Since its inception in 2019, AEW has allowed its talents to work for other promotions in parallel. This lucrative perk has caused many WWE Superstars to jump ship to AEW although some wrestlers have ended up worse than they were before.
During a media call for AEW Revolution on Friday, AEW President Tony Khan stated that he wants to keep the talents happy and is thus open to wrestlers pursuing external opportunities as long as such outside projects do not harm AEW. He said,
“We work with the wrestlers in AEW. Anytime they have a big opportunity, if people come to us and say, ‘this is going to be good for us,’ it doesn’t even have to be great for the company, as long as it’s not going to hurt the company, if it’s going to be good for them, I want people to have these opportunities and take advantage of them. I want a happy roster. As long as it’s not going to hurt AEW, I want to try and facilitate that. When people have opportunities in film, television, or other media, if it’s not going to effect the storylines on TV in a major detrimental way, then of course we always want to try and accommodate things when possible. We’ve had people come into AEW and that was one of the reasons they wanted to come here, the other opportunities in wrestling. They weren’t given that kind of freedom for outside projects when they’re not working on TV for us.”
