Tony Khan to auction off NFL Draft neck brace for charity

Since taking a Meltzer/Tony Khan Driver from The Elite at the end of Dynamite this past Wednesday, AEW owner, president, and head of creative Tony Khan has been a hot topic on the wrestle web.

Khan was mostly praised for selling the attack by wearing a neck brace while representing his father’s pro football team, the Jacksonville Jaguars, at the NFL Draft this week… something he’s still doing today (April 27).

He’s doing more than just popping NFL Network’s Rich Eisen. Khan’s promised to sign and donate the neck brace to support Eisen’s fundraising efforts for St. Jude Children’s Hospital:

“Tony Khan has texted… he heard me throwing out, ‘Hey, when you’re done with the brace, would like to sign it and donate the proceeds to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital’.

“He said — and I mean Always Be Closing here, right Tony? — ‘When I’ve recovered from that spike piledriver on AEW Dynamite’ — did I get it right for you, Tony? — ‘I will absolutely sign this neck brace and sell it and donate it to St. Jude to support Run Rich Run’.

“So thank you, Tony. And get well fast.”

Good stuff, whatever you think of everything else swirling around the angle.

How soon will TK recover from the devastating maneuver The Young Bucks hit him with? We could find out tonight on Collision. AEW will look to capitalize on all the attention Khan’s gotten, and the big lead-in the show should have from the NBA Playoff game that precedes it on TNT, by promoting an update on Khan’s condition for Collision:

Will that help Collision draw a big rating? Does any of this help mitigate the mostly critical response to Khan calling WWE “the Harvey Weinstein of pro wrestling” on NFL Network yesterday? We’ll find out next week on the ratings, and I’m guessing no on the other question.

But if you can do so without insulting other Cagesiders, let us know what you think in the comments below.