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Tony Khan: “AEW Has Bigger Stars & Better Wrestlers than NXT!”

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During a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, Tony Khan commented on the debut of AEW Dynamite, the “Wednesday Night Wars”, NXT, and more. You can check out some highlights from the interview below:

On the ‘Wednesday Night War’: “The AEW roster has much bigger stars and better wrestlers frankly than the NXT roster. The AEW shows are going to be in major arenas instead of a smaller building in front of a few hundred people. But I think it’s a good competition for us. It attracts more fans to the idea of the Wednesday night wars. I think the most compelling story in wrestling these days in many ways is AEW vs. WWE. Fans see the competition between wrestling companies, which is the one thing traditionally everyone has known is real. People can question the validity of other things, including stuff you and I know is real stuff but other people think is wrestling trickery. The one thing I think everyone knows in real life is these companies don’t like each other and they want to stop each other from getting viewers and want to get the most market share they can possibly get for themselves. That realism to me was one of the driving forces of the resurgence of wrestling in the mid-90s and then led to the decline of the wrestling business after that competition ceased.”

On Jon Moxley joining AEW: “That was the one part I didn’t account for. Most of what we’re doing is stuff I could have planned ahead for. But that was the one element I had no idea. People ask me is this what I envisioned and I say yeah but the big part that changed the show and took that show from an A to an A+ was Jon. We had no idea that [Jon was going to be available]. It was one of the most fortunate breaks that’s ever happened to me in my life.”