Nick Khan says it would be too tough to do an ICE arresting WWE Superstars storyline.
WWE President Nick Khan was a recent guest on The Bill Simmons Podcast. During the conversation, he addressed whether the promotion would consider doing storylines that mirror real-life political issues.
Nick Khan says WWE cannot do storylines like that
Nick Khan replied that, given the current political environment, it would be too tough to have storylines like that. He also pointed out that the company tried to do a politically correct angle with Joe Gacy when he was the leader of the Schism in NXT, saying it didn’t work out.
Bill 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?
Nick 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]
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