This week’s episode of Friday Night SmackDown took place from Montreal and Ariel Helwani appeared during the show as he hyped up the Elimination Chamber premium live event while he broadcasted from the crowd.
THE SCENES!!!!
GET IN @arielhelwani!!!!#SmackDown pic.twitter.com/hpISCL0yFT
— WWE on BT Sport (@btsportwwe) February 18, 2023
The appearance didn’t go unnoticed by AEW’s own Tony Khan as he took to Twitter to call Ariel Helwani a fraud when he posted the following:
“You’re a fraud @arielhelwani. You’re as legitimate of a reporter as @tonyschiavone24. #AEWRampage”
You're a fraud @arielhelwani. You're as legitimate of a reporter as @tonyschiavone24. #AEWRampage
— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) February 18, 2023
Ariel Helwani previously interviewed Tony Khan months ago, but said that it was, “one of the most frustrating, and to a degree, not-so-fun interviews of his career.”
Helwani went on to add context as to why he found the interview frustrating when he said, “He didn’t want to answer anything. You’re going to come on and promote X, Y, and Z, great. And I’ll play that dance with you. I did, at the beginning. But you got to give us something, to not even tell me how you were feeling. I’m not asking for specifics, alright fine I am, but is Punk going to wrestle for you, is he coming back, you don’t want to get into it, fine. But tell me how you were feeling. Give me something.”
It’s been quite the night for Tony Khan on social media and it seems that Khan will have something to say next week as AEW has announced that he will be making an important announcement on Dynamite. There’s currently no word on what the announcement will be. Stay tuned for updates.
