Claim made that Tony Khan would not respond to Chris Jericho’s messages for around two weeks
Former AEW star Jake Hager made an appearance on Sportskeeda.com’s WrestleBinge podcast and here are the highlights…
Working with AEW President Tony Khan: “I was fortunate enough to have a career—I mean, I was 17 years long almost on TV, non-stop. So, very blessed to have that. But to get to the end of the career and to have someone like Tony Khan, who’s been in this business a cup of coffee and doesn’t really know… he can’t make himself a sandwich, let alone write a storyline that will last. He could spend a lot of money and make a big debut and make a lot of fireworks, but in the end, he’s in charge. And we’re supposed to trust him to make storylines that make our careers.”
If Khan is the only booker in AEW: “Absolutely. There’s yes-men that help him write his storylines, but there’s no one there that can tell him ‘no.'”
Cody Rhodes’ involvement in the creative process: “I think everything changed after he left, because he was involved with it. After that, it just kind of became a free-for-all. The Young Bucks and Kenny [Omega] still had a big say in what they were doing. Chris [Jericho] obviously still had a big say in what he was doing. But even Chris would tell me that Tony would not respond to his messages for like two weeks. So it became a point where either AEW is important, or it’s not. And it just seemed like it was not to him, because they stopped doing production meetings. They stopped doing anything to make the show timely. We would be waiting around until like 5:00 p.m. to find out what we were doing that day. And what live television show does that? Only one with money behind it.”