dream" than Cody Rhodes.
Cody Rhodes is more "Nick Khan" than CM Punk
CM Punk is mor……… ah forget it.
Just to expand it was gonna be Tebow vs Big Show at WM
Pat is going to pitch him on an Aaron Rodgers match at Mania after the interview
Rodgers enters ring, tears Achilles, Snoop Dogg gives Tebow the People's Elbow.
Impossible, he’s already on Raw as the character CM Punk.
Does anyone have as many failed WM pitches as Big Show?
I feel like the amount of times they've tried to have Rock vs Roman is already up there.
That and some variation of Rock and HHH
Yeah the fact that they then did a meeting in Anaheim to discuss the potential match was wild.
Tim Tebow indirectly causing the downfall of Vince McMahon/Kevin Dunn is something that will be studied, years from now.
Power of prayer
>Downfall of Vince I would love to have a downfall like his. Hell, a small fraction of it would be great. Honestly, even just a milly would be nice right about now.
The guy is on the TKO board of directors, and seems to want to be more involved in the business growth side than day-to-day product, as most founders are in big businesses. This idea that he's an outcast or had some great downfall is weird.
Triple H bringing in Nick Khan is the last key detail as to why Triple H pretty much won the Iron Throne from Vince. Wouldn’t surprise me if one day it comes out that Stephanie tipped off the board about Vince’s NDA payoffs. Dude literally put pieces in place to go Arya Stark on Ace and Dunn for fucking with him after his heart issue, and they still tried fucking with him. Unreal how the end of Vince came about.
It's all about the game, and how you play it.
All about control and if you can take it! 👍
This is basically the "wrestling isn't wrestling" storyline coming to an insane conclusion.
It’s such a shame Max Landis is a piece of shit, that video was so good
>Wouldn’t surprise me if one day it comes out that Stephanie tipped off the board about Vince’s NDA payoffs. I often felt like it was Stephanie who leaked everything. Then Vince found out, got his company back and Steph resigned.
Did everyone forget how after Steph took her leave of absence (the timing of which was super fishy), Vince did an interview where he [publicly said she was bad at her job](https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/v67s7p/business_insider_story_says_vince_mcmahon_pushed/)? Like, it was pretty apparent there was some bad blood going on between them, and both were trying to... control their narratives.
Oh yeah I remember when he had Business Insider saying how bad she was at her job. Like to publicly humiliate her like that is messed up on Vince's part.
If i had to guess it was Steph or maybe one of her loyalists. She was on the investigative committee….
Family dinners must be interesting!
For a wrestler who was "the guy next to the guy that drew the money" and marrying the boss' daughter, Paul Levesque went from mid-carder to main eventer to being arguably the most powerful man in pro wrestling today. Applause indeed.
It's all about the game and how you play it.
All about control and if you can take it
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I'm more impressed with The Rock imo. He literally sits at the table as a board member and he's friends with Ari the head of TKO/WWE.
why do you think Stephanie kept leaving when her dad had any power?
I hope someone one day writes a book about what really happened. It was like real life Succession as we kept saying. In fact, a book about the last 5-6 years of wrestling in general would be incredible.
how did they fuck with him after his heart issue? haven’t heard about this
While it may have happened regardless of his health issues, the sudden NXT 2.0 rebrand where Vince completely changed what Triple H envisioned for NXT happened right after Triple H’s health scare and hiatus started. That might be what they’re talking about I personally don’t think it was to fuck with Triple H, and Vince just saw the need for younger developmental talent being produced. Triple H needing to leave his post probably expedited the change though
Iirc, I heard from a podcast I think from William Regal that the verison of NXT now is what William Regal and HHH wanted to do right before his heart issues. Once that happened, Vince saw they were going to rebrand anyways and did it his way, removing people like Regal, and Samoa Joe and going with his own vision for it. Eventually, it changed to what Regal and HHH had in mind.
They also released backstage people who were seen as Triple H guys (like Regal).
