10 Best Times AEW Threw Shade At WWE

8. Tony Khan Runs Wild On Twitter

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2019 was a fascinating, transformative and relentlessly batsh*t year for professional wrestling, and much of that was distilled on one very petty, bonkers night in November.

CM Punk lit the fuse upon hyping his debut appearance on WWE Backstage. He tagged Khan in a tweet that mentioned "no one is safe" from his candid insights. Khan took the bait - those informal negotiations did not go well, it would seem - and responded "No one is safe? Sounds like a plane full of wrestlers in Saudi Arabia!"

He alluded to the forgotten story that the Kingdom may have made it difficult - and rather scary - for the roster to leave, since Vince McMahon may have cut off the Crown Jewel feed to punish a late payment. The truth may never come out, but "mechanical issues" is a more convincing tag team name for Nia Jax and Tamina than a cover story. Sorry, but it is quite funny mocking WWE.

Randy Orton, sh*t-stirrer du jour, tried to step in by referencing the Khan family's own rumoured corruption. He should have actually Googled it; it was a non-story, and Khan fired back by quite accurately blasting Orton for his use of the N-word. This was the "she's not gonna shag you mate" of Wrestling Twitter beef roasts.

There was no coming back from it.

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