AEW: Tony Khan on AEW All Out 2025 Taking Place in Toronto Being “Toronto Is One of the Greatest Wrestling Cities”, AEW Backstage Morale Reportedly Has Improved Over Recent Months, More News

Tony Khan Comments on AEW All Out 2025 Taking Place in Toronto Being “Toronto Is One of the Greatest Wrestling Cities”

As noted before, AEW recently announced that this year’s All Out event will be taking place on September 20th at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

In a recent interview with the Toronto Sun, AEW CEO Tony Khan gave his thoughts about Toronto being the host of this year’s All Out event and Toronto being one of the greatest wrestling cities.

“Toronto is one of the greatest wrestling cities on the planet. It’s a very special place. When I was in college, I went on spring break to Toronto to watch wrestling and it’s some place I really love and it’s – to me, what we call in America a Mount Rushmore city – it’s one of the real crown jewel cities. It’s definitely, to me, one of my top four pro wrestling cities on the planet.

I think there’s great wrestling fans all over Ontario. We’ve done great shows in London, Ottawa, Hamilton, and in particular, in Toronto. And in different venues. We’ve had great experience at the Coca-Cola Coliseum but certainly ScotiaBank Arena is a mecca for us and a mecca for pro wrestling and I’m so excited about bringing AEW All Out back to ScotiaBank Arena this year for All Out 2025 on September 20.”

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AEW Backstage Morale Reportedly Has Improved Over Recent Months

Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp reported in a recent Q&A article that his sources stated that backstage morale within AEW has improved over the last few months.

Those spoken to reportedly stated that one big reason for the improved morale has been due to less division taking place backstage within the company of late.

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AEW News & Notes

AEW recently released a new AEW Timelines video titled “FEEL THE WRATH! The Evolution of Harley Cameron.”

The United States Tennis Association recently announced that the Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, New York will be undergoing around $800 million in renovations. These renovations were stated to be completed by 2027 and will result in the seating capacity being reduced by a few hundred seats when finished. In wrestling history, this venue was the host location for AEW’s Grand Slam events from 2021 to 2024.

As noted before, this past Saturday’s AEW Collision Beach Break 2025 show featured the show ending 30 minutes early due to serious technical issues with the feed on TNT’s end. The VOD version of this episode was released in its entirety on the TNT Drama app this past Monday while the MAX version had yet to be uploaded. In an update on Tuesday, this episode was released in its entirety on MAX as well.

This past Sunday’s 2025 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs Game 7 between the Florida Panthers and Toronto Maple Leafs in Toronto, Ontario, Canad featured Adam Copeland among those shown in attendance. Copeland was mic’d up for the game and did not have much to celebrate over the Maple Leafs lost 6 to 1 and extended their winless Game 7s streak to seven games in a row.

In a recent interview with the AEW Unrestricted podcast, Julia Hart gave her thoughts about how she had learned a lot from Mercedes Mone from their Women’s Owen Hart Foundation Cup match at this past April’s AEW Dynasty 2025 event. Hart stated “She (Mercedes Mone) was so amazing. I learned so much from her. I can’t wait to wrestle her again. After that I felt so excited about wrestling.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

Mark Briscoe recently celebrated on Tuesday on Twitter the 25th anniversary of him and his brother Jay’s wrestling career debuts. Briscoe stated “Today is 25 years since me and my brother debuted. @jaybriscoe84 Happy 25 years dawg. Quarter century and still grindin’ #demboys.“

Will Ospreay recently reflected on Twitter about how 2019 was the year he finally “understood the assignment” and what he wanted to achieve for his wrestling career for why that was his breakout year as a star. Ospreay stated “Little trip down memory lane! 2019 was the year I really understood the assignment and what I wanted to achieve. Felt like an animal that year. The fact it got made into this dope MV is crazy [made by Sarcastic] https://odysee.com/@FightMVClub:3/Will-Ospreay-2019-MV:7 @OdyseeTeam“

As noted before, Darby Allin successfully reached the summit of Mount Everest on Sunday for his climb of the mountain. Allin recently reflected on Instagram about his climb stating “I didn’t know shit about mountains and was going to go to this low rent place when I googled how to climb Mount Everest years ago and Diamond Dallas Page said fuck that and put me in touch with the right people to do this journey the right way so thx Dallas!!” WWE Hall of Famer Diamond Dallas Page responded on Instagram stating “HUGE congrats to my boy @darbyallin on his amazing accomplishment! And thanks for throwing up the Diamond Cutter at the top of the world!“

