Tony Khan Addresses Criticism Of Shane Taylor's AEW Debut

All Elite Wrestling have received some criticism in recent days following the debut of Shane Taylor on the December 2 edition of Rampage that saw Taylor confront his former Pretty Boy Killers tag team partner Keith Lee. Taylor challenged Lee to a tag team match at Final Battle that will see Swerve in our Glory square off with Taylor and JD Griffey.

Some didn't think AEW provided enough context for Taylor's debut, though, and Tony Khan has addressed the criticism during an appearance on the Battleground podcast.

"There are fans who have never seen Shane Taylor before, and that's okay. You get introduced to new faces all the time. When I was a young wrestling fan, that was one of the things I liked about WCW Nitro. I think it would be very ironic now that the same promoter [Eric Bischoff] would tell you, you don't want to see these faces or introduce new people on TV because they were the ones who did that. A lot of times these new faces or read in a magazine, I'd never seen before and they would just walk out and wrestle on Nitro like it was perfectly natural and I thought it was the coolest thing," Khan said.

"I guess that's not acceptable anymore even though its much much easier to access information on the internet than it was in 1996. You saw wrestlers coming in from all promotions in the 90s on Nitro. Wrestlers coming to TBS or TNT is nothing new. People complaining about it ad nauseam on the internet is certainly new. At the end of the day, you want to listen to what the fans are saying. Overall, there has been a positive reception to a lot of international wrestlers coming to AEW."

H/T to Fightful