Jim Cornette Reviews Tony Khan's Media Call Comments About AEW Booking In 2024
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- Опубликовано: 5 янв 2024
- From Episode 324 of the Jim Cornette's Drive Thru
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Tony isn’t here to make money. He’s here to make friends
One friend made him fear for his life
He's certainly not making any sense.
and have fun!
We knew that
Right now he's not doing very well at either one.
The dings for "great" is such a good gimmick.
It’s the best
It’s great
@@chrismcelligott5462 Trash.
Ding
Funniest shit
Riho being compared to kill bill should be a crime against humanity
I can hear the 'Bride alarm' going off whenever Jim hears Riho's name......
😂😂😂
She's even smaller than GoGo Yubari.
Only people that would make this comparison are people with brain damage.
He thinks that he can punch his way out of a casket buried 6 foot deep
This is why Punk suddenly looks ten years younger.
All he has to do is dye some of those greys and he will look 35
Last words before AEW collapses: "Thanks guys"
Well the collapse was great *Ding
Signing off from Starship Announcement 😂
😂😂
More like first words after the collapse.
I'm sure they would have been on an incredible run of shows, too.
Tony's ability to ignore reality and just create his own is almost admirable.
Golden spoon child
It’s a common condition these days…..
When you have that kind of money at your disposal, you build your own reality.
Shanna Khan turned out alright. What happened with Tony?
Lol Not really admirable anymore bcz a lot people in wrestling ( and the whole world tbh ) do that nowadays.
I can’t believe a owner of a major wrestling company gave cagematch validation 😂💀
There's nothing wrong with Cagematch. The databases are very cool and interesting. As far as the fan ratings and comments are concerned, you just need to understand what they are - and what they are not. Only a highly emotionally invested demographic of hardcore fans is present, it's not a representation of the wrestling audience as a whole. And it's definitely not representative for the general mainstream entertainment audience, that he would need to reach to finally have his company going somewhere, in any way.
I'm not sure Tony gets that. For a self-proclaimed "statistics and analytics guy", that's just baffling. Maybe his understanding of analytics is as _solid_ as his grasp on how the scientific method works...
@@henrygvidonas9573 couldn’t agree more 💯
Tony Khan is the perfect definition of verbal diarrhoea.
The guy is asked about wrestling booking and is saying shit about experimental control groups 😂
And toxic positivity.
I could eat a bowl of Post Alphabits, and Alphaghetti and crap out a more coherent word salad than Tony Kahn.
Remember when internet marks hated McMahon “booking for an audience of one?”
At least McMahon had a good eye for top stars
This is different. Tony is booking for an audience of 100. He is therefore 100 times better than Vince.
Cokie is booking for an audience of Meltzer
Don’t forget collecting wrestlers like action figures then quickly losing interest in them.
Taking Cagematch ratings seriously is even sadder than taking Meltzer's word as gospel like a lot of internet fans do.
Fr
In Tony's mind, he's the greatest booker of all time, ready to threepeat as "Booker of the Year." In reality, his booking should be ranked between someone booking backyard garbage wrestling, and whoever decided the NWA's cocaine angle was a good idea.
Incredibly he already has 3 in a row so looking for a 4th. Apparently it's fans who vote hence why AEW does so well and WWE poorly because anyone still bothering with Old Man Meltzer is just a biased fan.
Cocaine is never a solution...unless of course you dissolve it in water
He truly thinks Gagne, Crockett, Heyman, Cornette, Watts could learn something from him. He's delusional.
MaxxDahl
He’s as delusional as Qanon.
He also defended sex predators like Joey Ryan, Mike Quackenbush and Chasyn Rance after their convictions like his Bitcharoo buddies did. Joey Ryan was on AEW television.
Cornette wondered years ago if Kenny was hooking Dave up with Japanese schoolgirls. Given Japan’s disgusting age of consent, and Dave’s defense of perverts, I wouldn’t be shocked if Kenny and Emi hooked him up with Maki Itoh, and she took the piss on him.
Well hes a coke head😅😂
Tony is arguing that his tournament getting the Collision ratings from 325k to 375k is proof of the great success of his recent booking. People...please don't forget Collision was at 750k-850k with Punk. His argument is one of the dumbest things he's said yet. And that's saying something.
