One point Khan did agree with MVP on was how easy some wrestling reporting could be distorted by certain sources looking to gain favorable coverage, and pointed out rumors of heat between MVP and “Speedball” Mike Bailey as a sign of sources being misleading. With jobs in the NFL and England’s Premier League giving him the opportunity to see how their respective media work, Khan compared the wrestling media landscape to that of other sports, and noted the contrasts between them.

“There’s different ethics in journalism,” Khan said. “And I do think, to your point, the sourcing, the verifying of rumors, there’s a much higher standard for reporting things in football than there is in wrestling. The kind of sourcing you need to report what is just a rumor, like these locker room rumors, you don’t see real football writers writing these kind of things. In wrestling, the journalistic standard is far lower.

“But there are the benefits from the coverage that you get, just like, in any other sport where you want to have the top writers talking about what they see, giving their opinions. I don’t always agree with the football writers, I don’t always agree with the wrestling writers, but I respect that people follow something year round. Especially wrestling, which really truly is year round. But if you follow the sport and…just like in football and wrestling, I think there is a similar thing where some writers set a higher standard for their writing and for their ethics.”

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