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Tony Khan on Importance of AEW’s TV Deal Driving Revenue Point, Original Company Name

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AEW President Tony Khan made an appearance on the latest AEW Unrestricted Podcast where he spoke about a wide range of topics. 

This includes AEW’s television deal with TNT and more. Here are the highlights: 

The original name for a wrestling company: 

“It wasn’t exactly AEW to begin with. Actually, my first idea was something first called World’s Best Wrestling. Because I was trying to — which you know, at the end of the day, it’s a similar meaning to All Elite Wrestling. Trying to say we’re doing great wrestling, right?”

AEW’s TV revenue: 

“I had approached Kevin Reilly, my good friend. When I walked over to him, it was during a time period that … at that point, there were WWE TV rights being bid out, and they were bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars on TV rights. So as we looked at it, I was saying, ‘Okay well, all of a sudden now the economics of wrestling have flipped.’ The TV show has become such an important [thing]. Everyone who’s watched wrestling knows that those TV shows are a huge part of it, but they’re more important than ever before. If you look at the economic pyramid of a wrestling company, the TV show is really the prime dollar which hasn’t always been the case. It used to be, people used to look at TV as something you would use almost to promote your live events and PPVs. Those are not the driving forces.”

H/t to 411mania.com for the transcription.