Thanks guys 👀
We're on a great run 😂
This was seriously incoherent, it was very difficult to even understand what he was referencing or talking about
@@thesneakysquid🔔
Nah the fan feedback was the dumbest one yet. Dude is running a business and he’s basing on how great his shows have been on a wrestling fan site. Not ratings, merchandise or ticket sales. He’s basing it on some basement dwellers’ opinions.
Shows have been GREAT this year. AEWFan4LifeWWESux said so.
I've never known anyone else who loves the sound of his voice more than Tony.
Tony's had all these thoughts about wrestling that he's been wanting to get out for 30 years, with no one to tell them to. I'm convinced that's why he does the scrums, lmao 😭
Russo
We need a ding counter competition between Tony saying great and Russo saying bro.
@@joeybegoode9067never turn it into a drinking game, Jim would lose his viewership to alcohol poisoning
@@joeybegoode9067the score would look like a NFL game
People think waterboarding is torture? Try listening to Tony Khan for an hour and you’ll know the true meaning of the word “torture.”
I wonder what the reaction of people on these media calls is like when Tony starts going off on these random 20 minute rants/tangents, then again I assume they are the same people who go to these media scrums so know the deal and put up with it because they get special treatment by AEW
Could have been worse. You could be spending Christmas watching it with him.
Thanks guys
Then you add Dave Meltzer to the mix, and your chances of staying sane drastic go down.
The cia should force terrorists to listen to Tony khan. They’ll get info in no time.
Jim and Brian go on break and the wrestling world starts catching on fire. The anticipation waiting for them to come back and just talk about everything going was insane, but I am so glad they're back and these videos are trickling in. lmao
A few years ago they took a break and Bray Wyatt caught fire. Literally.
Touch grass bro
💯💯💯💯
@@daleharris3809😅😅 May he RIP
Tony is the living embodiment of the "This is Fine" meme.
Yea he reminds me of that meme of the dog in the burning house saying 'this is fine' teehee
"...this is great."
🛎️
If this is how Tony talks to WARNER BROS it's no surprise they'd rather work with WWE
Now waiting for Jim to review that brilliant, scientifically booked Adam Cole "the devil" angle.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
All we need to know is Tony has somehow buried MJF, Adam Copeland, and Christian Cage. Ric Flair is going senile. Sting is 65, and about to retire. And it looks like the biggest heel for the foreseeable future is Adam Cole. Doink the Clown looks somewhat respectable at this point.
I’d take Heel Doink vs Crush again over AEW at this point.
An Adam Cole who’s injured for the foreseeable future.
Sting…has retired from AEW, MJF, Adam Copeland, and Christian Cage are making AEW watchable
Christian Cage!? How so?
@@sawtooth808 I don't know what you're high on but I want some.
He brings up Cage Match so much I'm about to register there and give everything a 1 whether I liked it or not
some men just want to watch the ring burn
like Harley Race
@@karma_coinand kane but his case it was literal
@@karma_coinif Harley Race walks in and says he wants to burn the ring down? I’d have it on fire before he finishes his sentence.
😂😂😂😂
From my understanding votes have to be approved. Ever time I see a screenshot of the website. It tells you how many of the votes were "valid". The juice wont be worth the squeeze on that one you would have to waste too much time praising AEW to infiltrate a group of weird marks.
Tony might have been the only person interested in the Continental classic. It was a tournament with no storylines involved, and consisted of some guys who were mathematically out of it. Even his announcers struggled to explain it.
Untrue. Go on any other social media and say bad things about it, you'll find that lots of people were interested. Several dozens, at least.
@@imfreviewsit was garbage and if Tony was smart he would’ve had his hottest upcoming star Swerve win but he’s such a clueless clown when it comes to booking.
@@cantstopwontstop5165 I wouldn't personally call it 'garbage'. It had good action and it was red meat for the fanbase. It created a story for Eddie Kingston, and that's also red meat for the fanbase.
But so many issues.
