Kyle Fletcher on His Relationship With Tony Khan in AEW, How He Handles Negative Comments About Him On Social Media, & AEW Expanding Their PPV Events Schedule and Him Being In Favor of More PPV Events Added

The Knockturnal held a recent interview with AEW International Champion Kyle Fletcher. One of the topics discussed included Fletcher’s thoughts about his current working relationship with AEW CEO Tony Khan in AEW.

“Yeah, it really depends. Tony’s really cool, and I think at the level that we’re at now, we have a very good friendship relationship outside of just wrestling itself. So our conversations could be anything from just talking about what our weekends were like to… you know, nitty gritty of like, ‘okay, what do you want from me today? What do you want from this segment of this match? What do you want to see from me?’ When we’re talking about stuff, it’s ‘okay, how do you see me reacting to this? What kind of camera shot do you want the end of this segment to be?’ So, you know, it can get as detailed as that, or it can be as laid back as, you know, well, this funny thing happened the other day. Oh, look at this funny video of my cat. You know, we have a pretty good relationship at this point, which is nice.”

Fletcher also gave his thoughts about how he handles negative comments about him on social media.

“Of course. I think it’s- the main thing is knowing who you are as a person and not letting the opinions of strangers on the internet affect how you view yourself. I think I’m definitely partial to, you know, seeing a negative comment or if like, you know, something comes out and then there’s a bunch of negative comments, it’s hard for sure. It’s a hard thing to read. It’s a hard thing to go through. But I think it comes back to, you know, I know who I am. I know what’s important to me. I know what my values are, and as long as I stay true to that, then nobody, especially people I don’t know- Like, if it’s somebody who who’s opinion, I value and respect and I love them as a person. I will absolutely listen to their negative criticism, but you know, the internet is literally strangers trying to tell me who I am and how I live and like what’s right and wrong, and I don’t think they know- they don’t know me, they don’t know who I am. So once you can make that distinction, it’s, it becomes a lot easier, you know it’s kind of at this point, it’s water off ducks back to me kind of.”

Fletcher also gave his thoughts about AEW adding more pay-per-view events to their yearly schedule and him being in favor of AEW expanding their PPV events schedule.

“Yeah, man. This year, we upped the schedule a lot, which is… Personally, I think our pay-per-views are out of this world. I think we knock it out of the park every single time, so… To me, the more pay-per-views, the better. The more chances I get to go out there and do what I do on a big stage, I’m never going to complain about that. Redemption this Sunday, just another opportunity for me to go out there and show that I’m the best professional wrestler in the world. I get to get in there with Bandido, who, I mean, all of 2025 was regarded as one of the best in-ring professionals in the world. I’d like to say I was in that conversation as well. So I think first time ever singles match, everybody banned from ringside, AEW International Championship on the line. I think it’s got the makings for a pretty big match.”

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