So I think it's quite clear these days that Tony Khan understands professional wrestling.

When you hear Mr. Khan talk about sports entertainment, well, this dude has some serious knowledge.

Sadly, though, because we are living in 2006, many a fan wants to make some stuff up about

all elite wrestling.

So let's try and get back to brass taxes today.

For example, what things actually are banned in AW and what's free reign to do whatever you want with.

My name is Simon Miller and on behalf of what culture wrestling is 12 things you didn't know Tony

Khan banned in AEW. Number 12 chair shots to the head sometimes. Back in July 2020, the ever

reliable Fightful Select reported at AEW were tightening things up. This report underlined that the whole idea was to help protect talent staff, crew and fans, and one of the mentions was maybe we should ban unprotected chair shots to the head. And look, there are way less of them now in AEW, but every now and then you still do see them. I guess it's like a par driver in WW. It kind of feels like something that AEW is always

ummed an R over, because if you go to its second show ever at Fighter Fest, Sean Spears turned heel on Cody Rhodes by blasting him with, yes, an unprotected chair shot to the head. Now, this was very polarising, given what we know about CTE, but it's only fair to mention that the company did try to gimmick this chair, but it's still a weapon and it still has sides and it still

has a density. So I did get Cody in the wrong play. It's only fair to mention that the company did try to gimmick this chair, but it's still a weapon,

and it still has sides, and it still has a density, so it did get Cody in the wrong place, so good grief to that guy bleed. Now, look, once again, Cody and Tony Khan came out and expressed remorse over the incident, and an all-releet wrestling source reached out to SB Nation in the aftermath and said that from that point on, those kind of spots had essentially been banned.

Now, as always, these are human beings that are allowed to make their own decisions, and you have to imagine that a certain degree of safety is putting into them. Let's not pretend why they didn't get so popular in the first place. When you get it right, it looks cool. At the same time, I personally would like us as a wrestling community to move away from these. And really, if you have watched AEW over the last year or so, well, they've not done anything like it.

I think sometimes we do have to remember they were born in 2019. They're allowed to have some issues. But as of today, I would hazard a guess that these things are off the table. Number 11, selling that is too realistic. Now, of course, a bunch of people have just jumped out their chairs saying, I knew it, I told you so, because for some reason there is an ongoing discussion on the internet that people in AEW wrestling do not sell. That is ridiculous. There is many a ways to approach the sell job in professional wrestling, and if you only want to see it done one way, and then all of a sudden this did happen, I can tell you right now, sports on the table would be really boring. Instead, we are talking about a very specific wrestler,

and his name is Brian Danielson. You may have heard of him. Many would say he is one of the best in-ring performers of all time, and damn it, I'd agree with him. When he did leave WW4-A-W in

2021, though, Brian came out and admitted an interview after the fact he had told Vince McMahon,

one of the reasons he wanted to do this is because he wanted to bleed.

Not allowed to bleed in WWE, they want advertisers.

One day he also came up with the idea that given he had had so many concussions that forced

him into an early retirement, maybe he could start inserting that into his matches.

So if somebody did smack him too hard, Brian Danielson had a habit of falling down and basically pretending that he was having a seizure. I mean, sometimes he would even convulse. Now, the issue with this is that sort of thing is too serious to work. I mean, you're thinking one of two things. Either A, we are leaning way too heavily into the fiction here, or B, this could be happening because we know the American

Dragon have suffered from these before. This is why around 2002 there was another report that

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