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Cowherd asked if a heel can ever be as beloved as a babyface in WWE. Khan said that he believes so. Ric Flair was a heel for most of his career. The Rock was a heel for a good portion of his career. Your hero is only as great as your heel. He doesn't know Muhammad Ali is Ali without Joe Frazier. The NBA and others are having ratings issues, but what's the rivalry right now? All the things they grew up on, the great rivalries made the leagues and currently they just aren't there.
Cowherd pointed out that Vince has had issues at times with his wrestlers. He said the NBA is too concerned with making every player happy. Rupert Murdoch isn't trying to make every FOX employee happy. He asked Khan if anything surprised him about Vince's personality. Khan said that since Vince is so perceived as so tough and smart - and he is - but he was surprised by how polite Vince is. He said Vince is very old school and there's not a lot of small talk but Vince is polite and likes when people are polite. He said the two of them aren't interested in a lot of small talk. Is everyone OK? Yeah, let's talk shop. That's how Vince is. His conversations happen at 2 AM. He will call Vince and say can we talk shop. Vince says yes, and they do it and get done and move onto the next thing. Vince can "stick and move" quickly. He wants to do right by the talent. If he feels he's being cornered, he will be ready to fight but "calculated in the way he fights."
Cowherd said WWE is a turbulent 24/7-365 day a year lifestyle and Vince is at the point where he doesn't need the money. Given that he has obviously had offers to sell (speaking from perspective that there *must* have been, not speaking about a specific offer that existed), he asked Khan ever why Vince doesn't sell the company. Khan said that if someone has been through tumult in someone's childhood and they get through it, you can't be hungry after really having hunger. He said that he doesn't see Cowherd retiring and then not wanting something to do. He loves a three day weekend but by the end he's ready to go back to work.
Khan said he doesn't believe Vince wants to sell because "number one, he's built it, number two, he's the best person to run it and number three, what's he going to do?" Khan said there was an exec a few years back who asked him where Vince was spending his summer and Vince asked him what he was talking about, he was spending it in Stamford, CT in his office. He's not going to be the guy relaxing on a yacht.
Cowherd said Vince has to give trust to others to make decisions when he lets go and trusts them but it's a chance where Vince is the face of the company if it has a failure. Khan said most people like that at the top is that they talk straight. Those in middle management have to refer to others. Everyone has push from stockholders and others but none of the people at the top have to do hem and haw. They get to make a decision and there's fun in that and even if there's a failure, they have to take stock of that but that's the risk they take being in that position. Everyone has a trusted circle that they trust. Vince has that and it's no different from what Khan saw with Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch was the boss but they had the chance to make the decisions. They just had to hope they made the right ones. If he made wrong decisions for clients as an agent, he could be fired but that's part of being in the position to make the decisions. You just hope you are doing the right thing.
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