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AEW President Tony Khan spoke with the New York Post to discuss this Wednesday's Fight for the Fallen at this link.
Highlights:
Fight for the Fallen: "We chose these originally in March because at the beginning of the coronavirus we were looking to identify charities where we could make a big impact in our community right away. So rather than wait for “Fight for the Fallen,” we got out in front of it and (my family and I) made a million-dollar donation in March to these two charities because they both made a major direct impact on fighting the spread of the virus and also the effect of the virus and the closing of shelters that have made life a lot more challenging for everybody here. I know the T-shirt had been the No. 1 selling T-shirt on Pro Wrestling Tees and is doing well and we got some good traffic in (on donations)."
Mike Tyson's future: "I like Mike a lot. Mike did a great job on Double of Nothing and I think there was a great amount of publicity and the show did very well. I have to attribute something to Mike’s presence there. I really think the world of Mike and I’d love to have Mike back if we could ever work it out. There’s a lot of great matches out there in the future, but if we could ever put Mike and Chris together and do Tyson vs. Jericho, I think it would be great."
Suspending Jimmy Havoc and Sammy Guevara: "I suspended them both. Very different situations. I just needed to address both. We are addressing both. I think Jimmy really needed the counseling. If and when he were to wrestle again, the most important thing for himself and everybody here is that he sought treatment and counseling. When he asked for that help, we’re gonna help him. With Sammy, I think the right thing to do was to suspend him. The comments he made were horrible. I can’t defend them. I can’t even comment on them because they’re unspeakably bad. He has also done a different kind of counseling and he’s in a different kind of counseling and it’s a different kind of coaching. Everybody here, male and female pretty much up and down the roster we talked to felt like Sammy had no history of this kind of behavior. Really people were shocked Sammy had said that. Certainly, it’s an old clip. I think the video was four years old. I had never seen that video and it’s something I would have addressed with him before Sammy started here. I never had an opportunity to address it because I didn’t know it existed and neither did anybody else or if they did nobody told us. For both of them, we really needed to address the situation before talking about what to do in the future afterward. I didn’t want to rush into making a decision on either person, so it felt like until I had all the facts suspending was the right thing to do. Then I could make whatever the right decision is. I knew the right decision wasn’t for those guys to just come to TV and not address this stuff."
Khan also noted that PAC has not returned yet due to the quarantine restrictions set for those traveling internationally.
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