Tony Khan is an Elite MARK

The Coke Bruh Commander

When I was 8 I had an epic Wrestling figure feud between King Kong Bundy and spikor from masters of the universe, it completely qualifies me to book a major Wrestling promotion

"This booking makes Vince Russo look like Eddie Graham" - Jim Cornette

No shit. Tony Khan collects wrestlers like action figures.

Glad to hear you back, TGBL! My deepest sympathy to you and your family for the passing of your father.

So According to Tony Kahn i'm a great booker since i play WWE 2k22

I would give my life savings to see jim play GM mode in wwe2k. someone should introduce him to it.

The biggest mark in the building is the boss 🤣

With The Elite returning and Punk out of AEW, Tony will probably drive AEW out of business by 2024 with his cocaine fueled booking.

Brian is spot on about those GI Joe figures. A Visionary was a perfect 7ft giant.

Welcome back Brian! Condolences on the loss of your father

Tony doesn't do a thing. He's clearly not playing with a full deck, and his dad can afford to put him in positions so he can say he's doing something with his life, but any serious tasks are handled by others. AEW exists so Tony doesn't break anything important, like a football team.

We need to get some interviews with people who grew up with Tony. Not his friends but people who went to highschool with him. I want to know exactly what kind of weirdo this guy is.

There's a lot of reading in between the lines, but once you do, it really goes to show that TK has not only been shielded, but he's also been seemingly deprived of attention growing up. There's more to this, but even this much explains a lot about how he views the world around him.

I think if Jim had been convinced to take the AEW job at the beginning, the stress would have literally killed him

We always knew this but it's still insane to hear it. When I wrote a column for lords of pain back in 2000 I booked my own Nitro. I got lots of praise and even an email from Chris Candido telling me he liked it. But I never thought for a second that qualified me to be a real wrestling booker. And I was actually booking angles and storylines not just matches I thought would get a good review from Dave Meltzer.

Someone needs to find copies of Tony's old Fantasy Booking formats. And Jim can read them out on the show.

If I wrestled for Tony, all I heard is that the Booker doesn’t really think of me as a person as much as a plaything. He’ll destroy my body if I let him

Welcome back Brian Last!

Fantasy booking? Well, it's like I've said: Tony Khan is like that kid who playing WCW/NWO Revenge, except that he's rich, all grown up and gets to live out those fantasies he had as a kid with actual wrestlers rather than a video game.

To Brian - Tony was most likely playing EWR (Extreme Warfare Revenge) - it was by far the most popular wrestling booking sim on the market, and had forums where people could post their shows (some would even write out the promo segments for workers, and go into great detail on the angles). Later on, he might have been playing TEW (Total Extreme Warfare) - it was made by the same developer as EWR, but went into much more detail, and again there's forums out there for players to post their shows.

Now you see why Tony Khan loves Hangman Page and books him the way he does. They are basically the same people. Tony see himself in Hangman Page

Brian's Rhodes to the top comment was gold 😂

Love the Cobra Commander artwork!

I thought Dynamite was named that because the show was on TNT. Turns out it was from TK’s childhood lol

Welcome back Bryan and sorry for you loss brother. Stay Strong. Love when you and Jim do these shows together. The Chris Jericho Alien Abduction segment from this episode was absolutely hilarious too lol.

A lot of people compare AEW to WCW, they couldn't be anymore wrong..AEW is TNA when Hogan was running the shop🤣🤣

Sorry for your loss, Brian, That's a rough one. All the best to you, and yours, and welcome back.

Why would you even admit this? 🤣 Wtf man

Tony Khan fantasy booked with a stretch Armstrong and a G.I joe now he thinks he's dusty rhodes

Implies that Tony ever learnt to book.

