AEW President Tony Khan spoke with TV Insider on various topics, including working with others and collaborating with talent to formulate the company’s creative.
Khan said, “I love working with talented people, I really do enjoy the creative collaboration, it’s a really exciting time for AEW, we’ve been on a strong run of shows, we kicked off 2025 with a very successful debut on Max and had some great shows to launch this new era of simulcasting. I love pro wrestling so much, I’m very focused on the shows each week, seeing some of our greatest stars return to the fold and adding some very exciting stories. There have been stars who have been there from the beginning and flourishing right now, in particular the return of Kenny Omega, there was also Will Ospreay and Ricochet and many others, I think it’s a great mix of some of AEW’s greatest names ever.
One of the great things about AEW is our wrestlers seizing an opportunity, I believe AEW is where the best wrestle, when they latch on to something special, it’s amazing to see how far they’ll take it. I’m very impressed by both a long-time star and former AEW World Champion Swerve Strickland and Ricochet, who is a relative newcomer in AEW and arrived on a big stage at All In: London. I offered a new opportunity for Ricochet in recent months and am so impressed how he has seized it. In November, when we announced the Continental Classic participants and upcoming matches, I made an opening for Ricochet. What he did with it was very impressive, I thought Ricochet had one of the strongest stories coming out of the Continental Classic with Swerve Strickland. There are a lot of times it’s possible to create specific opportunities for wrestlers to thrive, but it’s really a testament to the wrestlers and their talent when they seize those opportunities and score big. I love collaborating with talent and giving them those opportunities and trying to take the best ideas, my own ideas or suggestions that people make along the way, either the staff or wrestler’s themselves and trying to build the best version of it.”
