Rene is probably sitting there thinking to himself “holy fuck, I gotta give Tony a call”. Lmao!!! 😂

@user-rx2hw8up2j

2 ай бұрын

The French tickler is worth atleast a million

"Knowing history is always inferior to understanding history"

Keep in mind that this company is 5 years old and still hasn't made a single dime of profit yet hands out contracts worth millions

Your forgetting the cost of Darby Allin and his medical bills.

@polsdofer

2 ай бұрын

And the drug bill

@juanheredia9297

2 ай бұрын

Not sure where's the logic when last Wednesday was his first legitimate injury. After everything he's done he would still be active. Nice try though 👍

@kazman_6899

2 ай бұрын

850k per year fixes all that

@SiIverMonkey

2 ай бұрын

@juanheredia9297 Tony Khan also pays all njuries Darby Allins doing his skateboard stunts. No wonder GIGI Dolin divorced him.

@CornBreadtm1

2 ай бұрын

@@polsdofer Darby is straight edge, so translate that into bags of ice.

Tony khan is basicly inflating the wrestling world by himself

@Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa669

2 ай бұрын

They're already inflated. Rich people problems lol

@kazman_6899

2 ай бұрын

Nah, he pays what he needs to pay

Tony on that WCW Speed Run!

@WaldoBagelTopper

2 ай бұрын

LMAO

@RuanAntunes7

2 ай бұрын

Brilliant comment. Well done 😂

@LASombraUS

2 ай бұрын

I said the same thing when the rumor of mone's contract and holy ahit the AEW fanboys wrote this " @Springfeeeel 4 days ago (AEW is nothing like WCW. Totally different styles and presentation. Work rate alone is like night and day. WCW had like a million run-ins and DQ finishes...is that AEW?... No, it's not.)"

The eyes…. they never lie Chico

“Can’t hire every person you like” If only Tony took his own advice from the very beginning!! 🤣🤣🤣

Rene and James should review the entire AEW/RoH roster from the website.

There are dozens of healthy people on their roster that haven't had a match this year so far. This is not a business. It's a charity. Any ideas of ever making a profit are long gone. If you went to wrestling school and Tony likes you: you have a job for life. Don't matter if they can't get over or are past their prime, out of shape etc.

@toms986

2 ай бұрын

I guess he changed his mind. He is lucky that his dad is a very nice man, which is rare for a billionaire.

Easy come, easy go, especially when it's pop's money

@neilbiggs1353

2 ай бұрын

Tony is just cosplaying the Brewster's Millions existence...

@shanestephens4728

2 ай бұрын

Old Money is always spent by New Idiots

@N3gativeR3FLUX

2 ай бұрын

Shahid Khan is worth over $12 billion USD. Owns a lucrative auto parts business and the Jaguars. He isn't running out of money any time soon.

@JofoInTheRing

2 ай бұрын

EXACTLY

It's great listening to two level headed guys, just talking and making sense. There's so much BS out there about AEW it's good to hear some common sense!

@JofoInTheRing

2 ай бұрын

I AGREE

You both nailed this perfectly! We attended All In & everyone in our section laughed when they announced the attendance as it was clear from where we were sitting it was no where near the number they claimed! We want them to do well but there's no signs of that happening

@RANDYSAVAGE1412

2 ай бұрын

You realize they verify the #s right it was 72,000 in attendance

@buzzmccallister9464

2 ай бұрын

​@@RANDYSAVAGE1412 😂😂😂

@RANDYSAVAGE1412

2 ай бұрын

​@@buzzmccallister9464In response to a public records request about the attendance for AEW All In on August 27, the Freedom of Information office for the Brent Civic Centre responded today: “The actual numbers registered entering [Wembley] Stadium through the turnstiles was 72,265 - this is reflective of what attended on the night and not the total number of tickets sold or no-shows etc.” Can't post links to KZread apparently. Like I said they verify all of this from wrestling events to concerts

@ccmcgaming327

2 ай бұрын

​@@RANDYSAVAGE1412yea but the problem was Tony tried to say it was like 81000 cause his goal was to beat summerslam 93 because he's a loser mark

@ishmael802

2 ай бұрын

Actually Jim Ross, WrestleTix and Wrestlenomic confirmed it was 81,000 tickets sold. Also according to multiple sources alot of people didn’t use the turnstiles. Not saying you’re wrong. But clearly you don’t know.

