Tony Khan has simply revealed a significant change he has made inside AEW. This pertained to the best way issues had been run in a selected space of the corporate, which impacts all expertise.
Khan isn’t just the President and CEO of All Elite Wrestling; he additionally works carefully with the various names signed to his firm. He’s a significant a part of the artistic reserving course of, and he collaborates with these backstage and within the completely different areas of the corporate that they cowl.
Whereas talking with Jon Alba on The Takedown on SI, Tony Khan revealed that in 2025, he felt he had gotten too collaborative, a mistake he made throughout the early days of the corporate. After realizing this, he has made a degree to place issues collectively himself.
“Because you requested in regards to the focus and a number of the tales and placing the TV reveals collectively, yeah, I undoubtedly felt like I had had a great strategy that I’d refined in 2020, and attempting to be good, attempting to hear and be collaborative. I feel I had gotten too collaborative, and it was sort of the identical mistake I made at the start. And it actually helped in the long run of 2024, going into 2025, I simply mentioned, ‘Okay, I am gonna put the define for all the things collectively myself. I am gonna remove the conferences between reveals, and I’ll put all the things collectively myself between reveals.”
Tony Khan then reiterated that collaboration was by no means a nasty factor, as this was one among AEW’s belongings. He defined that this was about him coping with individuals, and he needed to focus solely on himself and the wrestlers, with them speaking immediately about issues as an alternative of getting it undergo others.
“After which I am going to are available in with the define of what I would like, quite than have a whole lot of collaborative conferences the place everyone chimes in what they assume we needs to be doing.’ I don’t need to describe ever being collaborative is a nasty factor, as a result of the entire thing that makes AEW nice is collaboration. However the collaboration ought to in all probability, at its finest, be between me and the wrestlers, and dealing to seek out the very best path, and never having lots of people in the course of that.” [H/T Fightful]
Tony Khan posts tribute to Brodie Lee
The wrestling world misplaced Brodie Lee 5 years in the past, and AEW was lucky to have him with them as a pivotal determine earlier than his passing. Tony Khan has simply taken to X/Twitter to publish a tribute message to the wrestling icon and urged others at all times to maintain him of their hearts.
“5 years in the past in the present day, the world misplaced Jon Huber, an excellent man identified to followers as Mr. Brodie Lee + Luke Harper. His household got here first, his loving spouse Amanda and their sons Brodie + Nolan. He liked wrestling, + he was an incredible wrestler. He liked you followers. Please hold him in your hearts.”
Tony Khan has had a bumpy experience as AEW’s President, however his firm is flourishing now and is arguably the second-largest promotion on the planet. They’ve additionally had an excellent yr, and it appears like their momentum is not going anyplace.
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Edited by Enzo Curabo
