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00:00 There's been more Twitter drama that will make you question if any adults are in the

00:04 room, AEW have had a backstage overhaul, and WWE just saw a shock title change.

00:11 I'm Luke Owen and this is the WrestleTalk News.

00:20 Like the red hot chilli peppers in 1995, it's been one hot minute since I was last behind

00:25 this desk reading from this teleprompter about wrestling news to you fine folk.

00:29 A lot of craziness has happened since then.

00:31 A lot of OG staffers have left AEW as the company moves into a new era, Hiroshi Tanahashi

00:37 was made President of New Japan - speaking of which, Dolph Ziggler and Matt Riddle have

00:42 both made deals with New Japan - and The Rock returned to WWE, seemingly to put a stop to

00:48 Cody Rhodes' story.

00:50 But I'm not here to talk about any of that sort of news.

00:54 No, because the news that has gotten the wrestling world chattering today is…

00:58 Grown men arguing on Twitter about wins and losses.

01:02 Happy New Year to me, I guess.

01:05 To give you some context around all of this for those of you who have been blissfully

01:08 under rocks for the last 48 hours, on Monday's episode of Raw - a very good show it must

01:12 be said - one of the more baffling moments was when Seth Rollins started a mini-feud

01:17 with new challenger for the World Heavyweight Championship Jinder Mahal.

01:22 This will lead to a match next week between the two for the title, and it feels like a

01:25 bit of filler as we head into Rumble season.

01:28 Just something for Seth to do while all of the other top names are busy doing Rumble

01:33 things.

01:34 The problem is, as many pointed out, is that Jinder Mahal doesn't exactly feel like a

01:38 top title fighter - given that he's only been on TV a handful of times in the last

01:43 year or so as a manager, got chumpetised by The Rock the week previous where the joke

01:48 was, "wasn't it silly, this man was once WWE Champion" and he last won a match on

01:53 Raw or Smackdown on July 3rd, 2022.

01:59 That was 556 days ago.

02:02 To give it even more context, the last time Jinder Mahal won a match on Raw or Smackdown,

02:09 Vince McMahon was still booking the show.

02:12 It did feel like an odd choice, Dan Layton and I discussed it at length on the WrestleTalk

02:16 podcast yesterday, but the reaction to it was more muted than one would expect - especially

02:21 considering that, you know, we all remember how bad of a time this was.

02:26 No one was truly angry online about the idea of Jinder Mahal getting a world title shot,

02:32 even though it is a world title shot that makes little logical sense.

02:36 We didn't get any angry ultra chats on the WrestleTalk podcast, no one was really mad

02:41 about it in the live chat, if anything everyone was quite thrilled about it.

02:44 But one man who did get his heckles up about it was AEW CEO Tony Khan.

02:50 And the reason Khan got his knickers in a twist is that just a few days prior, he came

02:54 under fire for booking something similar.

02:57 On Saturday's edition of AEW Collision, Hook laid out a challenge for new world champion

03:02 Samoa Joe, which prompted a slew of social media backlash against All Elite Wrestling

03:06 for booking a lower card guy like Hook against a top guy like Samoa Joe.

03:11 We did get a few mildly angry ultra chats on the WrestleTalk podcast, and we had way

03:16 more mad about it in the live chats.

03:18 To be fair, we did a poll where 55% were excited about the idea of Hook challenging Joe, and

03:22 35% were on the fence.

03:25 So with all of that context is why Tony Khan decided to have a total meltdown on Twitter.

03:30 And now, AEW and WWE wrestlers, as well as other wrestling media, are all getting involved.

03:39 It all started with a tweet from Khan, who wrote, "A double standard.

03:43 Hook 28-1 career record on winning street calls out the champ a logical challenge.

03:48 #XboxOnlineOutrage Jinder has lost every single match he's in for the past year immediately

03:54 gets title shot where is the rage?"

03:58 That feels like it should be the end of it, but Tony went looking for more.

04:01 Earlier in the day, Raj Giri had posted what he felt was a defence of Jinder vs. Seth by

04:07 tweeting that they "once had a match in NXT".

04:10 A compelling defence there, Raj.

04:12 To which USA Network, the home of WWE Raw, jokingly replied, "what was the cage match

04:18 rating?"

