In a shocking revelation that’s equal parts hilarious and inspirational, WWE President Nick Khan has been outed… as a WrestleMania IX usher.
Yes, really.
As revealed in a new WWE documentary titled “WrestleMania IX: Becoming a Spectacle” (now streaming on Peacock for the 7 people who still remember their login), Paul “Triple H” Levesque posted a clip that shows a young Nick Khan, dressed in full Caesar’s Palace usher regalia, strolling behind Howard Finkel through the crowd. He looks like a man ready to escort you to Section D and also maybe restructure your streaming rights.
The footage sent wrestling Twitter into a frenzy, as viewers saw Khan—now one of the most powerful execs in sports entertainment—rocking the official WrestleMania IX lime-green usher shirt, probably wondering if anyone’s going to order another round of nachos before Undertaker rides in on a chariot.
Hulk Hogan, The Undertaker, and even Khan’s old client Colin Cowherd chimed in on the moment. Hogan, never missing a chance to cut a promo on reality, declared the moment as “proof that the American Dream is still alive, brother!”
Weirdly, he’s not wrong.
Khan’s rise is the stuff of corporate fairy tales. From a Las Vegas native and Rock’s childhood buddy, to Hollywood agent at CAA, to WWE President and occasional co-CEO, his résumé reads like a LinkedIn fever dream. He’s the kind of guy who starts off selling programs and ends up selling entire media rights packages.
And now, thanks to WWE’s long-lost vault of WrestleMania IX footage (finally edited into a watchable doc after only three decades), we’ve got video proof of his humble wrestling beginnings: walking the aisle not to compete, but to help confused tourists find their seats during the most toga’d Mania of all time.
It’s like discovering your CFO used to be the guy handing out towels at Bash at the Beach.