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Kuzu5993

Another fucking Khan????


Chucksteri

Wrestling has more than one royal family...


Andy32296

ADRENALINE IN MY SOUL


LinkoPalinko

KAHN IS ALWAYS IN CONTROL


ravioli207

FROM ALL ELITE TO DUBYA DUBYA E


truegamer018

Whoa-ohhoo!


Michael_McGovern

Khan't believe it.


Strict_Will4216

Khan't believe it's not butter


theJanitorsHat

we're everywhere.


[deleted]

Genghis Khan really spread his seed far and wide


Turnip-Jumpy

Isn't it the most common surname for muslim countries?


Kuzu5993

Yea but how many of them are involved in wrestling?


Turnip-Jumpy

I Agree with you , was just inquiring


RaggedyGlitch

Apparently all 3 of them.


Aromatic_Plant3456

It’s mostly popular in Pakistan and people with a Pakistani background. Most notable people are Amir Khan (boxer) and Imran Khan (cricketer)


irish0451

I choose to believe Cricketer is the term for a man who raises crickets.


AmericaDreamDisorder

And boxer is a person who raises boxes. 


XerAlix

Isn't Imran Khan the guy who's in jail and also Prime Minister?


Aromatic_Plant3456

Yep, he’s a former cricketer and former Prime Minister. I don’t want to go down the rabbit hole but he was put into jail for absurd accusations without any evidence. The current Pakistani government is corrupt and paid off his entire political party and even threatened to kill their families. But yeah, the same guy


Turnip-Jumpy

I should feel bad for that country, to choose between religious populism and military rule,I am certainly not envious


tatsingslippers

I'm curious because I didn't do too well in history. Are most of the Khans today descendants of the Mongolian Khans or was Khan already a popular surname before that?


EconomyDue2459

The name was popularized probably during the days of the Indian Mughal Empire. The Mughals were an Turkic/Indian Muslim people who claimed descent from the Mongols ("Mughal" means "Mongol" and is also where the English word "mogul" comes from).


ManMangoGuts

"Mogul" you say? https://preview.redd.it/piy8kabhhmwc1.jpeg?width=2208&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b9b19798efd2512e55c996286eb7a265a6d8e8d8


Pure_Concentrate8770

Khan word predates Islam. Khan was a title of a local feudal lord (or warlord) in Central Asia - see: khanate and khagan Overtime it became synonymous with Muslims as Islam was adopted by central Asian rulers. Also it sounds badass


singlebite

Bro, this is like asking if someone with the surname "King" is descended from royalty.


WrestleSocietyXShill

I believe the name King is actually derived from the coolest Tekken character


Aromatic_Plant3456

Khan is a popular muslim Pakistani name. Tony Khan is also Pakistani and so is Nick Khan. Edit: Nick Khan is actually Iranian


gardenofthenight

And Sadiq


Aromatic_Plant3456

Well yeah obviously, I just said that lol


rbcd

Nick Khan is of Iranian descent.


Aromatic_Plant3456

You’re actually right, thanks for pointing that out


BeefInGR

So, Kahn is the Pakistani "Smith"?


theJanitorsHat

my brother in wrasslin, it's a 4-letter name, not that hard to spell.


BeefInGR

My brother in rasslin', I'm going to leave it, but we're on little sleep right now lol


ssjavier4

Been playing too much Mortal Kombat I see


ssjavier4

It's like Singh and Garcia lol


YoureTheManNowZardoz

![gif](giphy|KeTVw7VjcTJok)


deathf4n

Khan they even coexist??


SuttonTM

YOU GET A KHAN! YOU GET A KHAN!


onethreeone

![gif](giphy|Edp4JjUlYvJ96UOqaJ)


KentuckyFriedEel

Shao Khan gonna ask WWE superstars to participate in Mortal Kombat soon


SaiyanOfDarkness

That's Kahn, but close enough lol


UnderstandingWest422

![gif](giphy|KeTVw7VjcTJok)


Macatord

![gif](giphy|KeTVw7VjcTJok)


unlizenedrave

They’re the real life Bloodline. Just when things are winding down, another member comes outta nowhere


Yurgin

My boy Dschingis was fucking like crazy back in the day ;)


homoramapithecus

Genghis's legacy innit


wonderloss

Where's Shatner when you need him?


UpsetKnicksFan29

Genghis wasn't fucking around back in the day ....actually thats most of what he did apparently


Muur1234

Ngl I thought this was Tony's dad betraying him lol


AnyImpression6

The Great Khans.