Kahns have so much money coming in from outside sources that AEW won't go out of business anytime soon. Doesn't mean it will draw but it won't go like WCW unless he just loses interest.

@JohnKobaRuddy

2 ай бұрын

Or if TV execs say no to him and to his company being on their channels.

@loboneiner1034

2 ай бұрын

@@JohnKobaRuddy they probably won't since cable tv is in massive decline and they're desperate for anything now. Plus he probably pays them to be on the network lol

@davidgalka7126

2 ай бұрын

​@loboneiner1034 some cable channel will give him a deal but for barley anything. Tbs will probley after them minimum money and tony will take because nobody else is going to give him anything.

@user-dt6hb7kb6u

2 ай бұрын

WCW was put out by WWE. If AEW has no competition, they will be just fine.

@edwardcannon3470

2 ай бұрын

It stop by Turner.​@user-dt6hb7kb6u

He was a different person back then for real what the hell happened

@brendonbosch1376

2 ай бұрын

The Bucks happened

@AlMoSiCe210

2 ай бұрын

Cocaine is one hell of a drug. 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

@gator9339

2 ай бұрын

Tony Khan B.C. The B.C. stands for "Before Coke"

@RoastedMarshmelon

2 ай бұрын

The physical difference is obvious. Really looks like coke.

My favorite channel on KZread. 😃🤙🏼

"Before the Cocaine" And "Before getting into wrestling business" Basically mean the same thing here. Probably doing mountains of it with Flair right now.

@JofoInTheRing

2 ай бұрын

LOLOLOL

The biggest obstacle to the success of AEW is Tony Khan. He’s living in another reality and by that, I mean a coked up delusional world of denial. Everything TK says is ironic and that clip aged about as well as all the other dumb shit he’s said over the years. The crazy part is he has veterans who could run it better than him but they’re content to collect their checks and not rock the boat. Three names that immediately come to mind are Jake Roberts, Jeff Jarrett, and Jim Ross. They have many decades of experience between them and Jarrett ran TNA although he wasn’t good at the financial side of things. If he had Jarrett running the day to day with Jake Roberts and Jim Ross running talent relations, things would change for the better. But TK has surrounded himself with parasites like Jericho and “The Elite” who only care about themselves. Honestly, if AEW made it another 2 years without imploding, I’d be shocked.

The fact that WWE only has 39 more wrestlers then AEW is nuts.(via theSmackdownHotel)

@seanmcintyre5936

2 ай бұрын

Nevermind add ROH they got way more then that

@hector4470

2 ай бұрын

Yeah AEW has way too many wrestlers lol.

@greenbluntern1168

2 ай бұрын

And most of them are making peanuts compared to AEWs wrestlers. The first AEW big lay off will be worst than everything we saw from WWE.

@seanmcintyre5936

2 ай бұрын

@@greenbluntern1168 yeah that’s an interesting point. Gonna be wild witnessing in actual time unlike the end of the Monday Night Wars (wasn’t born yet). Those mass releases are always brutal

Tony can turn AEW around overnight. He just needs to get out of his own way and hire people who've known the business for decades.

@redrag0n_

2 ай бұрын

Like Michael "Good Lookin" Hayes

@chip.chippa6416

2 ай бұрын

Know the business but are willing to teach it too. Waltman said it before about Hayes. "Its one thing to tell Talent to do shit your not willing to do yourself. But he'd never explain why" Raven had some good thoughts on high spots and poor trainjng. The issues he was warning about are coming to fruitition now it seems. Get lads in who care about this craft more than keepshit political.

@ThunderJuice

2 ай бұрын

@@chip.chippa6416 Raven is exactly who I have in mind. Kevin Sullivan too.

@ishmael802

2 ай бұрын

Don’t be stupid. That would require Tony Khan to stop living his passion project.

