As PWMania.com previously reported, AEW President Tony Khan will make a big announcement on next week’s episode of AEW Dynamite.
This comes after WWE dominated the news last week, with The Rock joining the TKO Board of Directors, signing a deal with Netflix for RAW in January 2025, the Vince McMahon lawsuit, and changes to the WrestleMania 40 lineup. There was also a Royal Rumble.
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While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer stated that the announcement was supposed to be made last week on AEW Collision, a show that competed with the Royal Rumble but was delayed due to the McMahon lawsuit news.
It should be noted that Collision’s ratings dropped significantly when compared to WWE’s second-largest PLE of the year.
Meltzer stated, “And they were originally, I don’t know if you know this or not, but they were originally going to make the announcement on Saturday [on Collision]. And then they realized that that was not probably the best day to make the announcement because with the Vince [McMahon] stuff, it’s like, no one’s gonna be talking about this. It’s better to do the announcement at a time when people will be talking about the announcement rather than get lost in the, you know, sleaziness of the Vince McMahon story that’s all over everywhere.”
(h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription)
