How Vince McMahon's Biggest Nightmare Hid In Plain Sight

By Michael Hamflett /

AEW/WWE

Tony Khan's Twitter presence provides an intriguing new wrinkle to what we all thought we might have once known about wrestling's top power players.

Some of it is extremely familiar. Khan is a marketeer for the various sporting franchises he oversees, he makes sure to say "I" when it's good news and "we" when it's bad, and dips in an out of other discussions in a way that shrewdly humanises him to the consumers of his various products.

The rest of it though, not so much. Thanks to the uniqueness of the platform and all it provides, wrestling fans can read so much more into the minds of the man currently producing the most critically acclaimed product in North America. And how it ever came to be in the first place.

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Such as this absolute gem in 2012, that would come to mean everything nearly a decade later.

@parrasteve @jagsfanmjt Shelton's great, but I enjoy ROH shows far less since Punk & especially Danielson left. Losing Claudio will hurt too

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This is cute more than it is foreboding, but try telling Vince McMahon that if Raw's demographics and viewership are under the gun in a year's time.

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