My biggest problem with it is that for six weeks, you had 12 guys taking up half off of the TV time, because every match had to go to almost twenty minutes, because of course it does. (NOTE: When WWE puts Damage Control and Judgment Day out ever week for a whole half hour, that is a BAD thing, but this is OK, because it's AEW. So say the tribalists).
Some guys had to come out looking like complete chumps - Lethal and Briscoe come to mind.
The overall prize was completely meaningless, except to the guy who won it because he's a mark for himself.
And it did nothing to improve AEW's *business*. It was just a wrestling exhibition.
So I would call it "pointless overall" rather than "garbage".
"I've been booking AEW since the 90s ... in my mind" - Tony Khan 👀
@@imfreviewspointless in wrestling means garbage. Any booking that doesn't have a point to it is worthless. I thought the point of the g1 was to get all the upper card guys (upper midcard/main event), am I wrong?
Wow, what a GREAT media call!
Ding
@@barrymccockiner773 Trash.
How many greats im to lazy to count
I would put that media call up against any media call from any other wrestling company in the world!
@@Shagrath71 You are right it was GREAT🛎️
9:45-10:00 Tony trying to explain his booking like a 7th grade science class lecture got me lmfao😆
I've never seen such a perfect example of Dunning-Kruger, especially with how he switched from talking about booking to trying to talk about the points total as a real incentive...
Great clip
This teleconference is the final proof the TK has no idea,
Jim really dodged a bullet by not joining
Thanks guys
Cornette would definitely be fired by now 😂for doing something inappropriate
*ding*
Jim ran like the wind before Tony even started loading the gun. 😂
Jim hasn't done anything inappropriate so far, not sure why be would start with AEW
@@karma_coinHe probably would've pulled a Punk on Pockets and the Kookamunga Kidz
Tony Khan using Cagematch ratings as a measurement for success is like some random guy using his grandmother's compliment about "how tall you've gotten" and "how handsome you are" in a resume to become the new CEO of a major company.
Yes, the most faithful and invested of hardcore fans are not a representation of his entire current audience - and not even remotely anything close to a representation of the audience he needs to get, to grow AEW.
It's almost impossible to reach casual fans by tailoring your product exclusively for the tastes of superfans. It's completely impossible to make them stay long-term as regulars that way. Chili-garlic-flavoured cola has a very limited potential to get a major market share for a reason.
More like Disney getting their new ideas for movies from The Mary Sue or ScreenRant.
I know its going to be GREAT but I have to watch this to find out how GREAT it is.
Ding ding
@@messey12 Trash.
🔔
Ding
"Jim.."
"Rhhhhh"
Amazing start already
I like how Travis put Tony in the snowman sweater.
Ha.
Worthless trash.
AEW is truly amazing, its got wrestlers pretending to be wrestlers, owners pretending to be owners and journalists pretending to be journalists.
...and fans pretending they like it all
Do you guys think WWE is doing it better right now? I do
@@WrestlingBro91 It's run by someone who knows how this is supposed to work, they have agents who understand the business, and wrestlers who listen to them
Of course they're doing it better!
(Of course, that doesn't mean it's any more worth watching LOL)
That is exactly AEW
@@WrestlingBro91 They have The Rock, CM Punk, Cody Rhodes, Randy Orton, LA Knight, Roman Reigns, AJ Styles, The Judgement Day, and that's not all. Triple H is kicking Tony's ass, and Tony is buckling fast.
TK is so far into his denial and that’s by far the worst thing going for AEW and it gets more ridiculous every year
They tried to take Tony to rehab, but he said no, no, no.
Hearing Tony khan talk is painful
With "experimental booking" now out there... Can't wait to see The AEW Referees vs The AEW Cameramen in Blood & Guts this coming summer.
😂
I hate that term so much. All booking is “experimental” because you never know how the audience will react, even when you try to control most of the variables. He acts like poor decisions are groundbreaking discoveries in wrestling and wants a pat on the back for it.
Starring Cutlet on the camera man side, who gets eliminated first because everyone finds him annoying and too mud show for the match.
I honestly think Tony's irrevocably insane. He's completely divorced from reality.
He sounds like every CEO ever. Unable to take any responsibility at all.