Welcome back Brian. Sincerest condolences. If my understanding is correct, basically Tony doesnt live on the plane of reality in terms of booking

I've booked 98% EWR cards, so naturally I should take over booking AEW at some stage

3.5 inch G.I. Joes were the absolute best for my promotion Armchair Wrestling. Most events were held at the local Armor whatever chair I was sitting in. We had mobile locations called Middleseat Arena and our big show was Was a multi tier match similar to scaffold matches but on the Stairs.

Tony wont be able to blow all of his dads money, and this hobby keeps him away from profitable businesses

G.I. Jim! Knowing is half the battle!

Already miss Brian Solomon, but glad to hear Last is back

Travis this is your best work. Stop digging, you struck gold.

South Park Tony Khan never fails to make me laugh.

Imagine someone making a multimillion dollar wrestling promotion with a tv contract and his only experience is a fantasy booking game.

The Attitude Era and Khan going through puberty was the perfect visual that I needed to get through my morning 🙄🤦🏿‍♂️

Damn he’s been bugging his dad for wrestling since 95 lol In 2011 he was doing fantasy leagues for wrestling lol

Tony Khan's best of 7 trios matches, will definitely make him booker of the year..

He's right about the 3.5 inch gi joe being the best for.wresting .Could do every move besides a figure four and the likes

Those small GI Joes were versatile af, they could do all kinds of crazy action scenes. Big Josh 😄

Tony is talking about a sim game called EWR/TEW. It isn't just something in his head.

Jesus. There's NO question the locker room has any respect for Tony. They collect their checks and laugh at Tony as he leaves a room

I feel like his "other friend" sounds suspiciously like stuff Chris Jericho is likely telling him nowadays

Condolences Brian Last.

...so, Tony is admitting to what we've all been saying for years now... ...Tony treats these wrestlers like real-life action figures and every new hire is like him being a kid at Toys R US buying a new figure... 😳 "oohhh! look! pre-orders for a new Randy Orton figure are online!"

Brian is absolutely right. No toy was more versatile for wrestling than those GI Joe's, I used them for that all the time.

I was going to say the 3rd show is Battle Of the Belts 🤣🤣🤣🤣

As a kid in the 90s I can confirm Brian’s absolutely correct, the 3.5 Gi joe figures were perfect for wrestling toy federations.

My first wrestling house show was in Champaign as well. Main event was Hulk Hogan vs Big Bossman.

Man this explains so many of the problems AEW has.

No way, those can't be the statements of a grown man running a business. I wasn't expecting to laugh so hard today xD

This explains a lot. No further questions.

Tony matured? News to me and pretty much everyone else

If Tony Khan ran Cobra Kai.

welcome back Brian, you've been missed and our thoughts have been with you sir. ❤️

So all my created characters on Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth qualifies me to run a wrestling promotion? COOL!

Reminds me back when we had those big hard rubber WWF wrestlers, and a big ring to have matches in. If they had still had them a decade later, maybe AEW would have stayed in his bedroom.

That's great. Me and a childhood friend did the same exact thing with GI Joe's. Hearing that comment brought back some memories

7:22 _“It was called Rhodes to the Top”_ 😆

Just in time for Christmas, it's G.I. Corny with tennis racket grip.

To be fair vince only wrote for one person

Brian is on point, g.i. joes specifically the dreadnaughts doubled as wrestlers perfectly. If they made the wrestling figures kids would have been more entertained by their own playing then tv wrestling now

Based on Tony's booking I would say he hates wrestling.

Oh jeez, Brian did the same thing I did as a kid basically with the G.I.Joe action figures having fantasy wrestling matches, and I would use the WWF toy ring meant for the smaller Kenner line of figures. Tony though... good lord... I also ran a personal e-fed for years using the video games about as long as he did but there is no way in hell I would ever throw any of the ideas I had in front of a TV camera and broadcast it to the world because I was stupid and none of it would work in real life booking, it was just for me to have fun with. I can absolutely tell everything he books has the air of fantasy "video game logic" booking smeared all over it.

