10 Wrestlers Tony Khan Banned From AEW

10. Hulk Hogan

To Tony Khan's message board poster brain being used for good back in 2020, when a needlessly bigoted and contentious tweet from Hulk Hogan's ex-wife Linda threatened to stir up yet more ugly discourse on the bird app before the AEW president got across the bullsh*t with a hard truth.

Khan had never explicitly mentioned why 'The Hulkster' wasn't welcome in All Elite Wrestling before this moment, but he truthfully never even needed to. Hogan's 2019 WWE return was handled in such a way to purposely try and swerve obvious criticism about his reintroduction following revelations about using racist language years earlier. He'd lost his Hall Of Fame spot as well as other WWE perks before the door was left ajar when Vince McMahon et al clearly believed the dust had settled.

Not so on Dynamite or Rampage, and long may that continue. Even without the ethical concerns, AEW fundamentally existed to be WWE's prominant alternative, not a place that fostered one of its biggest ever stars.