10 Worst Moments In AEW History
2. Tony Khan’s General Fecklessness
Khan, a great booker when he asserts control, is too often guilty of just letting people do sh*t - and what’s worse is that he knows in his bones that it is sh*t.
He let Matt Hardy debut under his ‘BROKEN’ persona in March 2020 and, after hipster critics were aghast at the teleportation stuff, almost immediately regretted it. And yet, by 2023, Khan had forgotten what the podcasters said because Hardy was doing cinematic matches in which the Hardy Compound magically turned into nighttime. Presumably, Hardy got in Khan’s ear. Khan is at once the easily persuaded star-struck fan and an old message boarder who wants to be liked by the “sickos”.
That’s how he arrives at booking the Continental Classic and approving hacking angles on the same episode of Dynamite.
That’s how Dax Harwood, by being placated with endless long matches, cooled off so much since 2022.
That’s how the sports league is too often polluted with supernatural hokum.
Matt Hardy generally was allowed to do any awld sh*te for the longest time, doing his level best to drag down AEW’s invincible streak of 2021.
It’s not just Hardy. Khan will let Chris Jericho do what Chris Jericho wants to do. Khan will also wait until an untenable situation erupts before even approaching doling out some punishment.
On the subject of which…