Nick Khan Told Busted Open/WWE Radio Crew That He Doesn’t Want Them To Stop Being Critical Of WWE

The Busted Open/WWE Radio crew had a chat with Nick Khan.

Busted Open’s 24/7 pro wrestling channel has transitioned into WWE Radio after a partnership was announced.

Busted Open’s Dave LaGreca, Tommy Dreamer, Mark Henry and Bully Ray were present at SummerSlam. They were shown in the front row and acknowledged during the broadcast.

They discussed their experience and recounted a conversation with WWE President Nick Khan. He told them he does not want them to stop being critical of WWE. Bully and LaGreca spoke about how no other wrestling company has placed them in the front row and identified them.

Bully: “Freaking WWE rolled out the red carpet for us.”

LaGreca: “They really did.”

Bully: “Forget about the — yes, the partnership is what it is but — and I’ve said this on the air to you hundreds of times. You have overextended yourself to every wrestling company on the planet.”

LaGreca: “Some of those companies thanked me by putting me in section 313, row 24.”

Bully: “How did the WWE thank you and us?”

LaGreca: “Putting us in the front row and identifying us during the broadcast.”

Bully: “Has any other wrestling company ever put us on the front row and identified us?”

LaGreca: “No.”

Bully: “Should they have?”

LaGreca: “Yes.”

Bully: “The WWE did so thank you to the WWE for the great, great treatment. Shout out to Nick Khan, who got up out of his front row seat to walk halfway around the stadium to come up to us, say hello, tell us how great he thought the partnership was going so far, asked us if we need anything, were we comfortable. Thank you Nick Khan for being a complete gentleman.”

LaGreca: “Showing us the appreciation of us with this partnership and how he wants nothing to change with the way that we talk about the WWE.”

Bully: “What were the words that came out of Nick Khan’s mouth?”

LaGreca: “He said how much he enjoys it, how much he loves it and he doesn’t want things to change, and then he pointed — he put his finger on my chest and pointed at me and said, ‘You, especially you. I don’t want you to change at all,’ and then he used an example of somebody that he really enjoyed listening to that gave a little bit of shill radio and he just stopped listening, because it’s not a product that you wanna listen to. The reason that they wanted to partner with us and the reason that they wanted to be a part of our (brand) is because they love what we do… I know people wanna say whatever they want and make any kind of opinions and judgments… What we do with our critical radio, it’s not gonna change, nor should it and it won’t.”

Bully: “That’s the specific of we’re not changing anything. We’re not gonna change. We’re gonna come out here and we’re gonna be just as critical as we ever were.”

Another aspect of the partnership saw NXT’s Vic Joseph and Booker T doing the play-by-play of SummerSlam for radio listeners. A blind wrestling fan sent a positive message to Joseph for his and Booker’s coverage.

If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Busted Open with an H/T to Fightful for the transcriptions.