AEW President Tony Khan was a recent guest on the “Swerve City Podcast” and admitted that he’s used ideas from fans on Twitter for AEW live events.
Additionally, Khan commented on if he knows Elon Musk personally and the importance of Twitter for wrestling.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On if he knows Elon Musk and the importance of Twitter for wrestling: “No, my dad knows [Elon] really well. I don’t know him at all, my dad knows him from the automobile business. I think they’ve interacted a number of times, I don’t know him. I think Twitter is really important for pro wrestling, there’s a really big network of people. Fans, and obviously wrestlers, and people in the business and around the business. All kinds of people unite and bond every week over wrestling on Twitter, every day. Honestly, the fact is Twitter is a place with a lot of engagement, and I think we should embrace, for us, that for wrestling there are a lot of people who care about wrestling on there, wrestlers and fans. They have found a really special connection, and it holds up every single week where wrestling is the top trending thing on the platform on a Wednesday night and a Friday night.”
On taking some ideas from fans: “I do think we get good ideas from it, being connected with the fans and the other wrestlers. You get ideas. Not every idea is possible, sometimes there are good ideas you just can’t do. There’s probably, with one or two wrestlers alone, there’s probably 76, 78 different opponents that they could have, but there are only so many people you can wrestle, especially at the same time. I think you do get great ideas from there, and how do you incorporate them? But there are some simple things like I saw somebody saying we should use the moving graphics for the PPV. I was going to shoot Punk and Hangman for their match this past week. But then Hangman had COVID so he was out, so we are going to shoot him next week. But we shot Punk, and people were really excited, and it was this guy [on Twitter]. I told him it was a good idea.”
On the online wrestling community: “I just hope it’s still a great place for wrestling fans and wrestlers to come together. A lot of people have negative experiences with it too, but people keep coming back. There’s a big community of wrestling fans on Twitter, so hopefully, he will do great with it. For all the negatives, I think there are overwhelming positives about wrestling on Twitter.”
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