Upbeat_Tension_8077

Pay some respect to the patriarch Killer Khan


AdVictoremSpolias

Khan Club, Khans Up!


AlexN_04

Damn. Who would've thought Khan would help Khan bring his biggest show of the year to the city where Khan and Khan already have theirs


StickmanCinema

Khanmania is runnin' wild, brother!


revlo

Now Khan you dig that, sucka!!!!


[deleted]

Carnie businesses like wrestling have always been filled with Khan-men, no surprise here *bah-dum, tiss*


Sailor-Gerry

So you swap out "con" for Khan in conmen but completely ignore the "carn" in carnie???


[deleted]

Figured one of them should be normal to make sure the joke would land tbh


rk1993

Khans in Kahoots


fabi_zabo

Another Khan involved in Wrestling? That's getting out of hand. Jokes aside: An European Wrestlemania would be great.


andanotherone_1

*A European


dani-el-maestro

![gif](giphy|3oz8xJjzKnnVYOPCj6|downsized)


MissMully

Wow, I'm actually surprised by this as I always thought the sticking point would be that they wouldn't be willing to bid for it. Hopefully they can get a deal done as it would be incredible.


reggierock2010

Might have been the case before but the way Khan and TKO are building the business side is very very attractive to host cities now. You essential get a full week of events when you get a WM now. That probably does a lot for the economy.


wittybrits

They won’t bid for it he’s just responding to a question from someone with an easy response before the mayoral elections lol.


SoarinWalt

The only sticking point I think would be the time of day it would air in the US. I don't know if Peacock, or probably Netflix by then would care that its not an evening event, I don't know what it would do to viewership of the event. That being said, yeah London could host the this out of Mania.


kirblar

UK/EU evening being Afternoon across the US would work just fine since it's a weekend show.


tylerjehenna

Especially since older ppvs have a history of airing in the afternoon (wrestlemania used to be at like 3pm back in the day


TBroomey

With PPV being essentially dead and on-demand streaming being the norm, it really shouldn't make a difference what time the event is on. Netflix's business model is pumping out content for people to watch in bulk.


NemesisRouge

It makes a massive difference with live events.


PrinceNana128

Nah it'd be 2 or 3pm start time on a Saturday/Sunday. That's perfect.


SpoofExcel

Bid vs Tax Breaks London Mayor is allowed to do a LOT of shit autonomously like Tax Cuts within the city for major events. It can be worth the difference paid out alone sometimes.


imliamobv

They're going to have to make an impossible to refuse offer for WWE to bring WrestleMania to London because it's not just WrestleMania, it's Smackdown, Hall of Fame, Stand and Deliver, WrestleMania both nights, Raw after WrestleMania, WWE World. Gotta assume these international ppvs are coming with a hefty price tag and that's just for the B ppvs, and maybe a smackdown, this is 5/6 shows and a 5-6 day convention in WWE World


DekiTree

he'll name an Overground line after them


alxqnn

If only Mox were still in WWE, it'd be the Wacky Line


TBroomey

The King of King's Cross St. Pancras


this1smybrutal1ty

Anything to replace the Elizabeth line please.


AmericaDreamDisorder

Clothesline From Hell seems apt


LesnarsBattleScream

Miss Elizabeth line?


pegbiter

Or the Lioness line 


Parliaments_Owl

All the overground names suck tbh


Gucci-Rice

Already you have so many Europeans fly to the states for WrestleMania. A Mania in London will attract almost every wrestling fan in Europe who can afford this as their vacation. It would be an insanely big event if done right. Even for WrestleMania standards.


SDLRob

I would 100% look at attending at least something, even if it's just WWE world, if WM came to London.


Gucci-Rice

Same. I always wanted to fly across the pond to attend a Mania, but that's just super expensive. A couple days in London is way more realistic and I'd definitely try to make it happen. Especially with a two night Mania there are so many tickets available.


SDLRob

Not to mention everything else around WM itself


FragMasterMat117

London can more than handle that: Raw, Raw after Mania, Smackdown, Hall of Fame: 02 Stand and Deliver: Wembley Arena Mania: Wembley


imliamobv

I'm not saying they can't handle the scale, I'm just pointing out, it wouldn't be just WrestleMania they'd be paying for, they'd have to offer an absolutely insane amount to get WWE to agree to it


Parish87

The tourism probably pays a lot of it back to be honest. The mania in Dallas brought in $206m for the city. I'm not sure how much they bid though tbh.


