Tony Khan has reasoned why AEW needed so as to add more titles, pointing to the corporate’s growth as a significant factor.
Khan recently announced the addition of one other title, the National Championship, a call that is been criticized by the likes of Bully Ray and Nic Nemeth. Within the AEW Full Gear media call, Khan explained why it was needed for him to make that call.
“I believe it is vital to take a look at the content that any wrestling promotion is producing and what the model for the business of that company is. For AEW, the revenue is primarily driven from TV and pay-per-view, and we produce many hours of TV and pay-per-view. We also produce quite a lot of live events, and we produce over 100 shows per yr and a number of other hours per week. That is different than the start of AEW because firstly of AEW, we only had two hours of television, and I had no association in anyway with Ring of Honor and definitely was not the owner and promoter of that company,” he said.
Khan argued that he hasn’t added more titles to ROH, barring the 2 women’s titles – Women’s World Television Championship and Women’s Pure Championship, which he has done to grow the ladies’s division of the brand. While discussing AEW, he said that the corporate has grown and adjusted because it began, noting that AEW now produces way more content, which he said made adding more titles needed.
“With ROH, I did inherit their championships and have expanded the ladies’s championships in ROH,” Khan stated. “In AEW, the corporate has modified and we have added Collision, which is a hugely necessary a part of the AEW weekly TV, and the lifeblood of the corporate is the AEW Warner Brothers partnership of which Collision is a big part, and we’re an organization now that produces twice as many hours of TV and twice as many pay-per-views as we did after we began. “
He pointed to AEW being incredibly successful now and the way the promotion’s TV rights are currently far higher than what it was even last yr.