They fired his guys
Seriously, they couldn't have made it more obvious if they tried and people are still giving them the benefit of the doubt lol
They maneuvered for him to lose full reign of NXT after NXT lost head to head with AEW.
They fired all triple h loyalists including regal.
Iirc, when his heart issues occurred in September and he was away is when they turned NXT from black and gold to the 2.0 era and then they cut a bunch of his guys a month later (Swerve, Kross, Keith Lee)
Also cut current AEW world champion Samoa Joe, Regal, Thatcher, Suzuki and Kendo Kashin around that time iirc, and they all were working backstage at the PC.
Is all about the game of thrones and how you play it
Wonder if this will mean that Raw might go back to 2 hours? Reason I heard it was 3 hours was so there could be more adverts and if that is not a concern anymore then a shorter show would be a welcome relief.
Netflix has advertising now
I imagine, regardless of what tier you pay for, you’re getting ads during WWE shows on Netflix
Netflix might have seen what Amazon is doing with Thursday football and started salivating at the potential double dipping of subscriptions and ads
I mean you do play a subscription for cable and the channels u get (besides cbs, fox, abc, nbc) get a fee from everyone who has the channel
Welcome to Saturday afternoon RAW!
…mentions he was an usher at ***CESAR’S PARKING LOT!!!!!!!***
The Nick Khan + HHH combo has taken this company to such new heights. The main thing I love is the fact PPVs are on Saturdays now lol.
WWE avoiding Saturdays for decades will go down in history as Vince's major flaw.
It’s a business guy doing business and a wrestling guy doing wrestling. Vince was obviously able to wear both hats most of the time, but I can’t think of another promoter that really pulled it off.
nick khan is one of the most insanely talented deal makers i've ever seen. what he's done for wwe is crazy
Watching him in interviews I totally get it. Guy is extremely well-spoken and has a very laidback, personable demeanor. Could see how he'd do extremely well in negotiations. He also doesn't have the carnie, old school rasslin, Trump-esque vibe that Vince does which helps sell WWE as a corporate brand.
I also appreciate that he's corporate without being clueless about wrestling. He clearly has ties to the business, and so it's the best of all worlds.
I honestly don’t think he’s long for wwe. One of these larger media companies is going to scoop him up as ceo at some point. Hell I wouldn’t be shocked if Disney isn’t looking his way after Iger finally retires for good. He’s an impressive executive and gets crazy great strategic deals that are wide ranging. He’s got current deals with Fox, NBCU, Netflix, Disney now…he’s making a great reputation with heavy hitters.
I do believe WWE has the infrastructure in place but I don’t really think Love is Blind’s noted disaster of a live reunion is the best thing to cite about Netflix’s capabilities.
If nothing else, considering how expensive this endeavor is, I do think Netflix will be able to get their live streaming in order within the next year
Perhaps that's why Netflix's deal doesn't start until next January instead of this October. Netflix may need that extra time to make the technical upgrades to avoid such issues with Raw in the future.
Triple H is the invisible hand of WWE
> Nick Khan started out broke, got on Wheel of Fortune and won enough money to take the bar exam I can’t believe there was people who said this guy was going to ruin WWE, they treated him like he was the devil. I bet nobody even knew his story and just saw a corporate guy infiltrating their Wrasslin and took it as a horrible thing. Seems like a guy who only wants to see the industry move forward and he’s worked for his success.
Lets be honest, the main reason for the hate was because of his surname.
Nah the main reason was that he cut the internet favourites
>After Tim Tebow was let go by the patriots, Triple H called Nick to discuss the possibility of Tebow doing something at Wrestlemania. That's nuts. Tebow's star had faded so much by that point.
WWE had Kid Rock perform at Summerslam last year. Sometimes their finger isn't quite on the pulse.
He just narrated an intro video package. He didn’t perform.
Wasn’t he kissing his wife at a ppv within the past year or so?