04:19 Well let me tell you, USA Network social media manager, it was… let me just find it for

04:24 you here… 6.27.

04:26 Which is not a great result, let's be honest.

04:30 This is, of course, a shot at those who value in-ring wrestling over soap opera storytelling,

04:35 as apparently you can only like either in-ring work or storytelling in wrestling, and not

04:42 some weird combination of the two.

04:44 TK reposted this tweet arguing, "A moral victory for USA is one more win than their

04:49 world title challenger Jinder Mahal has had in the past 364 days because it's been literally

04:54 a full year since he won a match.

04:57 You really put AEW in our place getting Jinder Mahal in a big match on your TV show.

05:02 Do it more often."

05:03 This is where other people started to get involved.

05:07 Because apart from either liking in-ring work or storytelling, you also have to fall into

05:11 one of two camps.

05:13 Wins and losses matter, or wins and losses don't matter.

05:17 For decades, WWE has pushed the narrative that wins and losses don't matter.

05:21 You can lose a bunch of matches and it doesn't affect the wrestler or the storylines you're

05:26 doing on TV.

05:27 When AEW launched in 2019, they wanted to do the opposite, even implementing a ranking

05:31 system that was based on wins and losses to determine who gets title shots.

05:35 This was dropped a few years later when it became apparent that it was difficult to keep

05:38 up and fans complained online that it never made much sense.

05:42 This was Jonathan Coachman's point, as he tweeted in response to TK, "We also used

05:46 to get amused at fans who counted wins like wrestlers earned them.

05:50 Hell, if Vince wanted, I could have been world champion.

05:53 But the storyline didn't support it.

05:55 It's about the story, clearly, not wins in a predetermined space.

05:59 Thought a boss would understand that."

06:01 This prompted a reply from a wrestling fan by the name of Mickey, who pointed out that

06:05 Tony Khan did the same thing recently with Abaddon - arguing they were given a title

06:10 shot despite being off TV for over a year.

06:13 And here, like clockwork, is where Eric Bischoff enters our story.

06:17 He'd already reposted Khan's original tweet with a clown emoji and then - clearly

06:21 looking for things to argue about on Twitter - reposted a tweet he was not tagged in saying,

06:25 "Hey @TK, is this true or is it a bot?"

06:29 Of course, it's not true.

06:31 Mickey ignored the fact that Abaddon was off TV due to injury, and when they came back

06:35 won a number one contenders match for the title shot - which is what Tony Khan replied

06:39 with.

06:40 It's always funny when Bischoff gets involved in AEW Twitter drama as one of the arguments

06:44 against TK's Twitter behaviour is that it isn't befitting of a wrestling promoter

06:49 to act this way on social media.

06:51 After all, Vince McMahon never did this when he was in charge, and Triple H isn't doing

06:55 it either.

06:56 No, instead they did it on TV during the Monday Night War - stopping their own programming

07:01 to take shots at the competition, with skits like Billionaire Ted or driving a truck to

07:06 the opposition show to "invade" and boast about how few people were attending it.

07:11 Eric Bischoff also did it himself on WCW television, once challenging Vince McMahon to shop for

07:17 a PPV for a wrestling match in an effort to boost the buy rates and bump their TV ratings.

07:22 He read out the results of taped WWE shows on his show.

07:28 This is what wrestling promoters did in the days before social media.

07:32 Social media just changed the promoting game.

07:35 And it's not exclusive to wrestling.

07:36 Of course Pepsi ran anti-Coca-Cola campaigns, Burger King ran anti-McDonald's campaigns.

07:42 When you're in second place, you punch up to first.

07:45 But if you're in first, you don't acknowledge second.

07:49 When Eyebill of WrestlePuris pointed out the hypocrisy of Bischoff's tweets, Eric said

07:53 that it wasn't the same deal as when he did it, he was head to head with WWE and without

07:58 dirt sheets.

07:59 I'm not sure what point he's making either.

08:02 Something about Dave Meltzer being on the payroll or something equally idiotic.

08:05 And then wrestlers - including Jinder Mahal - got involved.

08:09 Corey Graves tweeted in support of Mahal simply saying "Jinder Rules" which apparently

08:13 popped Bully Ray.

08:15 Dax Harwood seemingly in response tweeted "Hook Rules" and Anthony Bowens also tweeted

08:19 in support of Hook.