Tony Khan, one of the minds of a generation
He is a free thinker... at least in the sense that no-one would want to pay even a penny for his thoughts!
Truly one of them
Imagine if a director or a producer talked about how successful his film was because people on IMDB gave it a high rating.
I take that back. Most films on IMDB have more than 100 ratings.
also WWE has Punk which is why they got a 3rd show lol
The absolute absurdity of Tony’s comments on Riho is my favorite part. I refuse to believe anyone has ever watched a riho match and said man I’ve gotta come back next week to see what she will do. Also I’m convinced now he’s booking things with stories in his head and expecting people to just get it if we were supposed to without any context get kill bill from riho coming back. Did he also think the tournament was like the karate kid?
Just the idea of putting the belt on a woman who’s under 100 lbs is insulting to almost every other female wrestler in that division.
Womens wrestling is just pointless in any way shape or form.
I swear, I'm looking forward to "The Rise and Fall of AEW" on Peacock more and more. 😂
What rise
AEW isn't important enough to get one of those.
@@jamespaul6315 The story of the original "All In" to the end of the first "Dynamite" in 2019. That was the rise.
The initial impact of CM Punk brought another rise and phase of upward momentum after the first slump and long drought, arguably.
As a TV product, AEW isn't really falling right now with "Dynamite". It's just dead in the water. Viewer numbers have been a lot worse before than they are right now, but it's simply not growing. "Rampage" and "Collision" are a different story. The shrinking live event business is a COMPLETELY different story.
@@henrygvidonas9573 Love these wrestlig youtube channels like What Culture that act like AEW is doing great. I even heard one of those bald jackoffs say that ratings being down is because of chord cutting and thats it. I dont think the UK realizes how bad AEW is doing over here
I’m here for Brian Last’s nonstop popping during Tony’s idiomatic rants LMAO!
😂😂😂😂
If anyone here ever gets into an aew media scrum , please make the ding sound when TK says GREAT until they kick you out.
If TK wants to turn this thing around maybe he should bite the bullet and give VKM 1billion$ and 50% of aew
You’re a punk pal
If I ever could get in to the media scrum I would definitely hit the ding every time he says Great
@@brockconsalo1838 liar
The Elite?? Tony Khan, Pal!! I’ve got it!! We’ll put them in PooPoo outfits like those things on that internet deal, and call them The Excrete Pal!! AH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH!!! AH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH!!
Cokie begins fearing for his life.
its funny how he mentions cagematch yet their last ppv wasn't doing so good there
Just watched another great (ding) episode of Collision. They are actually planning to put Jericho on live TV next Saturday. Should be great (ding).
As they should can’t punish someone for 1 allegation by a crazy woman
There are very few women in that audience, so they should be safe.
@@pleaseshutup7053 Not the point. Tony can't control how the live crowd responds. It could get ugly considering the crowd tonight shit on the announcement when it was made.
@@johnhill6412 you can just censor it and is collision even a live show. The money Jericho is getting paid sitting out is not an option
@@MichaelSmith-fq6hz Bwahaha
Vince Russo said it it best, "No one in AEW is going to tell TK about his booking and business decisions because they all work for him".
Isn't it funny that Russo is cornettes mortal enemy but him and cornette acutally share alot of the same incentives when it's come to how aew is booked.
Monkeys can imitate humans, doesn't make Russo any more intelligent if he can spout something that occasionally makes sense.
Because there all being paid by his dad
Russo is better booker than Tony.
Broken clocks, as they say.
I can't believe Tony Khan actually used an Internet nerd website as Aew data.
Ha.
Voted for by people that rate every AEW match highly regardless of quality anyway
@@freddiejohnson6137 it's unbelievable. Here have a 🍪.
Ha.
Worthless trash.
@@freddiejohnson6137 all 100 of em versus thousands who disagree
“The science of the booking.” I have never heard Brian make that noise before and I’m a big follower of the Noises of Brian.
Now I have this picture in my mind of Tony as a mad scientist, conducting experiments on his creature, AEW, and shouting: "It's great...! It's great...!"
There was a RUclips livestream of a Tony Khan media call, I was curious about it so I clicked on it and watched it for a few minutes, all he did was praise himself and his company so I just left, one hour later I saw they were still live, I clicked on it again and he was still talking about how great everything is, how much time does this guy have?