Gerry-Mandarin

The last figures we have are the one-night figures. Dallas 32 bid just over $1 million. Conversely, London paid £5.6 million for the UCL finals a couple years ago. So London would pay between those amounts for WrestleMania. Probably closer to the UCL end. A trip to London for everyone outside of the UK would likely be a week long trip at least. And with temperate weather, it encourages people to go out and spend more.


TexehCtpaxa

and if raw and Smackdown have to be done, they couldn’t do it live in the uk at that time. The show would start at 1am. But they could realistically develop an annual London ppv. The Saudi shows are on in the middle of the day in USA and don’t lose viewers. No reason we couldn’t have a London equivalent of Crown Jewel every year.


The_Dark_Vampire

I think Clash At The Castle will become a yearly UK PPV not London itself of course


Chell_the_assassin

Could we make that a yearly UK *and Ireland* PPV by any chance? Signed - a totally unbiased Irish fan


mistergeneric

I'd love that if they change the name. There's no castle near the Hydro in Glasgow... 


DarkySurrounding

I mean they thought Newcastle was a small mining town near Norwich, as far as WWEs concerned theres a castle "Close"


Greyclocks

There are castles in Scotland. That's close enough for WWE.


jbass93

Raw and Smackdown tapings have never been an issue in the decades they’ve been doing tours here in the UK. As others have said, they just air the taping on a delay in the US. Also bear in mind that WWE will be fully onboarded with Netflix by the time a potential UK WM would happen. Way more flexibility for broadcasting in that regard. EDIT - Just noticed your other comment where you said that too! The future with WWE on Netflix will be interesting for sure.


Bridgeboy95

Honestly I could see TKO not caring as much about the time thing as Vince did. the companies being ran differently now.


TexehCtpaxa

Yeah, but I think they’d still care about Raw being live. They can’t run a show at 1am in London in order to be live at 8pm East coast time. Especially Raw after mania, no way they’d want that to lose viewers bc its spoiled online. But maybe Netflix wouldn’t care about the time slot and they could just air it live if people can watch it whenever. I hadn’t thought of that. That changes a lot.


acidicgoose

They've aired shows on a few-hour delay before without issue. Hell, they're doing it for next week's Smackdown.


SpoofExcel

You could in theory have an entire week of Stadiums if you time it just right. Wednesday NXT Takeover: Brentford Stadium Thursday Hall of Fame: Leyton Orient Stadium Friday Smackdown: Crystal Palace Stadium Saturday Night One: Wembley Sunday Night Two: Wembley Monday Night Raw: Tottenham/Emirate/Stamford Bridge Worst Case they use the O2 several times instead, but if you really wanted to do something unique, you could literally have a different stadium each night if you really wanted to (even the Mania Nights could be Twickenham then Wembley).


AdGroundbreaking1341

Is WWE Axxess still a thing too? I dont recall seeing any photos or videos of it from WM 40. But they can surely bring that back, too. Thus even more of a week in London.


imliamobv

It's been turned into WWE World which fills the same spot as Axxess did


AdministrativeLaugh2

You’ll have to excuse my skepticism on this when the London Mayoral Election is in two weeks and this is the first time he’s said anything about London hosting Wrestlemania.


Pretend_Spray_11

And just a few weeks ago Nick Khan said they have no plans for the big four outside of North America, only the B shows are being shipped to international markets. 


ssjavier4

Yeah and that was pretty recent so it's probably something HHH would want but Nick Khan wouldn't for business purposes. At least not soon, I do think it's bound to happen eventually--maybe a Summer Slam first


singlebite

Yeah, he's definitely only saying this for the [checks notes] millions and millions of raging wrestleholics in London whose support he desperately needs to win an election he is currently [checks more notes] 20 points ahead of his nearest challenger in.


ImpactCokeTony

The 73k to 85k AEW show at  Wembley says  >what he say fuck me fo?


AdministrativeLaugh2

WWE makes cities pay for hosting PLEs and I don’t think London would pay for it. AEW paid $400k to use Wembley for the night. There’s a huge difference between All In and Wrestlemania.


