Tony Khan explains when ‘business became personal’ between him and WWE

Over the course of a few social media posts on Friday, Tony Khan explained when “business became personal” between him and WWE.

Khan celebrated the one-year anniversary of the Mayo Clinic saving his mother’s life after she suffered a stroke. Khan noted that it was during this ordeal that things became personal between him and WWE. Khan says that “many” AEW wrestlers came to him at the time and alleged that WWE was trying to get them to break their AEW contracts.

Khan wrote:

This weekend marks 1 year since @MayoClinic saved my mom’s life. During her ordeal many AEW talent came to me alleging WWE tampering, inducing them to break their contracts. I’ll never forget these phone calls at her side in the hospital; it’s when business became personal for me.

This is nothing new, I mentioned it last year after she came home. It’s relevant today because she checked in for surgery 1 year ago today. As I’ve mentioned several times since, @MayoClinic are heroes and thanks to them, her recovery from a very grim outlook has been a miracle.

Not that I should be surprised, but the same WWE avatar accounts that spam me every day, no matter what I say or what it’s about, now turning their wrath to Mom recovering from a near death experience, is why I straight hate these people to the bottom of my heart with all my soul

It was also during this period in 2022 that William Regal requested that AEW not renew his contract. Regal made his return to WWE at the beginning of this year after Khan granted his request.

AEW sent a legal letter to WWE in summer 2022 regarding alleged contract tampering.

AEW and WWE were in competition as Dynamite and NXT aired head-to-head this Tuesday night. The Dynamite episode was moved to Tuesday due to MLB playoff coverage on TBS. NXT had a loaded-up lineup with appearances by John Cena, Paul Heyman, Cody Rhodes, Asuka, and The Undertaker. Dynamite was a Title Tuesday edition of the show that also featured the AEW in-ring debut of Adam Copeland.

NXT averaged 921,000 viewers on Tuesday night and drew a 0.30 rating in the 18-49 demo. Dynamite averaged 609,000 viewers and drew a 0.26 demo rating.

Earlier this week, Khan took shots at Vince McMahon, Paul “Triple H” Levesque, and Shawn Michaels on social media. He also sent out a tweet calling out NXT for failing to average one million viewers.