Jonathan Coachman joins the Tony Khan Twitter war
Tony Khan addressed Jinder Mahal getting a world title match on WWE RAW and brought up how Mahal hasn’t won a televised match in a year. Via Twitter/X, former WWE personality/announcer Jonathan Coachman issued a response to Khan…
“We also used to get amused at fans who counted wins like wrestlers ‘earned’ them. Hell if Vince wanted I could have been world champion. But the storyline didn’t support it. It’s about the story clearly not wins in a predetermined space. Thought a boss would understand that. 🤷🏾♂️”
Coachaman provided additional comments in response to fans…
“Vince always taught us the audience dictates the matches and who wins. We always had babyfaces win the main event at house shows. Once I became a heel I would ring announce. Allows different endings and sometimes heels would win and the babyfaces would beat me up and everyone goes home happy. The audience determines everything in the wrestling business. Wins and losses are in material.”
“Think like this. Last week Triple H advertised former wwe champion at Raw1. Jinder came out people booed. Then the Rock. The pop was huge. Bigger than if it was just the rock. We did same type of segment with me, Eugene, and Rock and San Diego. So before people lose it over a match with Jinder let your creative minds wonder of what could come OUT OF IT. That’s why there is a writing team. When it hits it’s gold.”
“Vince always taught us the audience dictates the matches and who wins.”
That was until wrestlers like Matt Cardona got over organically and Vince didn’t like it. If Coach’s words bore any truth, Cena would have done a ton of losing. I guess Coach is angling for another run in WWE.
That’s the same rehearsed and repeated lines but it fails to take into consideration how by broadcasting live to the entire world you can’t still apply small town carny logic to having to respond to what the live crowd wants.
When large chunks of the audience are never stepping foot in your arena, you do sometimes have to think about what the larger audience wants more than what the live crowds want. Sometimes you get it right, sometimes you get it wrong.
But i’d also like to point out three of the people most cheered in modern WWE are so because 1. people like to sing his song, 2. people like to say his catchphrase and 3. people like to chant his name. How much of those audience reactions are just because a subset of fans think buying a ticket makes them entitled to be part of the show?
@Kenny,
As Zach Ryder, Cardona moved merch. When he won the IC strap in the ladder match WM, he got one of the largest pops ever, and social media went nuts and he was a top trender. Your entire post fails to take into consideration. In fact, your entire post seems to take plenty into consideration.
The last paragraph puts on display your failure to grasp the subject. If anything, it proves my point further because those talents are put in the spot to generate that response.