AEW President Tony Khan Claims Twitter Bots Are Targeting AEW

That’s a theory. The rise of AEW has done a lot of great things for the wrestling industry, but it has also brought back some nostalgia. For the first time in a very good while, there is another major wrestling promotion to compete with WWE. This has caused many fans to take sides between the two, but now some of them are being accused of being a bit less than genuine in their fandom.

AEW President Tony Khan has sent out a series of tweets, stating that an independent study has found that “much” of the anti-AEW online community is made up of bots rather than actual people. Khan said that someone is running a fleet of accounts which do nothing but retweet negative statements about AEW. Khan did not cite any data or say who conducted the study.

An independent study has confirmed that much of the staunch anti-AEW online community aren’t real individuals, it’s a staff running thousands of accounts + an army of bots to signal boost them. Look closely, these aren’t real people. Who’d pay for such a *wildly* expensive thing?

— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) April 8, 2022

Ever wonder why so much of the activity of these accounts is retweets and replies? Like who actually has 80% of their activity as straight up retweets?

— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) April 8, 2022

Research this one yourselves. You internet detectives thrive in these situations.

Speaking of wild things:

You won’t want to miss@JonMoxley vs. @WheelerYuta on #AEWRampage
@ 10pm ET/9pm CT on @tntdrama TONIGHT!

— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) April 8, 2022

Their boiler room staff is going to be working overtime on a Friday, and I love it!

— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) April 8, 2022

Opinion: Let’s say what Khan says is true. How exactly does this help AEW? It doesn’t bring them any new fans and is really just a way to show that people who aren’t happy with them aren’t real. I’m not sure why Khan felt the need to talk about this, especially without citing anything as proof of what he is saying. AEW has some issues it needs to deal with and this isn’t a way to fix those problems.

What do you think of Khan’s statements? What is AEW’s biggest problem? Let us know in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen over 60,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 6,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his- Amazon author page with 30 wrestling books

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