He's all hopped up on Adderall and Woooooo!!!! Energy drinks, he probably never sleeps
It’s really easy to ramble when you’re flying on 120 mg’s of adderall
What the hell is the science of booking and experimental booking? This isn’t mark booking it’s just dumb. Can Tony’s dad plz go get him?
He need someone pulling the plug on this garbage.
The whole reason this whole fiasco even exists is so Big Daddy Shaddy can spend the least amount of time with his embarrassing and monotonic offspring
@@Dr170 yeah but now we all have to deal with him.
@@RandalfElVikingo Yeah WBD
What a strange man, this was the chance to have a competitive company to rival WWE.
What a shame!
he tried but he likes to smell his own fart
It was never gonna work. He created this out of spite because he was mad at WWE creative decisions, he didnt like as a fan. The guy is nothing more than a wrestling fan who thinks he knows more than others.
Riho on a revenge mission might be the funniest thing I've ever heard! A 98 pound hit woman floating around like a feather in the wind... 🌬
Every time TK starts a response with "great question..." you know he will not respond to the question and will praise himself instead
DING!
"I'll just keep talking " 😂😂😂. Yes we know Tony. You just ramble on incoherently.
Tony completely lost his marbles. He's all over the place. Get him help. He's not well.
This is a great video, thanks guys!
DING
The delusion of Tony never ceses to amaze me.
Imagine if there was no evps and proper people running AEW where they would be.
Such a pity
If you look at aew form the start to now. It becomes pretty clear that it was Cody trying to make the show work.
You know, what most people don’t realize is that people with that much money DONT think the way the rest of us do. We have things we worry about. They don’t. They never have to worry about anything we do. So they don’t connect with us.
If you took a drink every time Tony said “great” in an interview, you would need to call an ambulance within three minutes
Don't stop dinging when Tony says great that shit is funny
Listening to Tony try to explain research methodology was classic!
Kinda crazy that Tony still hasn’t appointed actual experts to be Head of Creative , Head Of Talent Relations , etc… despite all of the incidents that have happened and the issues that they’ve had , if that doesn’t convince him to do that , I doubt anything will.
It's a toy for him to play with. He's just playing not trying to put out a good product or make it a successful promotion.
Tony, dude, you booked a round robin tournament, you didn't split the atom. Dial it back.
Jim keeps asking if anyone can be honest with Tony. Cm punk was honest, look what happened lmao
The fact in his mind he looks at RIHO as a star, Kenny and the bucks have to have video of Tony doing some very insane stuff
The bell cracks me up every time 😂😂
Same here lol
The Answer: a 2000 word monologue about how great everything is where not once does he come up for oxygen or let anybody else speak with 300 adjectives for great
The question: sir I just want to know where the bathroom is
Ding, ding
Tony is more interested in getting a high rated match on a website than actually booking matches that lead to something or have a payoff. It's all well and good having these weekly workrate matches but they loose their meaning of they are all the time. When NXT hit it's peak for matches you would get the odd great one on the weekly show but they usually really went overboard for the takeover show.
People when AEW started said those kinds of matches would create a new book period for wrestling... well if it was going to do it then it would have done it already. Like it or not too many matches with stupid spots and 40 false finishes in loads of matches isn't going to bring in new fans because it makes it look even more fake that they thought it was before.
NXT black and gold is literally what AEW is in 2024. Even the same people
This feels like being at a Christmas party with the most annoying person from your job.
Tony may have a legitimate mental breakdown when he doesn't win Booker of the year in the Wrestling Observer awards.
He'll win. They won't give it to anything related to WWE and there's no other candidates.
@@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasomalol exactly, its not even pretending to be legitimate
I'd really hate to think Dean Malenko is responsible for any of this mess.
Interviewer: Tony, loved the show. My question to you is what is your favorite cereal, and why?
Tony: Kelloggs Frosted Flakes. They're great!
*Ding*
“Hundreds of votes on cagematch”
Bro he’s completely lost 🤦♂️
All of those votes are AEW super marks in the IWC. Thats not the majority of wrestling fans or casuals. Guy is completely lost
Tony Khan ladies and gentlemen, truly the Chris Chan of sports entertainment bravo!