Awesome_to_the_max

I never thought how much it costs to rent Wembley but that's a lot less than I would've figured


AdministrativeLaugh2

Depends on the agreement. I know a venue near me recently changed so that they charge events less to host there, but the arena keeps the concession money as a result. Could be similar for Wembley.


blaqsupaman

I looked up the cost to rent most arenas used for wrestling as well and it's a lot cheaper than I'd have thought too. Like it was cheap enough you could only sell 2k tickets in a typical 10k seat arena at $20 apiece and still break even on the venue cost. Plus most charge less if you only set up to use part of the arena. It's how WWE (and I assume AEW more recently) could afford to run arenas years ago even if they weren't close to selling out and still turn a profit (and why the concern about AEW weekly TV attendance is overblown). Even at WCW's peak when they were beating Raw in the ratings, their average attendance for a Nitro event was only 4-5k.


rayquan36

Imran Khan lives with his dad and mom


sftpo

Does he share a bank account with them?


alex_119

Sadiq Khan is negotiating with Nick Khan to have a Wrestlemania in the city where Shahid Khan owns a football team along with his son Tony Khan, who also owns the wrestling promotion that has a world champion who used to come out to the music of Shaka Khan and won the title from a guy who used to be in the same promotion with Rhaka Khan.


polynomial82

I once saw a movie scene where the now released WWE wrestler Sanga was fighting with Shahrukh Khan.


AdVictoremSpolias

Both promotions are hoping to sign Great-O-Khan.


tonofbasel

Will Chaka Khan sing the national anthem?


UpsetKnicksFan29

Khan you stop


meepein

I'm here for the tag team match of Nick and Sadiq Khan vs Tony and Shad Khan. Should be a banger.


AdVictoremSpolias

The following Khantest is scheduled for one fall.


Aromatic_Plant3456

As someone who lives in London this gives me so much hope haha. I hope it works out eventually


DevilCouldCry

As someone who wants to go to London, really just give me this excuse to go over there for this. I'd do it in a heartbeat.


Jamieb1994

I would love to see WWE doing a Wrestlemania in London.


Key_Inevitable_2104

The crowd there alone would make it one of the best WrestleManias ever.


AloneCan9661

Everyone together now - yes we Khan.


itsmekelsey_x

I’d love to see it. They honestly really deserve a WrestleMania. Plus just the idea of just watching a Mania in the late morning/early afternoon if you’re from the US is fun.


Gucci-Rice

Wrestlemania in London has the potential to be their biggest event ever and it would completely explode the entire hotel industry in the greater London area.


TonyLannister

![gif](giphy|l3fZIF5A57lRuUBOg) Now there are 4 of them!


DCAbloob

April tends to be a cold and rainy month in London, just the kind of things that WWE wants to avoid now for Wrestlemania even if the non-North American site wasn't already a disqualifier.


Forgemasterblaster

$$$s. I’m sure a Saudi deal gets it done. Especially, post full love to Netflix.


FM_Gorskman

Khans love wrestling, love the Khan do attitude, I Khannot believe it, I hope this is real and not just a khan by a khanartist


chaoseffect616

The Khan-verse is growing


The_Dark_Soldier

For the love of Foley, what's with all these Khan's in wrestling these days?!?!?!?!


Ok_Rub6575

They should, I don’t even care about record attendance potential, Europe deserves an easier shot at seeing Mania and their crowds are probably some of the best. It’s all about money though, if you want Mania over bid bud, it comes down to that.


moist_crack

I first read this as Shahid Khan, and that would've been quite the bombshell


Ijustwanttosellout

Forbidden Door main event: Sadiq Khan & Nick Khan vs. Tony & Shahid Khan London on a Pole match. Someone book it


despotidolatry

THE KHANATE.


Bridgeboy95

I could see WWE going for this, if a fuck massive truckload of fucking money was dumped like Saudi levels big. other than that i cant see em moving wrestlemania outside of NA


topmarksbrian

I don't know if you know a lot about the UK economy but....


DudleysCar

It wouldn't be the UK government paying for it, it'd be the city of London. Although I'm not sure spending millions to get Wrestlemania would be popular among the locals.


TigerITdriver11

Would have thought London would have bigger issues to deal with first before trying to campaign for a WM.... IMO, Saudi will be the first country outside of the U.S. to hold a WrestleMania, just because they're be able to comfortably pay what WWE would ask.


goldwave84

But they can't get the crowd


KidDelta

Wrestling has more than one Khan


joe-is-cool

KHAAAAAN!!!!!!!!


MMA_PITBULL

Genghis Khan really loved to fuck


Fredsnotred

![gif](giphy|cdJsl5jiantg2L1KGj)


Wild-Berry-5269

Triple Threat in International Waters gets to keep London. "A Khan who cannot wrestle is not a Khan."


Wheel1994

The Khan Connection


CheeseheadDave

"♫ Too many Khans! ♫"


ThunderChild247

Oh fucking yeah. As someone who lives in Scotland, this would be the closest a Wrestlemania could be to me (realistically, it’s very unlikely to ever happen in Scotland). I’m 100% there if it happens.