@Rottenfresh7

2 ай бұрын

I agree that AEW's issues are not hard to solve,it's just him

You also have to keep in mind a good number of those are on pay per appearance. Not saying there’s not a lot money being paid, there is. But the low card guys aren’t getting much on their deals

One of the best podcasts around guys, Keep up the good work. On a side note I pushed Rene on my E-Fed and he even had Trust-Antisocial as his entrance theme, it ruled.

He’s going out with a bang I mean bankruptcy

@andrew8168

2 ай бұрын

Shad is worth $12B. AEW may go bankrupt but Tony will be just fine. Its like you losing $400 at the casino.

@TheCaptainSlappy

2 ай бұрын

@@andrew8168Don't ever try to teach marks and fish how business works. They have little to no concept of what a corporation is, or how it works, much less how the laws work for them. AEW is a tax write off. It literally costs nobody anything to run it or employ the people there. It is a way of making money on money, regardless.

@phychmasher

2 ай бұрын

@@andrew8168 AEW is valued at $2B, so that's a pretty sick burn to insinuate that OP's complete assets are worth only $2,400! 🤣

nice to see a fellow arizona boy (Julian) get mentioned in The Cafe

The ultimate money mark

Honestly, AEW only needs about 50-70 talents and that would be more than enough if they would focus on STORY, PRESENTATION,and GOOD PROMOS.

You can sell out a venue, but that doesn't pay the bills. TV deals and merch revenue make the most money, and Tony hasn't proven the ability to do either. Even if he gets $200mill for 5 yrs on CW, that doesn't outpace the money they spend on travel, licensing, and contracts. Plus, Tony has 4 shows each week minimum with Dynamite, Collision, Thunder (I'm probably wrong on the name, but I know they run 3 shows) and ROH.

@linewalker

2 ай бұрын

WWE, WCW and TNA apparel designs are cooler than AEW's.

@jweezy15able

2 ай бұрын

@linewalker the worst part is they have to potential. It's like watching a doughnut shop throw out all their doughnuts because they didn't sell them.

@linewalker

2 ай бұрын

Agreed, Dynamite is turning it around. But last week, World Title starts the show and no build Women's match is mainevent wtf?

@Bls-of1ld

2 ай бұрын

Aew doesn't sell out building lol

@ishmael802

2 ай бұрын

TNT Sports pays NHL $205 million a year for ratings that pull less that 450K viewers. Lets see if AEW can pull a half a billion dollar TV contract. If AEW bet big they’re on the right track. Other than that. They need to stop honoring contracts with these carny wrestlers. Time to cut expenses…big time!

I love Toni Storm and Gearl Hebrner is a great Referee, but nevertheless AEW feels like WCW greed era 2001.

Holy shit! How ironic is that.

There should be 20 people in each division. 20 tag guys, 30 ish female talents, 20 legit main eventers, 20 midcard to lower card, and 20 developmental/new hires. If the total headcount was 250, it wouldn't be a problem from ring crew to announcers to tech crew to front office, but 250 talents is crazy. If he can pay these guys, god bless him. But if there's like 20 million in loses that you can point to talent as the reason, they gotta start cutting people or not renewing contracts (which i think they will likely start doing).

@tylerblair318

2 ай бұрын

Also worth noting that if they get a 3 year deal worth 300 million he's only out 35 mill in total, which is kinda crazy with how much they spend. The problem is gonna be if the talent cost goes up and they can't secure a deal in the next 3 years after this next one. They'll be fine for 5 years but you have got to play the long game.

@hakumeng316

2 ай бұрын

20 main event guys? Good luck with that

2k of them BB tickets were comps

Tony owns Fulham FC and part of the Jacksonville Jaguars with his dad. So there's no real pressure on him to make money in AEW. I'm guessing his dad helps with the funding. If Shad Khan ever decides to stop helping cause it's losing money, sayonara AEW.

Bischoff should have an field day on this topic😂😂

1998 WCW had 109 talent including announcers and authority types.

He might as well hire Rene. At least he's an actual Pro Wrestler that these "wrestlers" can learn from.

