While stranded at an airport on the way to the Canelo Alvarez vs. Jaime Munguia fight in Las Vegas, Booker T decided to use his Hall of Fame podcast to discuss one of the grandest feuds in all of professional wrestling right now: Tony Khan versus The Elite.

Now for Booker, the storyline really comes down to two separate but interlocked angles: what's going on in front of the screen and what's happening behind it. In relation to the former, the six-time World Champion wonders why TK decided to put himself in such a public spot on AEW's weekly programming, especially when he wasn't exactly taking believable bumps from the Bucks on Dynamite.

“Well, we’ve seen those guys do that move before, and seem like they did in slow motion. Seemed like Tony Khan’s head was about a foot off the ground when he actually did. He actually paused before he actually put him down. And which, I understand taking care of the boss. I get that. But if you have to do it like that, why do it at all? I don’t know. Everybody knew Jack Perry was wrapping up in New Japan, and then for him to come back with him. I don’t know what you get out of doing an angle like that,” Booker T explained via 411 Mania.

“And the one thing I really don’t agree with is once, you know, once the boss starts getting involved in the angle and becomes a personality on the show, a character on the show. You are already the boss, and now you are the character as the boss on television, as well. It’s really hard to oversee what’s really, really going on. And from what we’ve heard, Tony Khan has every job at AEW as far as writing, you know, of course, creative. As far as booking, you know. That right there is, and then now [being on the show], it always is a recipe for disaster in this business. And just about every promoter that has put themselves in that position, has ruined it for everybody on our own show. And I say that having a show like Reality Of Wrestling myself. And of course, I’m on the show sometimes, but I try my best to be off the show as much as I possibly can.”

Is it a bit unusual for Booker to be critiquing a promoter for making themselves an on-screen personality when one of the most famous moments of his own professional wrestling career involved his former boss saying a racial slur in his proximity? Totally, but it seems like Booker took much more offense with Khan's comments on WWE than what he put on AEW television, as it casts the company he's worked for in a bad light.

Booker T doesn't like how Tony Khan talked at WWE around the Draft.

Turning his attention from Tony Khan's in-character confrontation to his work/shoot efforts around the NFL Draft, Booker T reflected on his issues with taking what could have been a quality promotional effort for AEW and turning it into an attack on WWE, with the Jacksonville Jaguars co-owner famously comparing the top name in Sports Entertainment to Harvey Weinstein.

“It’s good to have overseers. It’s good to have, you know, other people’s eyes for the product and what we’re trying to do in order to make it stronger. But I don’t think you put me in a situation like Tony Khan just went though. I don’t know, Tony Khan made some statements about the company that I work for, which I really take offense to. Because when you say stuff like what Tony Kahn said, it’s kind of like a blanket statement on everybody. And I’ve worked with that company for more than 20 years. And I really take offense to a lot of things, what has been said from Tony Khan about the company. And I don’t really want to get into it here on the radio or on the podcasts, or anything like that. But rest assured, If I see him in person, I like to say stuff to people in person and say, you know, ‘Hey, man, I really, you know, don’t feel a certain way.’ So I’ll leave it at that,” Booker T explained.

“But that’s the time when you can really show how astute you really are, and what kind of businessman you really are by talking about what was really going on, and that was the NFL Draft. And you know how good they did, or how bad they did in the Draft. To be able to, you know, circle back, pivot to what’s going on in AEW and talk about the angle, and create a buzz around the company. Oh yes, you do that as well. But there again, is a way to be able to cover all bases. It really makes yourself look a certain way as opposed to the way he made himself. And the thing is, where’s it coming from? Because I don’t see any of this coming from the other side. This is a one-sided affair. I’m just saying, where is it coming from? What’s the disdain coming from, where is the hate coming from to be able to make a statement like that? You have to question that.”

Is Booker T on the money to suggest that the public feud between AEW and WWE is a “one-sided affair?” Objectively speaking, no, absolutely not; just CM Punk talked trash on AEW before WrestleMania 40 in a very public way and mentioned the promotion twice in his most recent promo, with other stars and even commentators taking digs at the promotion from time to time when they find it convenient. Still, if you aren't super in the loop, which Booker may or may not be, Khan's comments truly may have come as a surprise, which would elicit the response he expressed on his Hall of Fame podcast.