08:21 Dax also replied to Bischoff pointing out the hypocrisy of his criticisms.

08:24 Jinder Mahal himself had the best tweet in all of this however, simply posting "Who

08:29 the f*** is Hook?"

08:30 A lot of this does feel like wrestlers having fun, especially with Dax tweeting in all caps

08:35 "WRESTLING IS BACK BABY LET'S F***ING GO!

08:38 @AEWWRESTLERS ACTING UP ON TWITTER BETTER CALL DANIELSON!"

08:41 But one guy who didn't seem to be taking it in all good fun was NXT's Edris NFA,

08:46 who replied to Tony's original tweet asking him to "shut the f*** up".

08:50 Both Jinder and Edifay deleted their tweets.

08:53 So what did we learn from all of this?

08:56 Well apart from the usual lesson that Twitter is an awful place, nothing is achieved in

08:59 all of this and nothing will be learned.

09:01 I actually agree with Tony, Jinder getting a title shot with no heating up isn't great

09:05 booking and it's not comparable to Hook getting a title shot.

09:08 But he's not changing any minds either.

09:10 In this bizarre tribalistic timeline we've found ourselves in, if you have planted your

09:14 flag in WWE's ground, you're not going to read Tony's tweets and think "huh,

09:18 maybe he's right".

09:19 But I'm not going to watch WWE next week and I'm going to watch Dynamite instead.

09:24 Similarly, his tweets aren't appealing to the mainstream casual fan because they're

09:28 not getting involved or seeking out Twitter drama.

09:31 Only established wrestling fans are, and as we've discussed, they've already made

09:35 up their minds.

09:36 It's not like WWE Gareth is going to be on the Dynamite train.

09:40 It's not going to change Eric's mind either as he'll just make a tweet that he doesn't

09:43 like his hair.

09:44 And if you point out that wrestling promoters have always done this, it was just on TV and

09:48 not on social media, that doesn't change any minds either.

09:51 So what did we learn?

09:53 Probably nothing because I also made that point.

09:55 But you know what, sticking with AEW for a moment, and as I mentioned at the top of this

09:59 video, there has been some backstage overhauls within the company over the last few weeks

10:03 and months.

10:04 QT Marshall announced that he would be leaving the company so he can focus on being a full

10:07 time wrestler.

10:08 Their live events and touring Vice President Raphael Murphy also stepped down, as did the

10:13 head of merchandising Dana Macy, who is also the wife of Matt Jackson of The Young Bucks.

10:18 And in the first hire since they all stepped away, AEW brought in WWE's former Regional

10:24 Director of Live Events, Kosher Irby, to be the company's new COO.

10:29 Always getting the ex-WWE guys, why can't you build your own stars?

10:32 Fightful's Lake reported that the news was a "possible COO role" and that was later

10:37 confirmed by Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer.

10:40 Sean Ross Alper Fightful also noted that it was an "important internal hire".

10:44 And finally last night's NXT saw a shock title change, as Dragon Lee was able to get

10:48 his visa situation handled to defend the NXT North American Championship against Lexus

10:53 King, the former Brian Pillman Jr. in AEW.

10:55 Always getting the ex-AEW guys, why can't you build your own stars?

11:00 That was sarcasm.

11:01 Following a successful championship defence, Lee was confronted by Oba Femi, who cashed

11:05 in his Breakout Tournament win to get a shot at Dragon Lee for the title, which he then

11:10 won just over a minute later.

11:12 Elsewhere on the show, the teams of Nathan Frazier and Axiom and Baron Corbin and Braun

11:16 Breaker advanced in the Dusty Classic, Cora Jade beat Gigi Dolan, The Family retained

11:20 their tag titles over OTM and Blair Davenport beat Nikita Lyons after attacking her before

11:26 the show.

11:27 Live!

11:28 Valkyrie also announced that a 20-woman battle royal will take place to crown a new number

11:31 one contender, which will become a Fatal 4-Way when the last four women remain.

11:35 TNA announced their return and this extra stip gets added on to another stip.

11:39 Coincidence?

11:40 I think not.

11:41 Look, we have been overwhelmed by the love and support the latest episode of TLC has

11:46 had where we countdown our worst entrance themes.

11:49 My list is impeccable, so go give it a watch if you haven't already.

11:53 It's on screen right now.

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