AEW: AEW Teaming with White Castle for New Meal Combo Collaboration, Tony Khan Thanked Sports Illustrated for AEW Success in 2025 S.I. Awards, MVP on Differences in AEW & WWE Booking Approach for Shows

AEW Teaming with White Castle for New Meal Combo Collaboration

AEW announced that they have recently collaborated with White Castle for a new AEW-themed meal combo called “AEW Bacon Brawl Combo.”

This new limited-time meal combo was stated to be arriving nationwide starting on December 27th.

It was also announced that a new custom limited edition AEW x White Castle luchador mask will be released on January 7th.

White Castle and All Elite Wrestling Team Up for the New “AEW Bacon Brawl Combo!”

The limited-time combo is available nationwide at @WhiteCastle locations starting Dec. 27. And don't miss a custom limited edition AEW x White Castle luchador mask coming Jan. 7! pic.twitter.com/bKMc5XDKhh

— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) December 19, 2025

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Tony Khan Thanked Sports Illustrated for AEW Success in 2025 Sports Illustrated Awards

As noted before, Sports Illustrated recently released their 2025 Sports Illustrated Awards. AEW took the most awards at 10 including both Male and Female Wrestle of the Year awards.

AEW CEO Tony Khan recently reflected on Twitter about Sports Illustrated recognizing AEW in their year-end awards and congratulated both the awards winners and Team AEW for the hard-earned awards this year.

“On behalf of AEW, thank you fans who watch AEW, and thanks to the journalists’ panel that voted @AEW as top company + recognized 8 top AEW stars, with AEW winning a total of 10 @SInow Wrestling Awards in 2025!

Congratulations award winners + team AEW on these hard-earned awards!”

On behalf of AEW, thank you fans who watch AEW, and thanks to the journalists’ panel that voted @AEW as top company + recognized 8 top AEW stars,
with AEW winning a total of
10 @SInow Wrestling Awards in 2025!

Congratulations award winners + team AEW on these hard-earned awards! pic.twitter.com/FYqy9aEiXs

— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) December 18, 2025

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MVP Comments on Differences in AEW & WWE Booking Approach for Shows and Tony Khan Being “Better Person All Around” Than Triple H

Q101’s Case Lowe held a recent interview with MVP. One of the topics discussed included MVP’s thoughts about the differences between AEW and WWE’s booking approach for shows and his belief that AEW CEO Tony Khan is a “better person all around” than WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque.

“Tony, he has his vision that he wants, and he works with the talent and allows a lot more input from the talent into what creative path is going to happen. Whereas ‘the nose’ (Triple H), he is a little bit more dictatorial, emphasis on dick. It’s, ‘This is what we’re doing, this is how it’s going to be, and this is what I want.’

Whereas Tony could say, ‘Well, this is what I want,’ and you can say, ‘Okay, Tony, but what about if we put this on it?’ and Tony invites the input. With that guy (Triple H), there’s only a handful of people that I would say are allowed to have that kind of input.

I think Tony, I’m just going to be blunt, is a better human being, a better person all around than this guy. So it’s definitely a better person to work for and a much better working environment.

When I was (in WWE), you did have a lot of people who were really concerned about their future because, at any given time, you were gone on a whim, and we saw it happen all the time. Tony doesn’t operate that way.”

MVP also gave his thoughts denying the online rumors of him not liking “Speedball” Mike Bailey.

“That whole thing was preposterous, that ‘MVP doesn’t like Mike Bailey.’ I don’t have a problem with Mike. He’s one of the nicest guys around. I don’t know where that came from.”

MVP also gave his thoughts about the online rumors about Hurt Syndicate refusing to lose to certain teams in AEW and also denied those rumors being true.

“Bobby and Shelton could destroy everybody. In terms of how we approach a match, when you have smaller guys, I just try to explain to certain people that there’s psychology. You should be chopping down the tree. It’s not a 50/50 match.

Somehow somebody got this idea that the Hurt Syndicate don’t want to lose to anybody, which is bulls–t, because we’ve lost to people. But there’s psychology, there’s a way to do it, and we had great matches with Jet Speed and Speedball.

I got a lot of respect for the guy, he’s a tremendous athlete and loves what he does.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com