How Vince McMahon's Biggest Nightmare Hid In Plain Sight
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.
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
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.
Michael is a writer, editor, podcaster and presenter for WhatCulture Wrestling, and has been with the organisation for nearly 10 years. He primarily produces written, audio and video content on WWE and AEW, but also provides knowledge and insights on all aspects of the wrestling industry thanks to a passion for it dating back over 35 years. As one third of "The Dadley Boyz" Michael has contributed to the huge rise in popularity of the WhatCulture Wrestling Podcast and its accompanying YouTube channel, earning it top spot in the UK's wrestling podcast charts with well over 62,000,000 total downloads. Within the podcasting space, he also co-hosts Benno & Hamflett, In Your House! and Podcast Horseman: The BoJack Horseman Podcast. He has been featured as a wrestling analyst for the Tampa Bay Times, Fightful, POST Wrestling, GRAPPL, GCP, Poisonrana and Sports Guys Talking Wrestling, and has covered milestone events in New York, Dallas, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, London and Cardiff. Michael's background in media stretches beyond wrestling coverage, with a degree in Journalism from the University Of Sunderland (2:1) and a series of published articles in sports, music and culture magazines The Crack, A Love Supreme and Pilot. When not offering his voice up for daily wrestling podcasts, he can be found losing it singing far too loud watching his favourite bands play live. Follow him on X/Twitter - @MichaelHamflett
