Solomonster Reacts To Ariel Helwani Putting Tony Khan On Blast 

Me: Hey Tony, what time is it? Tony: I can’t talk about it

Ariel Helwani - What is your favorite food? Tony Khan- I can't talk about that.

"I've gotten it from Impact's fan" actually howled at that lmao

"I've gotten it from Impacts fan!" That line got me.

if he didn't trust the interviewer, why agree to do the interview?

The thing that is so frustrating is the head of LEGAL witnessed the whole situation and it’s still taking this long

This is why I listen to you, Jason. Always a fair and balanced perspective. I too can understand Tony saying that he can't talk about the Brawl Out, but he gave Ariel next to nothing to work with. How does discussing Bray Wyatt, unless he contract tampered after he was released, warrant Tony not answering what is presumed to be an innocuous question? Or Paige's wrestling status? So I 100% get Ariel's frustrations. He signed up for an interview with Tony Khan but what he got was an interview with Marshawn Lynch

That was a very balanced assessment. You didn't rush to judgment and actually reviewed all the details. I commend you good sir.

I'm not gonna lie, when Ariel Helwani said Freakszoid in his Twitter, I laughed because it reminded me of the old Kids WB cartoon show, with the catchy theme.

“From impact’s fan” LMFAO

At the end of the day, Tony Khan should expect hard questions to be ask to him especially after the media scrum. Ariel of course isn’t 100% innocent on this but Tony just came off just a bitter enclosed guy

While I do agree that Ariel was a bit out of line in this interview; I think Tony comes off looking obliviously dumb in this cuz why would you even agree to do this interview, if you know you're not gonna talk about anything??🤨 That's like buying a video game and not playing it

Tony “I can’t talk about it” Khan

People need to listen to the whole thing. It’s not just the Brawl. Tony Khan wouldn’t say ANYTHING on a lot of different topics. But yet wanted to use this as a way to shill his product. Ariel could have handled it a lot better afterwards. But I get why he was frustrated.

There were 2 questions that Ariel could have asked to get a semblance of an answer. Without directly bringing up anyone involved in the AEW side of things. Ariel should have asked about player discipline and the way controversial stories are handled in the National Football League and compare it to AEW. Anything remotely controversial happens to any talent in that league it is all over the news. He should have asked about the differences between being a high ranking executive in the NFL and how it compares to be a wrestling promoter. I think the big mistake Ariel made is he tried to tie names to his questions. He should have asked in hypotheticals.

As Impact's Fan...I can catagorically deny ever harassing Solomonster about Impact. I've got the much more time consuming job of writing a 50 page report as to why Alex Shelley should be the one to beat Josh Alexander for the World title

Take a shot Everytime Tony Khan doesn’t want talk about a question

20:30 I don't know if that was a slip up, but it makes it sound like Impact has just one fan lmao

"I've heard it from iMPACT's FAN" That slayed me 🤣

WWE's fans! AEW's fans! Impact's fan. 🤣💀

Tony Khan aka Chief Keef 2013: “My lawyer says ‘don’t talk about dat.’”

"I've got it from Impact's fan." I'm 💀

Tony fell apart because he normally only talks to sympathetic "journalists." Ariel might be a bit tabloid, but he's not an AEW partisan.

Ariel: "did you do a line of blow before this interview?" Tony: "I can't answer that because it won't serve me well"

Ariel Helwani is one of the best reporters out there. A LEGIT reporter that is neutral. This guy asked Triple H how did he feel about getting beat by a AEW. He made Triple H what we already knew. That NXT is developmental. He also asked Shawn Michaels about the current state of NXT. This is a guy that wasn't afraid to ask Drew how he felt about losing in Cardiff.

The funny thing is if he did ask Triple H about Vince and Triple H said he couldn't answer that and Ariel put him on blast, fans would agree with him. But since it's AEW and Tony Khan he is getting criticism lmao.

Ariel didn't question Triple H about Vince McMahon's corruption...I found that situation more interesting

So was I insane to assume that, for all these years, anytime someone did an interview, they would call the person first, agree on topics they'd discuss in great details, topics they would only skim over, and topics they would not mention at all? It can't be that farfetched, because I'm sure at times it's either been implied or outright stated some things were not allowed to be brought up in interviews. I feel both sides are supposed to prepare for the discussion. The best way to do that is to know what's going to be talked about. If you aren't going to talk about a topic at all, it shouldn't be in the interview. And if there's too many of those topics, maybe make it shorter or don't do it at all.

