WWE President Nick Khan was a guest on "The Bill Simmons Podcast" and was asked whether the company would be willing to run an angle or storyline related to the world's tense political situation. One of the examples brought up was to use an ICE agent, which has been referenced on WWE, to arrest a star. Khan pretty much put the brakes on that scenario. He also shot down any chance of him appearing on WWE TV as an on-screen character.
Simmons: Would you ever consider doing the 80s thing, using WWE to mirror things that are going on in real life, like some of the political stuff? That seems like that ship sailed 20 years ago?
Khan: Too tough. It’s too tough with the political environment now. Like to have ICE officers arresting like Dragon Lee…
Simmons: You could never do any of that stuff. That would be crazy. Yeah, that would be awful.
Khan: You couldn’t do it, yeah.
Simmons: But could you do like, I don’t know, somebody like a super left liberal wrestler as a heel, who’s just like constantly correcting everybody? Or do like a super MAGA? Like, you just would stay away completely from all that stuff?
Khan: We did it for a moment in time in NXT when we were coming out of COVID. The guy who’s in the Wyatt Sicks now, Joe Gacy, before he would, let’s say, body slam you, he would apologize that he had to.
Simmons: That didn’t work? [laughs]
Khan: No, it didn’t work. But he was like, ‘I’m very sorry that I have to wrestle you.’
Simmons: So like a politically correct angle?
Khan: Right. For everything, ‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry.’
H/T: F4WOnline.com for transcribing the quotes.
