10 Best Wrestling Tweets You Must Read (Before Twitter Dies)
6. Tony Khan Gets Salty
— Tweet
Tony Khan is an old-school message board poster who simply cannot resist firing off a reply, whether it's a sensible idea or not.
He lives for that life. He's just wired that way. When antagonised, he can't do that which is expected of an obscenely rich corporate professional and not respond. He's a poster.
Always was, always be.
Then again, obscenely rich corporate professionals don't really exist in the wrestling sphere. Vince McMahon only masqueraded as such a figure, and he couldn't let things lie, either. The man wrote a letter to Ted Turner requesting that he explained the widespread use of blading on television a couple of years before his WWF more closely resembled a horror movie heavy on prosthetic effects than a wrestling league. And Kane was still one of the least scary things about it.
It still wasn't consistent with that specific posting mentality, though. It was a long and drawn-out campaign. It wasn't an impulsive and possibly regrettable moment facilitated by the nearby proximity of the internet.
This tweet was in response to a very cheeky, no-f*cks-given CM Punk post, declaring that "no one [was] safe" from his, erm, milquetoast analysis on WWE Backstage. Khan replied and buried WWE's gross relationship with the Saudi Arabian government.
Childish, ill-advised but very funny, Khan endeared himself further to his base here with his petulance.