As Impacts only fan you are correct

I think more interviewers should do what he did to put a full stop to Tony’s need to make AEW look like the happiest place on Earth for wrestlers and not answering questions that take away from the illusion he’s trying to cast. He doesn’t act like a leader…he acts like a coward as he never takes the wheel when things get bad, but puts his fingers in his ears and yells “La-la-la!” and pretends everything is okay. It’s what seven year olds do. But when it comes to propagandizing, you can’t shut him up, And I agree with Solomonster about there actually being an investigation. It doesn’t take six weeks to investigate a six minute incident. Either there is no investigation and Tony is being Tony (a coward), hoping people forget this happened and starts bringing everyone back (everyone is serving paid suspensions and Ace Steel still has a job), or the investigation concluded a while back and no one is talking because the AEW locker room has been very tight lipped about airing dirty laundry. They'll trash talk each other, but won't speak to the atmosphere or morale in the day care center known as AEW.

I could've taken the Helwani interview as a one off, but you combine that with Tony basically getting pissed any time Bully would ask a REAL question on Busted Open, it's obvious the guy only wants softballs

With the reveal of Punk having an office job, the first thing I thought of was, "Ahhh, thaaaat's why Cody left". Tony gave Punk more power than we realized, and of course, more money and Cody split.

Comments: *"Impacts Fan"* Me: *"How was your bowel movement last night?"*

After 10 minutes of Tony Khlown's non-responces I would have told him "This is a waste of time and to get the fuck out!"

Calling anyone “stupid” for criticizing Tony Khan illustrates how little integrity wrestling “journalists” possess.

damn, never thought i'd see wwe having better PR than aew/tony khan

Ariel Helwani doesn’t need AEW at all, dude has made a career out of challenging the boss.

I remember the "I'm trying to run a business here" line really confusing me at the time, but yeah that makes more sense now. And also makes the whole situation at All Out even more embarrassing in a way.

Ariel best interviews are those on his channel without BT/WWE stamp of approval that water down everything him and his guest can discuss. The interview with MJF for example was fantastic and i think he is a genuine AEW fan despite working for a company that is embedded with WWE, that's why he was disappointed by Tony Khan lack of willingness to go in depth about where the company is now and the behind the scenes stuff. Tony Khan on his part was probably expecting a softball interview like the one Helwani did with HHH, but that was a complete different setting under the BT umbrella, this one was on his channel and so he had more freedom to ask the tough questions, if Tony Khan didn't know that he proved to be a clueless mark once again

That was 1 hour & 18 minutes I can't get back! I was afraid that the next question was going to be something like this! Ariel: Is your name Tony Khan Tony: I can't answer that. That doesn't serve me well. However, you can tune into Dynamite as our AEW World Champion Jon Moxley defends his title against Hangman Adam Page in his hometown of Cincinnati, OH live on TBS ad we are 2 full hours of non-stop wrestling! What a Joke!

I think Tony was hesitant because of Ariel's working relationship (and obvious fanboy favouritism at times) with WWE, and I think his caution was proven correct by Ariel's unnecessarily combative criticism towards Tony and AEW fans as a whole the following week. Tony was right to not let him in or give him anything exclusive regarding anyone's contract situation.

Ariel is pissy and maybe is justified, but he should have known this was what was gonna happen

Tony is used to giving interviews to schills & Ariel didn't play that game. He asked legitimate questions. Not softballs that were preceded by "I'm a huge fan." "You're a genius" etc

Long story short, Tony Khan is not a good communicator. Nor is he street smart.

Tony answers questions like he’s a murder suspect in a police interrogation

besides "chick magnet" questions, those questions weren't exactly tough ones

Good nuanced take on the situation. I always laugh when some people try to ridicule a "both sides" take because it doesn't fit their own narrative.

dixie Carter would have done a better job then Tony. I could literally answer this without answering the questions.

Even Impact's fan is upset with the product right now. Just ask Bobby Fish

I don't think Tony is a bad dude, maybe just not really good at interviews. An anxiety or speaking disorder maybe.

I see both sides. Tony either should've prepared questions for Ariel to ask or just said "It's a complicated situation, please ask me about that at a better time". I can see the scrum and the Cody questions being brought up because it's what everyone has been talking about. Tony should've anticipated that. What was so bad about the MJF or the Saraya questions? On the other hand, it feels like Ariel tried to go the way of Punk and embarrass Tony and the company. He went out of his way to call the interview not so fun and to say that "if you think AEW is better than WWE at the moment, you're a liar". Why not let people enjoy what they want to enjoy? He just came off as pissy.