I reckon Daniel Bryan is Tony's right hand guy now cos he's a "YES" man 😂
Dude the cagematch ratings as validation is hilarious, sad and highly concerning.
Tony has become such a mark for himself that it’s bordering on insufferable arrogance. Listening to him talk about how great everything is, no matter how much it contradicts reality with stagnant ratings and quarter full buildings, is beyond insufferable. And unfortunately he has so much money that the only time there will be a reality check is if it network no longer deems it worth their time.
The really sad thing is that Tony believes every single thing he said. All of it.
Has Cornette and Last reviewed the AEW Worlds End ppv?
"The 3 points incentive for a win." Has there ever been a draw in the history of the AEW besides the one time between Danielson and Omega? This is ridiculous.
No. And you want to know why? LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZY Booking.
I think Cesaro just had a draw.
@@wilcee238 Not in the tournament. I'm not even sure they've had a DQ finish.
@@TheMadmageapparently a Claudio match in the stupid tournament went to a draw. Wasn’t memorable cause I had to look it up to see if it actually happened 🤣
Kenny v Pac, Danielson v Page, Adam Cole v MJF
Jesus fuckin christ that thumbnail 🤣🤣
nobody does it better than Travis
I gotta admit Tony is funny as hell without even trying 🤣
"I'm going to cut my throat, if this isn't over soon."
-James E. Cornette.
Ha.
Worthless trash.
Oh lord, he's going to put the belt on Riho isn't he?
If Riho was meant to be in a Kill Bill revenge angle, maybe she should stop smiling on the way to the ring.
Every time Jim hits the bell, I smile. 😂
Continental Classic sounds like the name of a hotel’s breakfast buffet
how much time does Tony spend explaining the scientific method?
AEW fans and the talent treat Tony like he's a Make-a-Wish kid.
Yeah, he makes their wishes for money
I watch a bit of wrestling & have for decades, I didn’t know Cage Matcb had a review segment, normal fans do not look at Cage Match, Marks look at Cage Match.
When he goes into experimental booking, I was dumbfounded. TK needs to take the book from himself.
“Tony ya boy ain’t got it.”
The first AEW press scrum after MJF appears at the Royal Rumble should be quite the treat.
I wish
The feedback needs to be the quarterly ratings. They tell you EXACTLY what draws people to tune in and what drives them away. If you have talent who routinely drives off 100,000+ viewers on their segments, maybe it should be a sign they're not working as presented and change them up. Even Vince Russo is interviews said that's what he did in WWF in the 90's! You don't go with what 100 people who love your product regardless say over what 100k people are telling you with their remote.
He was vaccinated with a phonograph needle. Greatest quote of the year so far
DINGGĜGGGG!
Tony is genuinely out of his f*cking mind.
Is Tony saying GREAT in the Guinness book of records?🏆
I wonder how Tony liked the fan feedback to his "big get" Kota Ibushi after the NOAH New Year's show disaster?
Walk-and-brawl for five years with no count-outs and folding chair spots in prepared cleared areas of the arena, a million miles away from the ring, is "old-school sports-based wrestling" on Planet Tiny...
Jimmy and B-Ryyyyy have been the most entertaining thing in rassssling the past few years. 2023 was funny as hell. They have literally got me to go watch online clips like Marina Shafirs promo when they said "someone said on twitter, it looked like huckleberry finn forgot his fuckin name" and the calling out of Dave M., The cucamonga kids, Tony K, Keeeeeeennneeeeyy , rehooo!!!!!!!!! I can' get enough baby! wooooooooooooooo!
Great video, thanks guys. Really good stuff, we’re so excited.
The "GREAT" ding is my new favorite addition to this show.
Tony's eyes in the thumbnail, hahahaha
We might need a new sound for every time Tony uses the word "Annnnd".
"The show is great! The booking is great! Everything is great! Thanks, guys! "
🛎🛎🛎
Can we all agree that other than Antonio Khanoki Tony should only be referred to as PETER PAN! He’s this generation’s Michael Jackson. 🙄