DROPPING KNOWLEDGE

1:56 108 in the year 2000.

Actually Mercedes is getting about 10 mill in her contract with aew, she's the highest paid wrestler.

TK is speed running WCW and TNA

The WCW roster had 67 people on it in 2001 when they went out of business, and the most they ever had was 114 in 1999. AEW has 198 and growing. Hypocrisy at its finest.

@cafederene

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for giving us the numbers bud, we'll bring it up Friday

@CombatTalkRadio

2 ай бұрын

AND...when WCW was about to go out of business they were losing nearly $100 million every year (Honky Tonk Man). So Tony Khan has already surpassed that. Billionaire Ted has nothing on Billionaire Tony. Prime Shawn Michaels would have a field day on this.

WCW's biggest roster of wrestlers was in 1999 with 114.

Tony looked so normal before AEW 😂

@AlMoSiCe210

2 ай бұрын

Cocaine is one hell of a drug. 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

Tony Khan doing an Eric Bischoff. But, making indie goofballs earned 3x what they supposed to earn without proper knowledge from proper wrestling school. Is next level drunken sailor. 😂

Renés arrogant dance of La Resistance was the best!!!

@axelkristoff

2 ай бұрын

They were awesome

That's hilarious. Tony Khan looks normal back then. What happened to him?

Look what happened to Jerome " New Jack" Young( RIP) Darby Allen stunt could have killed him!!!!

Tony's Dads company is evaluated as being worth 60-80 billion. AEW is Tony's passion project. Money is irrelevant to him.

@phychmasher

2 ай бұрын

...according to who? People just say things and feel like they are true.

@Bls-of1ld

2 ай бұрын

Lol no way

@N3gativeR3FLUX

2 ай бұрын

Shahid Khan's net worth is over $12 billion USD. He owns a lucrative auto parts company and the Jaguars. He isn't running out of money any time soon.

Yeah, you don't pay them $100,000... you pay them five fecking million!

Dang 😲

2:49 James's accent made it sound like Moxley works for free. 😅

TK needs to let 20% of the roster go, for starters. He needs to go 50% and that's even some of the bigger names.

Sasha Banks literally stopping by for that bag on her way back to WWE.

@detmorales9151

2 ай бұрын

She's not going after her 5-7 yr Aew contract is up plus Bayle leaving WWE 🤔 so there's no reason for Mone to return to WWE for what

Wow...

Yeah, TK isn't paying 100k per wrestler he's paying 4 million plus

@hector4470

2 ай бұрын

Which is insanity…

@kazman_6899

2 ай бұрын

200k is jobber money

Damn you dropped the cocaine joke before I could

His company could be bigger than WWE by a thousandfold, but he's trying too hard to be just like them. People became invested in AEW when it first surfaced because people were craving an alternative to WWE, but now that they've become like WWE, the ratings are dropping, and he wonders why. I think a wrestler like "The British Bulldog" Harry Smith would be a smart business decision having him come to AEW, but Tony hasn't pulled the trigger on someone like him, and he needs a huge guy who can legitimately wrestle and use mat technique hold for hold. Harry is one of, if not the most skilled wrestlers in the world, for him to be as big as he is and to move like a lightweight would be able to, it's amazing. Not to mention, he's probably one of the physically strongest wrestlers in the world.

Its sad how AEW already killed Okada. Especially with putting him with the Young Bucks to look like a Comedy Act lackey and having Pac overshadow his first match and title victory! There is a reason why Punk got himself fired on purpose! Tony Khan does really STUPID things.

@N3gativeR3FLUX

2 ай бұрын

"Putting him with The Young Bucks." You clearly don't know their history, they've been friends for well over a decade. Of course Okada joined The Elite. The Bucks cutting a promo on Omega recently is just a setup for Okada and Omega to go at it again. Who do you think pushed to get the Bucks signed with New Japan?

@theemagicalgurl

2 ай бұрын

Killed him by putting an Upper Midcard Title on him by beating the current ROH Champion and having those same Young Bucks say he is "the example of what every AEW wrestler should be". People and their irrational hate of AEW.