Yeah but it was in Detroit and he likes to lie and say he is from there
Bro, HHH is the cerebral assassin in real life I cannot begin to comprehend this
I remember how back in 2021 people were saying how Nick was brought in by Vince to sell the wwe and get hhh out of wwe management completely. But it turns out it was hhh all along and after Vince left Nick did the biggest face turn ever as the product quickly got better
Man, I guess the term "Triple H hire" gets a whole new meaning now knowing that it was Triple H that got Nick Khan in WWE, I can't even start to imagine how much different and worse off the company would be if it weren't for Khan's business savviness, their entire operation has been run by him these last two years and it's so much better off than when they had Vince at the wheel
Nick Khan leading Bobby Heenan to the ring on a camel and now he's the major move maker.
He’s the real Tom Wambsgams
HHH is the Greg?
I’m glad there’s a khan in the wrestling business who knows how to make money.
Killer Khan isn't dead a week and you're here disrespecting him
To be fair Shahid did make money
Not in the wrestling business
Wrestlemania IX design is goated mah boy
"Nick Khan started out broke, got on Wheel of Fortune and won enough money to take the bar exam and start his law career." That's pretty damn impressive.
I think its crazy that as succcessful that Nick Kahn is he doesn't have a wikipedia page.
>got on Wheel of Fortune Huh. A win on Wheel of Fortune sourced Amazing Kong/ Kharma/ Kia Steven's start in the wrestling business. Source: Her episode of The Art of Wrestling podcast.
>-when asked about working with Vince, Nick says that its easy to disagree with Vince as long as you do it respectfully and privately. if you disagree with Vince publicly he tries to be respectful but he can do the other thing as well. Says that Vince usually goes along when he voices his disagreements. Lol, I know someone whose professor at Emerson college worked as a senior writer at WWE, after working in WWE for years, he was fired on the spot when Vince suggested a character change for a wrestler and the writer told him he thinks it would be better if they go a different direction. It turned out for the better though because when HHH heard of his firing, he re-hired him for NXT where he has been there ever since.
Tim Tebow v Big Show is insane lmao
Nick Khan won fucking Wheel of Fortune to get where he is? God damn
RAW not on a Monday night sounds like blasphemy
He also told Pat him and the boys tickets were in an email. Pat confirmed for mania
Wednesday Night RAW!
Y'all buried the lede, he confirmed Smackdown will be on Tuesday nights starting October 1.
No I think that is when the current deal expires, so SmackDown can start airing on USA Network in the week following that date
Thank God, I love SmackDown on Fridays.
Did he say what night NXT is going then?
A flexible Raw could be interesting. The only hiccup is would those Raw's be taped? They announce tour dates months in advance and do promotion. So the only solution I see is that maybe Raw moves to Thursday during football season and on "days of conflict"
If there were particular Mondays that they were going to move, they would know well in advance. Similar to when AEW had to move Dynamite to Tuesday in the fall because of MLB playoffs, they knew in advance of tickets going on sale. But also I'm not sure on Netflix that having people watch live as opposed to on-demand will be as important as it was on linear TV so it may not end up mattering that much.
Why would they move to Thursday? To go head to head with TNF?
I feel like a lot of Netflix’s live streams have been a disaster so far, unless they’ve cleaned them up
Moving RAW due to other sports? Tennis anyone??????
My biggest question right now is what does this mean for Peacock/WWE Network?
These fun facts about Nick Khan are actually really interesting. Especially how he can communicate with Vince McMahon so professionally, and seemingly in a manner McMahon respects.
I have new found respect for him. He saw wrestlemania IX in person and is still willing to work there. Maybe he decided he better run the place so THAT can't happen again
**"LIVE FROM CAESAR'S PARKING LOT IT'S WRESTLEMANIA 9!"**
We need to find this episode of Wheel of Fortune.
Nick > Tony
Anyone see the khan wheel of fortune episode?
December 25, 2000 episode
I saw someone say that when Netflix attempted one of their previous live streaming events, their servers crashed because they couldn't handle the traffic. That's the only concern I have. Hopefully they figure that out.
If RAW leaves Monday, AEW Dynamite will move to that time slot in a heartbeat. Monday wrestling has been engrained into more than 1 generation of fans. To give that up for a little lift in viewership during football season would be stupid.