Tony Khan Names His New “Four Pillars of AEW” Among Newer AEW Signings

AEW had previously named MJF, Sammy Guevara, Darby Allin, and “Jungle” Jack Perry as their “Four Pillars” of the company which lead to a storyline feud between all four over which one was the best pillar that culminated at Double or Nothing 2023 in May of 2023.

A recent episode of Q93’s Morning Q Crew radio show featured AEW CEO Tony Khan as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Khan’s thoughts about who he considers to be the new pillars of the AEW roster from the company’s new talent signings in recent years.

“Well, that’s a great question. It’s tricky because it’s somewhat in the eye of the beholder. You know, you could ask 100 fans to pick four pillars and they might have 99 different answers. In this case, there are so many great young wrestlers. If I was to pick from a young group right now that has come in in recent years, I would say, of the new arrivals, you’d have Thekla, Kevin Knight, I think Kyle Fletcher, and looking up and down the roster, I mean, Mercedes Mone.

Really, when I look at the AEW stars, we had a great roster at the very beginning and we’ve brought in great free agents as we’ve gone on that have come in in recent years. So those would be four great people that have come into AEW in recent years that are now very important in the company.”

These are the new AEW pillars – straight from Tony Khan.

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Thekla is the current AEW Women’s World Champion and Knight is the current TNT Champion while Mone is a former TBS Champion and Fletcher is a former TNT Champion.

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com