Tony Khan recently appeared as a guest on the Swerve City podcast for an in-depth interview covering all things pro wrestling.
During the discussion, the AEW and ROH President spoke about it being a challenge to manage a large talent roster, the rise of talents like Max Caster and Anthony Bowens of The Acclaimed, as well as how fans believe in AEW.
Featured below are some of the highlights from the interview where he touches on these topics with his thoughts.
On how it is a challenge to manage such a large talented roster: “I think a big thing is right now we have so many great stars and there’s only three hours of TV time in AEW. So it’s a challenge, but I think we use other great outlets at our disposal like AEW Dark and AEW Elevation which are great shows.”
On the rise of talents like Max Caster and Anthony Bowens: “We’ve seen a lot of great wrestlers come to TV and they started on AEW Dark and they weren’t in prominent winning positions. We’ve seen people like Max Caster, Will Hobbs and actually Max Caster and Anthony Bowens worked separately on Dark and then ended up coming together as a team and a number of other people as well. It’s helped us enhance our women’s division. I think a lot of really quality people started wrestling there and got a lot of good reps in, and now they’ve become really solid TV wrestlers for us. So AEW Dark and Elevation have given us an outlet to grow. But really with three hours of TV and so many great stars on this roster, it is a challenge.”
On how fans need to believe that AEW will succeed: “In creating AEW, one thing I really believe, and it was part of my business plan for AEW is like, as a wrestling fan, you really need to not only believe in the star wrestlers, most importantly of all the great wrestling and the great wrestlers that you’re going to get from the company, but you need to believe in the company that it has a chance, like that it’s a big legitimate thing like around the world.”
Check out the complete interview at YouTube.com. H/T to WrestlingNews.co for transcribing the above quotes.