In a recent interview with the Lightweights Podcast with Joe Vulpls, Harley Cameron gave her thoughts about her experience working with Tony Khan in AEW. Cameron stated “Tony is literally the most kind, approachable, wonderful boss. He is someone who makes you feel comfortable with communicating with him. He’s always so enthusiastic. He’s always there watching the matches. Genuinely, he’s always there watching. Afterwards, he always communicates with us all and thanks us all. He’s a really great guy. If I ever felt like I needed to talk to him, he definitely allows us to know he’s the kind of guy you can talk to. He’s a really great guy. He’s awesome. I think how cool it is to have such a cool boss.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with the Busted Open Radio podcast, KJ Orso, former Fuego Del Sol in AEW and the indies, gave his thoughts about how he had pitched an idea to AEW CEO Tony Khan at one point for him to be unmasked during his time in AEW. Orso stated “Like I said, I tweeted it out a couple of days ago that I’ve been plagued by the thought of becoming K.J. Orso for years. I pitched it to Tony Khan at one point to take my mask off in AEW. Just throwing things at the wall. I knew that, versatility-wise, I needed to showcase and show off a different side of me and I got text messages from every big name that you can imagine. Hitting my phone up, ‘Is this really the end?’ ‘Thank you so much for all you’ve done.’ ‘We’re gonna miss you, man.’ ‘I hope this is all a work.’ ‘I hope this isn’t real.’ People at the top of the industry all the way to the bottom. So many colleagues that I’ve made over the years, so many fans. Just being truly grateful, even though they didn’t know what was coming. We were entering an unknown time. I feel like everyone had good things to say. It’s kind of like seeing your funeral, being at your funeral all at once. But, we live in the crazy world of professional wrestling where everyone thinks that everything is a work and some people might have guessed that the next step was coming.” Orso also gave his thoughts about the reason why his unmasking did not happen in AEW. Orso stated “I’ve said this in the past. I don’t think Tony Khan ever had any true plans for me. I think the fanfare and the respect I earned from the locker room almost forced his hand to signing me… I am an outside puzzle piece that he just fits in when he wants. ‘You could do some stuff with Sammy. Cody Rhodes really likes you. When Cody wants stuff with you, we’ll do stuff with you and Cody.’ But there was no real plan for me ever. So I’m throwing a thousand pitches at the wall. I put out a video last year where I pitch to join a tag team with Lance Archer. Let me and him have this fun, little dynamic. I pitched me and Sammy (Guevara) becoming a tag team at one point. I pitched going to Japan for DDT just to freshen up my scenery and do something different, and then I pitched taking this mask off and doing something different. I really do feel that I had become a lovable loser in a sense and there’s a stench I’ve been dying to get rid of since leaving AEW. I feel like I have been doing some of the best work of my career in GCW. Some of the best matches. I constantly would have fans walk up to me after a show and be like, ‘Oh my God, I didn’t know you were capable of all that. I didn’t know you were that good. I didn’t know that when given some time, how good a storyteller and a wrestler you are’ and I have a burning desire to showcase that to the world and you know, I get it. I was a smaller guy at the time. I’m a Southern man wearing a mask. It’s kind of stereotypical but it’s not normal in wrestling to see someone like me find success so I put on the weight, I really honed in on my speaking ability and I busted my ass in the ring and I feel like Tony didn’t see that and even though I’ve been picking up steam in the past years, a casual wrestling fan is not seeing that. There’s so many hours of television on television right now. Each week, just between AEW and WWE alone. So how many casual fans are watching the TNAs, the New Japans, the MLWs, the NWAs? Also, Game Changer Wrestling. It’s really difficult to make buzz and no matter how many steps forward I feel like I was taking, I feel like not the right eyes were seeing it and so I needed to do something different and this was that something different and if Tony Khan didn’t see it and the world hadn’t seen it yet, it was my time right now. It was no better time after the 11 years I spent as Fuego Del Sol to really switch things up, flip things on their head and flip the script and get this fresh coat of paint that I’ve been desperately wanting.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)