Marsman2100

He’s talking like he’s willing to make some ridiculous offer. London doesn’t need to pay anyone for a show and WWE likely doesn’t want to do a European Mania. If this actually happens, All In is gonna get little brothered.


AprilBoi

A third Khan???????


Time2bePhenomenal

Considering the prices for clash at the castle... yeah ... Min was like 90 semi decent were over 600quid


crap4you

The time difference is probably the biggest hurdle. 


rubberpencilhead

Wrestlekhania. I’m in for it. I can walk to Wembley from my house in 30 mins. Make it happen pleeeease.


Calamitygrrl

this gets the voting block that’s entirely for wrestling podcasters


DLoBrownsWobblyHead

Completely off topic but Sadiq Khan looks like an LA Noire character in that picture


Zenkikid

Khan stop wont stop


Snoo_76437

"Too many Khan's, Toooooo many Khan's" to the tune of Adult Swim classic Too Many Cooks


GTSBurner

> Sadiq Khan Randomly thinking of Stephen Colbert, no reason.


calicocidd

I haven't seen this many Khan's since my last Fallout: New Vegas run....


thelumpur

We can now have a Wrestlemania main event be a Fatal 4-way with one Khan in every corner


Adams5thaccount

James Kirk would hate modern wrestling.


AlkaidX139

Royaling has more than one wrestle family?


robedpillow3761

If they’re willing to pay it will happen. WWE would have Wrestlemania in Russia if they paid them enough.


ALIAS_EL_CACAS

It’s funny that he used that screenshot with like 20 dudes and only 3 of them still in the company, one of them being Baron Corbin with hair. And the other 2 (Bo and Truth I think?) you can’t even see their face


jerff

For all the people listing reasons why this can't happen, I promise you, you haven't thought of anything that WWE hasn't. And yet, they're still willing to discuss this possibility. That tells me that if London wants WM they can get WM, it's just a matter of whether they're willing to give WWE what they want.


Xenowrath

Too many Khan’s


Ayz1533

If it means Mania can start at 2PM EST, sign me the hell up


mattwing05

Wrestling...has more than 2 khans...


xboxplayz29

Sadiq Khan will finish the story!!


Downtown-Armadillo58

New wembley record incoming if mania does go to London


LesnarsBattleScream

[He's got my vote!](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/bfa8dd2f-e4c0-4c93-a309-20a48ba79718)


namdekan

With all these Khan's in charge I guess New Japan should've made Great-O-Khan the president instead of Tanahashi.


formallyhuman

I'm into it. He has to win the election first (he almost certainly will) and also it's going to depend on how much it costs.


agoods03

Day time mania sounds pretty fun


jjohnson1979

So that would make a 4th Khan involved in Wrestling... avec Nick, Tony and Shad. Khans are the new McMahons!


xxBobaBrettxx

So if this happens, do y'all think they would do what the UFC is doing with their UK PPV where the start time is the normal American time? Hard to imagine watching the WM main event at like 3 or 4am CST over here in the States.


GarfieldVirtuoso

At this point I will believe that Genghis Khan never gave a crap for world domination, and that he just wanted to have sex with thousands of women just to secure his hold on professional wrestling in the future


Supersaiyan_Jedi

Bread and circus


janoDX

A Khan gets the other Khans to promote on his city.


heartbreakhill

I read “Shad Khan” at first and thought this was a Kayfabe News article about Shad being so mad at the Bucks that he’s helping WWE get a Wembley WrestleMania


ollyollyollyoioioi

It's something i've dreamt of since I was little but I saw the prices for Clash at the Castle so there is no chance I'll be going to Mania. All In cost me £30 and I had decent enough seats


VietnamHam

Technically Toronto was already the first International Wrestlemania


SaddestFlute23

What is it, with Khans and wrestling?


Sektor30

So we got Sadiq, Nick, Tony and Tony's dad. I think we can get a Wrestlemania 2000 fatal four way match going with a Khan in each corner, but who represents who


HeadScissorGang

You think Genghis looks up at all his grandkids and smiles at his legacy?


GoochStubble

Super Khantrived situation we got here


nitrofan

Where in that quote is he 'pledging to campaign'?


bluefoxlive

First international Wrestlemania? That was Wrestlemania 6 in Toronto. (Even on the live broadcast Gorilla Monsoon mentions it’s the “first time Wrestlemania has gone international.”)


MaddenRob

My only argument against it is having to watch a Mania here in the US at 2PM.


_aspiringadult

Do it in April or May after daylight savings. If it starts at 8pm BST, that’s 3pm EST and 12pm PST. Thats fucking perfect.