This is one of the best takes I've heard on this so far

Solomonster u and Jim Cornette are my favorite wrestling Podcasters

I don't think Ariel should bash people on what they like but I understand what he means. It's hard to like aew at times simply because of their fanbase. I know all of their fans isn't like that and wwe's fanbase isn't perfect but aew fans is insufferable and will attack you with any criticism,stuff like that will also push someone away from aew plus on top of that screw TK because he clearly wanted Ariel to kiss his cheeks and ask him preschool questions like most of the people that ask him questions before he could promote his heart out. If you can't answer simple questions on how you feel about someone like bray Wyatt and etc then DF are you doing interviews for???? I really don't understand what his true motive was if he wasn't going to answer anything just practically for the hell of it

My boy solomonster is back with another one Bay Bay 💯👍💯💯

Impact's 'fan' that was SO dirty I'm dead

Ariel Helwani is a WWE shill! He owes TK an apology. He should know TK can't talk about the Punk and Elite situation because it's still under investigation. When Helwani blasted TK, he won't be interviewing any of the AEW talents anymore.

Freakazoid is a great cartoon

LMAO Impact's "fan", singular

If Punks an exec that flips everyones "evos against an employee" narrative. Does that change that narrative now with them potentially being on the same level?

TK should just not do any of these interviews. VKM rarely did them, I remember him being on Letterman once, it was very unremarkable. He (Khan) simply goes on shows and interviews to promote events and that's it. Even though it was a sucky interview, I don't think TK should answer those kinds of questions, Ariel tried. I also think a lot of matters he was asked about that he really doesn't have an answer,

I want to see Ariel interviewing Solomonster "insert take my money gif"

Ariel was in the right here, those AEW freakazoids on social media are next level bad😂

I’m posting a lot here, but do you think Vince would’ve been an open book? Maybe Tony did his research and didn’t want to give answers that would give those who have interests with other wrestling companies anything.

Was it the best thing to do professionally? Clearly not, but if you look at how Tony handled practically all of that interview, at least the parts of substance, you could understand why it was handled that way by Ariel quite frankly to a degree. The media scrum, and everything associated with it, obviously, professionally speaking, Tony's response was the likely one, so that, I couldn't take issue with. Everything else he declined however, that being Tony, everything else he declined, it was genuinely ridiculous. If anything, that would have triggered my frustrations, had I been an interviewer in general.. .Simply because, there was no need to be that much of an obstructionist in an interview. To the degree of difficulty, that Tony displayed, specifically when he didn't have to, it was a real asinine thing to do. Again, I could understand Ariel's frustrations on some level. For any that may claim otherwise, they are genuinely, just being argumentative, for the sake of it. Again, regarding everything at the beginning of September, that's to be expected, I can live with Tony's position towards all of that. Everything else though, everything else that he was an obstructionist towards in that interview, that was completely unnecessary, simply put. If anything, that's another example, that he just doesn't know what he's doing, he doesn't know what he's doing from a management perspective. He needed to handle things a far better than he did overall, that's just the truth of the matter. A seasoned professional would definitely know that. Since Tony can't handle that part of the job, then he needs to hire someone that can. Simply because, Tony in that capacity, he just doesn't cut it.

Issue I have is he should’ve told him all of that during the interview not after when TK can’t give a rebuttal

“The Media Scrum from Hell” hey, that works.

Solomonster looks like Ruben from "Road Trip"

Ariel didn’t ask the same question 6 different times I watched the interview

I guess Tony Khan found his new catchphrase. ‘Sorry, I can’t talk about that!’

11:48 Trust me, no one wants to talk about my bowel movement from last week...

Here after Tony Khan’s tweet.

Get your 🍿 ready😎

Coming out of the interview I really wanted to know why Tony khan sat looking like a moron letting cm punk go off the way he did and never tried to cut his mic off, or tell punk that's enough and discuss those issues privately. Tony khan has no balls and it 10000% shows

Tony could have at least told him the stuff that he didn't want to talk about before the interview started. It wouldn't have been as awkward.

so from what im hearing is tony went to an interview to not say a fucking thing why even bother going

No one. Absolute no one. Not a single soul. Not even mjf or Bray Wyatt. . . . . . . . Tony: i dont wanna talk about that

No one is going to promote Tony if he doesn't give anything in return. That's how media works. Shrug.

