Tony Khan Says AEW Is In A Very Good Place To Make Lucrative Media Rights Deal

Tony Khan, President of AEW, is known for his passion for professional wrestling. However, in recent times, fans have expressed doubts about his ability to lead effectively, due to a series of questionable booking decisions and remarks that he has made. Khan also believes AEW is in a good place to make a lucrative deal for media rights.

AEW has certainly come a long way after its inception back in 2019. This has largely to do with how the company has changed its overall presentation, feel and somewhat ditching its indie vibes.

Tony Khan also managed to sign a huge deal with WarnerBros Discovery as well as TBS, which will be lasting for a while now. In fact, Khan feels very confident that the media rights for AEW will be in demand once the promotion’s deal expires.

While speaking during a recent interview with Uproxx Sports, Tony Khan explained how the AEW library, along with the ROH library, will make AEW a hot commodity for whoever decides to bid on their rights deal.

I expect big increases in the rights for the AEW programs and we’re on a good pace to make a very lucrative deal for the AEW media rights going forward.

We’ve done 174 episodes of Dynamite, 80 episodes of AEW Rampage, our 17th pay-per-view event will be March 5 in Revolution, so we’ve done hundreds and hundreds of hours of AEW content in our library. I also purchased Ring of Honor last year, which is a great promotion with over 20 years of history, thousands of hours of video in their library.

So overall, AEW has access to so many great wrestling events, including some events that are widely considered to be some of the best wrestling events of all time. There’s a lot of interest in this library as well as the new weekly content we continue to produce each week, and I do think there’s a lot of demand for the library and it makes a lot of sense for us to try to make that AEW library available to fans all over the world on demand.

Tony Khan is already working on getting a streaming service for AEW, one way or the other. Regardless, we will have to wait and see whether Tony Khan will manage to sell AEW’s media rights in the future.

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