@ishmael802

2 ай бұрын

@@N3gativeR3FLUXYou know who else helped the rock and was his friend? Downtown Bruno and Al Snow. Jussy because they were friends personally doesn’t mean the rock should be their lackey on TV.

Meanwhile Tony is going around now blaming anyone but himself for losing Punk

Oh shiiiooot!😊

WCW had 125 male wrestlers under contract in 1996.

I can't believe some of the people they're paying to sit around.... Parker Boudreaux... WYA

That is hilarious since Tony has done exactly the same thing for as long as AEW has existed 😂. I never even knew he did that interview

Spend that family money Tony

do any of you have access to the aew payroll?

Khan MUST be praying every night that aew gets a good tv deal to pay for all this sh*t

The best way to have a million in wrestling is start out with a billion.

What a Mark

If wrestling had a salary cap AEW would be way over it

the biggest problem with aew is they got bigger than they actually are in terms of who they are able to employ,this is primarily down to having a wealthy owner rather than being built from the ground up,originally when they began it was new and fresh working with relatively unknown talent that were being introduced to the larger wrestling audience,jericho was the recognised name that helped get eyes on this new company,fast forward to now and we have pretty much a stacked roster and the product is essentially a wcw copy and paste rather than the same ideology that they began with!

Clearly slamming the Peruvian sugar now, the difference is ridiculous😳

Imagine if TK put that money into production and advertising.

Was there at one point a handful of people from MMA and bareknuckle on the roster who weren't really utilized?

Wow that 2019 interview didn't age well at all lol but the Khans are made of money. I read that Tony's dad made more money last year and is now worth over $12 Billion. I'm sure they'll be alright. We need AEW to stay and give WWE competition. Plus its a great time to be a wrestler to get work and get paid. Wrestling fans win too with both companies around

Their yearly revenue right now is $154 million.

@andrew8168

2 ай бұрын

Is that TV, merch, PPV, and ticket sales?

@ishmael802

2 ай бұрын

$174 million

@codesm96

2 ай бұрын

Which doesn't seem far off from what they're currently spending each year. I doubt they break even

It’s wild because he just doesn’t fucking care about money. Ted Turner was a businessman, he had other companies with shareholders and boards and was negotiating deals and mergers. Tony is a 41 year old single son of a billionaire, who has “jobs” “running” teams and a wrestling company but had no idea how to do either. But it doesn’t matter because AEW can lost 34 million a year every year for its entire existence and internet marks and Tony on his troll Twitter accounts can praise every single thing they do. Which is wild because even serious WWE fans can say “this angle sucked. This push was meaningless, this person can’t work, this match was trash” but for AEW they literally can’t. They can have the most meaningless match with two people nobody watching on tv would know full of bitches and you go on Twitter and they are putting it over so hard. Because it doesn’t matter. None of this matters.

36 People Waiting Till 9 Big Show Grande Adue

The ex WWE stars (Bryan, Cole, Saraya) get big debuts but the hot freeagents (White, Okada, Osprey, May) are treated like scrubs.

That's one of the things that bothers me with AEW, there's several wrestlers in AEW that can be compared to Lanny Poffo's WCW run.

TK signed ever dog water ex WWE star he could. He completely ruined AEW. He has hired everyone he liked and it killed them. Their ratings are terrible. They start out well due to the Big Bang run off then die. And when ex WWE trash stars like Mone appear on TV the shows hits all time low numbers. They are lucky to hit 700k people. TK should fire the ex WWE trash, step away and let some else run the show. The fact that Mone makes 3 million a year as a botch queen blows my mind. She can't wrestle. She can't do promos. What a waste of money.

@hector4470

2 ай бұрын

Mone can do promos as a heel that’s always been her strong suit but she’s definitely not worth the money she’s getting hence why the WWE likely left the table when Khan outbid them probably.

Wait that’s the same Tony that paid Okada, Merc Mone, and Ospreay a ton of money?

That aged like potato salad in the trunk of your car on a hot summer's day.

