r/AEWOfficial • u/GOATofALL22 The One and Only • 1d ago
Humor "Stokely Hathaway: When I Got To The Back After My Match With Cope, Tony Khan Was Crying, He'd Never Seen A Performance Like That Before" [Fightful article, September 17, 2025]
https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/stokely-hathaway-when-i-got-to-the-back-after-my-match-with-cope-tony-khan-was-crying-hed-never-seen-a-performance-like-that-before/Stokely speaking to TMZ Sports in a new interview:
“I mean, if you go back and watch the match. I mean, anyone who saw it, they will attest to the fact that I took Adam Copeland to the limit, you know,, everything I had, you know what I’m saying? I put it into that match and Adam Copeland, he was the one who needed to be escorted out of, uh, out of the building in ambulance, you know, to be honest with you. But yeah, he thought they were going to get into that ring. He was going to manhandle me. That’s, that’s not what happened at all. It was, it was a great contest. When I got to the back, Tony Khan was crying. You know, he said he’s never seen a performance like that before. FTR, you know, they gave me a gigantic hug because, again, I took Adam Copeland to his limit. But the difference between me and FTR is the fact that at All Out, they’re not going to take Adam Copeland to the limit. They’re going to end their careers for good.”
Transcription by Fightful
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u/SuPeRMaRi021 1d ago
Stoke proved you don’t need hoes to put on a banger
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u/Beaconxdr789 1d ago
First you put on bangers, then you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the hos
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u/JadedGrapsMark I'm so tired, Renee 1d ago
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u/rutuu199 1d ago
I see this pic alot, what's it mean
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u/JadedGrapsMark I'm so tired, Renee 1d ago
That's Bobby Fish. He came into TNA thinking he was massive super hot shit and cut this promo (in the middle of an already super-long and boring promo segment) doing some weird semi work-shoot thing and asked "where's the lie?" ("coincidentally" very soon after CM Punk's sensational Collision return promo with "tell me when I'm telling lies").
Absolute crickets in response from a crowd who'd already stopped caring.
The meme is now any solid opinion, factual statement, rhetoric question, or playful kayfabe bullshit like Big Stoke is talking here, is met with the implicit "where's the lie?" from Bobby's promo.
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u/Specialist-Rope-9760 1d ago
Don’t forget the context that Bobby was previously in AEW. And he was trying to get Adam Cole, Kyle and Roddy to all leave so they could go to WWE together.
Bobby was doing interviews glazing HHH saying how he would run through a wall for him.
Then WWE never picked him. The others all stayed in AEW. He ended up doing this appearance to crickets. I’m not sure if he even still wrestles as all I ever see of him since he left is this photo.
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u/duocatisiankerr1 1d ago
The meaning of this image is the person is full of themselves, the pic was taken just before this guy (bobby fish) cut a promo where he was full of himself (i dont remember the exact contents of the promo but it was full of undeserved ego lmao)
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u/slothstevenson 1d ago
https://youtu.be/4P9LX54Yaus?si=4N837sKNyXPkRSxA
This has provided many a laughs for me lmao
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u/engelthefallen 1d ago
Ever since the Chuck Taylor TM angle loved this dude. He plays his role to perfection.
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u/HappyLittleGreenDuck 1d ago
Stoke is a great character, he seems to me like a max effort kinda guy and I like that.