In 2019, Tony Khan kicked off All Elite Wrestling alongside his Executive Vice Presidents and have become a professional wrestling booker with none prior skilled experience, and by some means the fledgling promotion was spoken of in the identical conversations as WWE. Despite this, Khan’s booking has been criticized by each fans and wrestling veterans alike, but six years into the industry, he believes he’s grown as a booker.
“I put the shows together and this 12 months, I feel like, I have been especially hands-on about every episode, every segment, the best way I used to be at Every day’s Place within the Pandemic,” Khan explained during an interview on “The Ariel Helwani Show.” Khan then recalled that he vowed to step back and have a look at booking the best way he did early on and decided to stop doing things he knew would not work even after being pressured. “It’s like a eating regimen. You do your best to stick with it – no one’s perfect – but infrequently I’d do something against my higher judgment; but I kinda told myself: stop doing things against my higher judgment.”
Despite this, Khan claims he does take heed to ideas and again praised those that work closely with him in running AEW. “It’s evolving and changing and the one consistent thing is there’s one person who does all of the shows, and it’s me!” he added, noting that across the 12 months, there won’t ever be a single one that attends all AEW’s shows aside from him.
Tony Khan admits that folks like Bryan Danielson help him backstage
To further paint the image of how AEW is run, Tony Khan again brought up that he’s helped by many great people back stage, but asserted that unlike everyone else, because the President, he’ll be at every show and have an insight no one else does. “I actually have great individuals who could contribute ideas, like, what everybody from Bryan Danielson – who’s an all-time legend in wrestling but additionally has some great ideas – and different people on the staff,” he said. “It’s an awesome group of ladies and men, but amongst all them, the one one that goes to each TV is me.”
“So, I actually have a reasonably consistent idea of what I’d wish to do, but additionally, whoever’s within the room of coaches and staff of that day? I’ll check with them,” Khan added. Interestingly, he then compared backstage AEW to a scene in “Ghostbusters” where the characters Ray and Winston were driving in a automotive, which made him at all times think that they were an unlikely pair but still needed to work together, and in AEW that is the case too. “Inside every group of individuals, there’s subgroups and that is not at all times those that you think that if you see the people walk and stand together,” he expressed.
Khan claimed that just like the aforementioned scene, he has different people in every show and has a very good feel for AEW by now. “I feel like 2025 specifically, we have done a extremely good job of listening to the fans and putting on a extremely good show!” Khan added.
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