The hilarious thing with AEW is the least experienced person at the company is booking the whole show 😂

In my fantasy booked wrestling I had as a kid Ultimo Dragon, and Owen Hart had an epic best of seven series. Vader and Vampiro were my top heels. Memories! I think I have a championship holder list somewhere in a box.

Jim should start a series where he runs AEW or WWE and someone simulates it all on TEW. It would be hilarious.

Bahahaha, I always thought they called it Dynamite because they thought they were being clever being on TNT.

I had my own batman and friends wrestling show too. Nightquest Batman was basically Kane, and I finished out the promotion by having my first ever figure finally win the big one after slowly climbing up the card for years by outlasting the baddest ninja heel there was! Guess this means I could take over TNA and bring it back to greatness right?

GI Jim: Booking is half the battle!

Tony Khan is this generations Russo and I mean that.

As someone who played EWR far more than I'd like to admit and even dabbled in e-Fedding, this is fucking embarrassing.

It sounds like Tony Khan was up all night playing Dungeons & Dragons with his 2 "friends" who only hung out with him because hes a rich mark, but they used wrestling action figures on their E-wrestling booking campaigns.. wouldn't surprise me if Tony was still doing this till this day.

He never told us what kind of ratings he was getting on his made-up shows.

The toyline that Jim couldn't remember, the one with Big Josh as a character, was called ... (drumroll) BIG JIM.

That article just made me sad for Tony Khan, tbh. Sounds like Rich Daddy Warbucks just bought him the promotion to make him happy he never paid attention to his lonely, pathetic son when he was younger.

TK seems like a really nice guy, but I wouldnt put him in charge of any company, and definitely not a wrestling company.

Hasbro springy figures with Ninja Turtles and X-Men….hello 😂

I think Tony got the name Dynamite from Monday Nitro... LOL 🤣

The three and three quarter inch Joe figures were perfect. you can put on actual holds you can put on things like the Sharpshooter, figure 4, Cobra clutch and all kinds of other submission holds.

I don't think that's how puberty works in either case 😭😭😭

Welcome back Brian my condolences for the loss of ur father🙏🙏🙏

The real cobra commander captured four autobots. TK couldn't capture a moment with a Polaroid.

Full confirmation. This MARK is a dangerous cross between Dixie Carter & Herb Abrams. But in his "fantasy booking" he thinks he's Vince McMahon III with Ted Turner's money.

Thank you

Welcome back Brian, sorry for your loss. The other guy was good but I missed you.

I thought I was the only one who used G.I. Joes to fantasy book wrestling 🤣 I would go and get wrestling magazines and anyone not in WWF or NWA would get booked in my fantasy promotion. I'd have a PPV everyday after school. Matter of fact, when I got Serpentor I was so geeked because he was gonna be the main heel in my promotion 🤣

Welcome back Brian 👍

Brian Last describing his joe federation as i did mine too was pure nostolgia joy! I used Hogans gold and black belt from the big dolls that were like thick plastic. The tag titles could only be got buy buying the bulldogs or sheik and volkov. Lol

If I could sum up Tony Khan in one word it would be delusional. The man hasn't got a clue.

I’m in the heating and air business and no it doesn’t work like that Jim 😂😂

I think there's another interesting line of thinking that was glossed over @3:53 Tony said that when he was fantasy booking Dynamite, he would start over in a new territory with new stories every few years. The real life Dynamite has existed for a few years now and because it is a business with contractual obligations Tony cannot relaunch, even if he wanted to. So instead he bought up tons of new talent (to AEW at least) as the workaround. The big obstacles are that Tony has to deal with or ignore the problems he didnt face in a fantasy e-fed and since he is not capable of starting fresh he's letting things get stale e.g Jericho being way too much of a presence on shows.

haha I did the same thing with GI Joe figures! "1987 Cobra Commander with Battle Armor" was my RVD (for some reason) as an example haha

A work friend and I do fantasy booking to pass time. We are older so we use the territory wrestlers though. Maybe I can start my own nationally broadcast mud show too!