This mf-er playing fire pro wrestling

"Hey Tony, let me borrow a dollar"

If any of the numbers speculated are remotely true, Tony Khan is paying Mercedes more than Bischoff paid for Hall and Nash combined.

@djmonstrosity6971

2 ай бұрын

That was 2001.Hall and Nash would probably be on $4-5 million today.

Oopsies 🤣🤣

Oh the irony 🤣My God he looked so much healthier back then most definitely on the powder.

It also shows how shitty the wrestlers are for taken advantage of Tony. But I get it to. Tony needs take back control of his company and get rid of well over half of AEW'S roster..

Forgot the video game wrestlers too 😂

Rene please pull the mic away a little its way to close and it looks like your eating a corn cob and it sounds rough lol

250 wrestlers on their roster??? Like how ridiculous is that

LMAO

@timbow1356

2 ай бұрын

You like asking women for pee videos 🧐

Rene nice mic, but you need a pop filter

@CombatTalkRadio

2 ай бұрын

He's just too close to it. That mic performs best in the "boom" (from above) position and about a foot away.

Does AEW really need all these wrestlers under contract or Per-Deal? 1. Teven 2. Mike Kannalis 3. Rocky Romero 4. Chuck Taylor 5. Trent Barretta 6. Christopher Daniels 7. Action Andretti 8. Amanda Huber 9. Mark Quinn 10. Isaiah Kassidy 11. Brandon Cultler 12. Michael Tozowa 13. Jose the Assistant 14. Preston Vance 15. Big Show 16. Kommander 17. Kieth Bryan 18. Kevin Kelly 19. Lancer Archer 20. Smart Mark Sterling * 21. Tony Neese 22. Kieth Lee 23. Diamanté 24. Abadon 25. mercedes Martinez 26. The Boyz #1 27. The Boyz #2 28. Luthor 29. Anthony Agogo 30. Tay Melo 31. Kiera Hogan 32. Colt Cabanna 33. Aaron Solo 34. Miro 35. The Righteous #1 36. The Righteous #2 37. Alex Marvez 38. Nick Wayne’s mom 39. Angelico 40. AR Fox 41. Ari Davari 42. Buddy Mathews 43. Malaki Black 44. Katsurya Shibata 45. Kota Ibushi 46. Kyle O’Reilly 47. Nick Comorto 48. Pac 49. Peter Avalon 50. Serpentico 51. Shawn Dean 52. The Blade 53. The Butcher 54. Wheeler Yuta 55. Emi Sakura 56. Leyla Hirsch 57. Marina Shafir 58. Nyla Rose 59. Paige Van Zant 60. Rebel 61. Taya Valkyrie 62. Yuka Sakazaki 63. Alex Abrahantez 64. Arn Anderson 65. Pat Buck 66. Rick knox 67. Bryce Remsburg 68. Jake the Snake 69. Kevin Kelly 70. Mark Henry 71. Karen Jarret 72. Sanjay Signh 73. Shane Taylor 74. Lee Morirty 75. Maria Kanalis 76. Scropio Sky 77. Ethan Page 78. Ryan Nemeth 79. Sammy Guevrra 80. Griff Garrison 81. Jake Hager 82. Dralistico 83. Hikura shida 84. RJ City 85. Negative 1 86. Jack Perry 87. AQA 88. Parker Broudex

@kazman_6899

2 ай бұрын

I'd keep about 15 of those. There's another 75 that I would have never signed, and they include "big stars"

@user-rx2hw8up2j

2 ай бұрын

A who's who...who? Of wrestling

I guessed 200 on that roster.

AEW TALK FOREVER

Moxley is 5 million

I just enjoy how AEW pays great contracts which AEW fans think is great and when you point they have to be hemorrhaging money cause of how much the roster costs, AEW fans then go full idiot and scream “have you seen their books, waaaaaaaaahhhhh you can’t prove it”

Osprey is uprooting to another country, so the “weekly” trips probably are about buying a new house

No guys that doesn't mean they get that million dollars off top,all at once 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Just because you're rich due to your parents, doesn't mean that you'll be a good business man/woman!😅