{"id":209090,"date":"2025-12-21T19:25:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=209090"},"modified":"2025-12-21T19:25:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T01:25:20","slug":"tony-khan-says-first-episode-of-dynamite-was-supposed-to-happen-at-msg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2025\/12\/21\/tony-khan-says-first-episode-of-dynamite-was-supposed-to-happen-at-msg\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Khan says first episode of Dynamite was supposed to happen at MSG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3152821340\" 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>Video of AEW president Tony Khan <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Smokeybear45_\/status\/2002580936601579877?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">addressing the crowd<\/a> at the AEW Dynamite tapings at Hammerstein Ballroom for Dec. 24 last night has surfaced on multiple social media accounts. As Khan was talking to the fans, he responded to some fans chanting MSG. Khan revealed to the fans that the first episode of AEW was originally set to tale place at MSG, but it got cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s an interesting idea. You know, for a long time, I\u2019ll be honest. They didn\u2019t want me there, you know that? Because the first episode of Dynamite was originally going to be there and they called me and offered me the date,&#8221; said Khan. &#8220;They said, \u2018Would you like to do the first episode of Dynamite here?\u2019 The people who called me don\u2019t work there anymore. It was over six years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018Yeah, I really would. It would be great&#8217; and they called me a couple of months later\u00a0 and they said, \u2018We don\u2019t want you anymore. We don\u2019t want you to do the first Dynamite here because it would really upset somebody.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The fans booed when Khan finished speaking and then started a &#8220;f&#8212; the Fed&#8221; chant. Khan told the fans live that he told MSG officials he felt like Charlie Brown in &#8220;Peanuts&#8221; when Lucy pulls the football away.<\/p>\n<p>The first episode of Dynamite took place at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 2, 2019. The show was headlined by Chris Jericho &amp; Santana &amp; Ortiz vs. The Young Bucks &amp; Kenny Omega. In addition to Dynamite, AEW eventually added additional programming including Rampage, which has since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/fannation\/wrestling\/fans-report-tony-khan-confirms-the-end-of-aew-rampage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">been canceled<\/a>, airing primarily on TNT on Friday and Collision episodes that air on Saturday on TNT.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-624930490\"><div id=\"pwtor-89368612\"><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>Video of AEW president Tony Khan addressing the crowd at the AEW Dynamite tapings at Hammerstein Ballroom for Dec. 24 last night has surfaced on multiple social media accounts. As Khan was talking to the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2025\/12\/21\/tony-khan-says-first-episode-of-dynamite-was-supposed-to-happen-at-msg\/\" title=\"Tony Khan says first episode of Dynamite was supposed to happen at MSG\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":86965,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew-news","category-prowrestlingnews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/10\/KhanTony_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209090","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209091,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209090\/revisions\/209091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}