Tony Khan on His Praise of Jon Moxley’s Backstage Contributions To AEW, Hoe He Spent “Nearly A Year” Working On AEW’s First TV Deal & It Being “The Biggest Hurdle”, & Wanting To Continue To Bring AEW Events To Australia

Wide World of Sports held a recent interview with AEW CEO Tony Khan. One of the topics discussed included Khan’s thoughts about his praise of Jon Moxley and his contributions backstage to AEW over the years.

“I have a great group of people in each of the sports – I have great executives, coaches and people to talk to and lean on. The thing with wrestling that’s very different is there’s no off-season. We have a great group, but I’m generally the only person who comes to every show. In recent years, [star wrestler] Jon Moxley is doing a great job backstage and has been at everything … but I have been at every AEW show since the beginning. It’s a lot of travel, but I love it.”

Khan also gave his thoughts about him securing AEW’s first television deal with Warner Bros Discovery being the biggest hurdle he faced and how he spent nearly a year to secure it.

“The biggest hurdle was to make the TV deal – I reached a point in early-2019 where I had signed the wrestlers, but didn’t have a deal, I had been working on the TV portion of it for nearly a year, but I had got into April and still didn’t have a deal. Reaching a point where it became a reality was very challenging. It’s hard to launch … but things have grown so quickly.”

Khan also gave his thoughts about him wanting to continue to bring AEW events to Australia and his belief the company has “something really special” with events there.

“I absolutely want to come back to Australia. We’ve had incredible events with the fans in both Sydney and Brisbane. I think we’ve built a great audience, our wrestlers are so popular and some of the top stars in AEW are actually from Australia. Given what a great wrestling country it is and how many awesome stars we have in AEW from there, I think we’ve got something really special.”