Tony Khan Boasts That AEW Got Hot When He Took Over Booking

AEW’s inception came about at Double Or Nothing 2019 and since then, the company has done all it could to provide a product that true lovers of pro wrestling would enjoy. For the most part, they have succeeded, but there is still a lot of room for improvement. Now it seems AEW President Tony Khan recently bragged about being in control of the company.

AEW has all the momentum in the world right now thanks to the debuts of CM Punk, Bryan Danielson and Adam Cole to their roster, ensuring that the roster is one of the most stacked in all of pro wrestling.

While speaking on Moose & Maggie on WFAN, Tony Khan talked about having complete creative control in AEW. Khan bragged that once he took over the creative aspect of things in AEW, things got ‘really hot.’

“It’s allowed me to get my hands around it, but even before the pandemic, really before that, it was at the beginning of 2020, really at the end of 2019. I told myself going into the new year, I’m just gonna do everything by hand, because at first, coming in, I was timing everything. And I would keep track of times, and we had a great group of people. I still do have a great group of people, but I just needed to probably take more ownership of what I was doing because at the end of the day, there were a lot of cooks in one show.

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And it’s just hard because I still want to get everyone’s ideas, but you have to organize everything into one show, and that’s why I still love working with everyone. But I just thought it was a little misleading because somebody just reported that recently, but it’s really been that way since about 2020. And things got really hot around then too. So I think it’s been good for our business because I’m very organized and meticulous about how AEW’s structured, what matches go on, and I make sure we have a lot of time for the wrestling and have great matches.”

Tony Khan recently stated that he couldn’t wait to see AEW Rampage defeat Friday Night Smackdown in ratings this week. However, that didn’t end up happening as Smackdown on FS1 still managed to get more viewership than AEW Rampage.

h/t to Wrestling Inc for the quotes.

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