{"id":143441,"date":"2022-07-24T09:13:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T14:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=143441"},"modified":"2022-07-24T09:13:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T14:13:16","slug":"tony-khan-comments-on-vince-mcmahon-retirement-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/07\/24\/tony-khan-comments-on-vince-mcmahon-retirement-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Khan comments on Vince McMahon retirement tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-256022201\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Tony Khan said during the post-show ROH Death Before Dishonor media scrum on Saturday night that his tweet about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/07\/22\/vince-mcmahon-internal-memo-on-retirement-revealed\/\">Vince McMahon retiring<\/a> and he now being the longest tenured CEO in professional wrestling was simply an avenue to promote AEW Rampage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was referencing that AEW Rampage was on and just the fact that of the big major companies, who I would consider \u2018The big three,\u2019 now I am the longest tenured CEO of course,\u201d Khan said of the tweet. \u201cI think if you consider pro wrestling, it\u2019s a fair statement. I just thought it\u2019s a factual statement, a note to promote Rampage but that\u2019s all it was. I can\u2019t say anything else about it. Obviously, I hopefully got some eyeballs on Rampage and I really care about Rampage a lot. On a Friday, sometimes I will try to promote Rampage in fun ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thanks to you wrestling fans and your great support of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEW?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AEW<\/a>, I\u2019m grateful to now be the longest-tenured CEO in pro wrestling.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you very much to every single person who watches <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEWonTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AEWonTV<\/a>! <\/p>\n<p>See you for Friday Night <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AEWRampage?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AEWRampage<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tntdrama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TNTdrama<\/a><br \/>@ 10pm ET\/9pm CT\/10pm PT<br \/>*TONIGHT*!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TonyKhan\/status\/1550578379543437314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On Friday afternoon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/07\/22\/vince-mcmahon-announces-he-is-retiring-from-wweamidst-sexual-impropriety-allegations-making-headlines-cites-his-age-as-reason-for-retirement\/\">McMahon announced that he was retiring<\/a> from his roles in WWE. Khan responded soon after with a tweet that said, &#8220;Thanks to you wrestling fans and your great support of AEW, I&#8217;m grateful to now be the longest-tenured CEO in pro wrestling. Thank you very much to every single person who watches AEW.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Khan captained the second ROH PPV event under his ownership, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/07\/23\/leclairs-roh-death-before-dishonor-2022-report-detailed-coverage-of-ftr-vs-briscoes-gresham-vs-castagnoli-joe-vs-lethal-more\/\">Death Before Dishonor<\/a>, on Saturday night. On the show, Claudio Castagnoli became ROH World Champion and FTR defeated The Briscoes in a two out of three falls match to retain their ROH World Tag Team Championships.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH-UP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/07\/24\/new-roh-world-champion-crowned-at-death-before-dishonor\/\">New ROH World Champion crowned at Death Before Dishonor<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1289641143\"><div id=\"pwtor-3912811722\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Tony Khan said during the post-show ROH Death Before Dishonor media scrum on Saturday night that his tweet about Vince McMahon retiring and he now being the longest tenured CEO in professional wrestling was simply <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/07\/24\/tony-khan-comments-on-vince-mcmahon-retirement-tweet\/\" title=\"Tony Khan comments on Vince McMahon retirement tweet\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":80480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6163,2,5,3],"tags":[6121,6118,184,71],"class_list":["post-143441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew-news","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_roh","category-news_wwe","tag-aew","tag-tony-khan","tag-vince-mcmahon","tag-wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/05\/KhanTony_RubinJay_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143442,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143441\/revisions\/143442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}