5 times Tony Khan fired shots at WWE 

#4 A declaration of war

When WWE announced a super-sized edition of SmackDown for October 15 to compete with Rampage, Khan welcomed the opportunity to go head-to-head with their "A show."

"I saw you’re doing a half hour head-to-head with us. I can’t wait to finally beat your main show head-to-head. It’s been a long time coming. See you next Friday for #AEWRampage on @AEWonTNT!" tweeted Tony Khan.

Rampage eventually did defeat SmackDown in the 18-49 demographic during the 30-minute head-to-head.

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#3 Tony Khan's thoughts on WWE revamping NXT

During an interview with Ariel Helwani, Nick Khan stated that WWE was looking to revamp their developmental system, which led to the birth of NXT 2.0. He emphasized that WWE was looking for other sources of talent than the independents.

The AEW owner took exception to these remarks.

"Professional wrestling is an art form. You don’t create great artists by training them all to paint by numbers in the same way," said Tony Khan.

While it's easy to criticize them, WWE adopted a similar approach to developmental in OVW - a system that gave them Brock Lesnar, John Cena, Randy Orton, and Batista.