Tony Khan ‘not moved’ by The Boys statement on ROH release

Tony Khan is “not moved” by a statement issued by The Boys in regard to their ROH release. 

Khan spoke at the post-ROH Supercard of Honor media scrum early Saturday and was asked specifically about The Boys (Brandon and Brent Tate) publicly commenting on their release. 

The Tates cited a miscommunication with the AEW/ROH regarding their travel as the reason they missed a show, while Khan told the media on Thursday that he made the “tough call” to release them for missing work on multiple occasions. 

Khan is standing by his Thursday comments: 

I have not seen their exact statement. After the show [Supercard] I heard a little bit of this as I was coming back. I stand by what I said, and also I’ve only owned ROH for two years. 

There’s a long history of ROH. It was my call to bring them back. I liked their presentation with Dalton [Castle] and I like them both personally. I’ve had a lot of good experiences with them, and I would be open to working with them again in the future.

But their have been times when they came and have done great things for us. We did the House Rules tour… in the south and I loved having them. And they’ve been to a lot of the Saturdays, but there have been some times from my era of ROH, and I’ve been told from the company I inherited, other times in the past, and I’m just going off my experiences.

As for that, I did talk about that and confirm. I think there’s two sides to that story, but I appreciate you asking about it.

I know yesterday they said ‘stay tuned,’ so I stayed tuned, and then I heard, and I am not moved.

But thank you.

Khan also spoke in more general terms regarding the multiple cuts AEW/ROH made this week, noting that he has spent more money than he had planned to this year on free agents and production, and cited that as one reason for the releases, then circled back to The Boys: 

And like I said, even with The Boys, I disagree with the point on travel and that in the history of ROH and working with us that there hadn’t been a couple times where they didn’t make it and made me change stuff, but on the other hand I really like both of them.

And whether we agree or not about that point of contention, I think it’s regardless, I think they were great. They were a great part of Dalton’s act. I like both the Tates.

I like everybody we released in this last batch recently and I’m wishing nothing but the best for any of them.

The full scrum is embedded below.