20:32 savage 😆 🤣 😂

WHERE ARE THE EVP’S? 😂

He put him on blast !?? What!?? Really!?? 😂

Helwani was 100% right to feel frustrated with TK. TK can talk about the things he was asked about. Especially Cody Rhodes. TK just likes to go into filibuster mode and just promote coming events. He will not answer anything that is even slightly off from a company-friendly question. It made him look weak and he came off as insecure or as if he is hiding something or just scared... or all of the above. I don't blame Helwani one bit for being frustrated. TK wants to have his face out there but just for mark out ball washings and promotion. If he's not going to answer the real questions then he shouldn't be doing all these podcast appearances.

I mean you really think Tony is going to divulge that kind of information Ariel Whoever you are? Though, maybe the smart thing for Tony to do is address that he should have acted sooner, and not allow the media scrum to go as far as it did, also say that they’re trying to address it & find a solution for all parties while trying to keep the show going and morale up with the talent and staff and make sure something like this never happens again. But yeah Solomonster I agree with your assessment. Tony, hell AEW as a whole needs media coaching.

Ariel Helwani- You have a big Roster with amazing Talent. How come you like Omega, young bucks,Sammy, and Cm punk better than the rest of the Roster. Tony Khan- I Don't want to talk about it

The questions about Saraya, MJF, Bray, etc, sure... Tony could've been more open. But, realistically, the details of something happening behind the scenes aren't owed to anyone, Helwani included. I get it, we're all used to being able to look something up and instantly getting the info we're looking for, so it's easy to act entitled. But, something like the incident at All Out, it has nothing to do with what's being presented to fans on screen, so we're not owed that information.

You can’t let punk go. I’d let the bucks go if party has to. The bucks have had all their “dream matches” they haven’t made any of the other tag teams.

Booker of the Year everybody!

The difference between Tony's interview and Triple H's says a lot

If Punk has some kinda authority backstage, that makes his fight with the Elite even more pathetic if he was the one to throw the first punch.

For Ariel for publicly to say that says something. Cause I listen to Ariel twice a week on the mma hour for YEARS being an mma fan. What does Ariel care. He’s got WWE sweet on him. BT sports and all. That’s just Ariel’s sidepiece for fun.

I agree with most things Solomonsrers says. But AEW is still the far better product imo. WWE has improved doesn't mean it has passed AEW in quality. AEW on the regular has great matches and the stories can be good too. They've had better times specifically Jul 21-Mar 22. But I feel like a lot of people's judgement of AEW has been clouded by the honeymoon period in WWE plus all the recent drama in AEW.

While I consider myself a Tony Khan supporter, I'm on Team Helwani as far as this issue is concerned. Did Helwani burn a bridge? Probably not and I say that because I believe Helwani has incurred enough credentials to be a part of the conversation anytime one of the big two promotions has something to announce to the public. He'll be there if that is where he desires to be. It's not as if he's come down in the last shower. Tony Khan is evasive. He is very coy regarding anything on the business end regarding AEW which is his right but if you are Helwani, you have to be asking yourself if indeed the issue at hand is the burning of bridges...what do I truly have to lose here? This guy isn't giving me anything of consequence here and isn't likely to change his modus operandi in the future. It's a zero-sum game. If I lose access to Tony Khan (which isn't likely to happen) well it isn't as if I'm losing access to someone who is going to give me anything of value in terms of what I do for a living anyway.

Is ariel a real wrestling fan or is this just a job that he gets info before an interview?

I mean he really should have known Tony wasn't gonna give him a damn thing

To compare him not asking about the Vince situation to his questioning of TK is frankly laughable. There apple's and oranges Trips has nothing to do with the Vince situation in anyway he didn't see it happen wasn't involved and didn't force Vince out of his position. What are u expecting him to say on it it was consensual sex between adults who all agreed to sign NDAs and no wrong doing has been found as of yet. Tony however is involved on every issue that ariel put to him and I thought he didn't go easy on triple h he asked about resigning Bray which you never heard Vince in interviews talk about wrestlers outside the WWE

Tony is stone walling on absolutely l everything while on the other side HHH is practically is an open book in his interviews. Shows how different these guys pro wrestling philosophies are 😏

False there is no impact fan😂

I have no idea who this Ariel guy is.

No no no tony should lose views from the show for this because of the answers that he gave. It will teach him next time that when your in an interview you TALK AND ANSWER THE DAMN QUESTIONS. But if you can’t talk about anything then don’t do the interview very simple

If you take a sit down interview you agree to answer questions if you want to leave off one or 2 topics for personal or legal reasons ok. But if you won't talk about anything that is of interest then you shouldn't have taken the interview now you don't look good