Backstage Update on How Warner Bros Discovery Viewed AEW Prior To Skydance Merger

As noted before, Paramount Skydance officially completed their acquisition deal for Warner Bros Discovery and announced a new merged company called Skydance this past October. WBD under Skydance is the current media broadcast partner of AEW.

Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp reported in a recent Q&A article that he does not know how Skydance currently feels about AEW due to they have not developed contacts at the newly formed company as of yet.

Sapp reported that his sources stated that prior to the merger deal, WBD officials were happy with AEW’s ratings numbers for their shows as of a couple of months ago and were “touting” them internally.

Sapp also reported that those on the AEW side of the partnership are currently hoping that WBD’s excitement about their numbers carry over to Skydance. Sapp also reported that it is currently too early to determine if that will be the case.

AEW CEO Tony Khan had revealed this past October that he has already had meetings with Skydance executives about AEW’s status with the newly merged company and he came out of those meetings being “extremely happy.”