Tony Khan asked if he regrets airing AEW All In Backstage footage
Tony Khan (via Chris Russell Show) was asked if he regrets airing AEW All In Backstage footage.
“I think it made a lot of sense. First of all, the Young Bucks-FTR ladder match is coming up at AEW Dynasty for the World Tag Team Championships. This is the fourth chapter in FTR-Young Bucks.
I believe they are the two greatest tag teams in wrestling, the two best on the planet. The last time they wrestled, Young Bucks-FTR 3, was at Wembley Stadium, AEW All In. A lot happened that day. Those guys at one point, they were the third match on the pay-per-view, and at one point, it looked like we were going to have to call them up and they were going to have to wrestle the first match.
They ended up going on in the spot they were in, but the Young Bucks said the whole day, everything that happened, it affected their mental preparation, they weren’t able to pray before the match, they were very stressed out. They slipped on the banana peel, lost the match, and they blame FTR and what happened at Wembley Stadium. In hindsight, that’s why they refused to shake FTR’s hands. We’ve seen the Young Bucks change a lot. We saw them get really dark during the retirement run of Sting. They’ve only gotten darker and more twisted. That’s why they felt like they should play the tape. It was fascinating to see after the tape played, the reaction Jack Perry got at New Japan.
He got the reaction of a superstar. That is not altogether unexpected and it’s something very interesting, perhaps a side effect of this, Jack Perry already a big star in wrestling, really the way the crowd connected with him in Chicago, that was interesting. It leaves a lot of intriguing going into AEW Dynamite and AEW Dynasty.”
I still don’t think AEW should have shown the video, but I’m not as against it as other people on the Internet are. The only one who comes out of it looking good is Samoa Joe. That being said, if AEW is going to down this Vince McMahan route and steer into the skid, then they definitely need to bring Perry back and milk it for all it’s worth (and I’m not a Perry fan, or YBs).
This is all a swerve because I believe Perry will return at Dynasty and help the Young Bucks defeat FTR since they were aligned with Punk. The Bucks/Okada characters are basically what Perry’s was before suspension, so adding him to The Elite is plausible.