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TONY KHAN DISCUSSES PROJECTIONS FOR AEW IN 2021, A POTENTIAL NEW JAPAN ALLIANCE AND MORE

Tony Khan did an interview with TSN. Some highlights: 

A partnership with New Japan Pro Wrestling: "With New Japan, it’s been a little more one-sided where we’ve sent people there and I haven’t really had people from New Japan show up on my TV [programming] yet. I’d like to see more of a two-sided relationship there because I’m honestly one of the easiest people to work with in wrestling. We’ve worked with NWA, we’ve worked with AAA and we’ve sent people to New Japan. I think with Harold being gone, I don’t know if it’s going to be easier, but I have a feeling it might be."

AEW serving as a hub for other promotions: "I’d like for AEW to be the centre point of the wrestling world where all these big stories culminate. So I’m really open to working with anybody if the situation makes sense for us."

New programming on TNT: "It’s going to launch in 2021. We’ve worked it out with TNT. It’s 100 per cent going to launch in 2021. I don’t have the exact date yet, but I would look out for it soon and it’s right around the corner."

Projections for 2021: "In one year, I would love for us to do a pay-per-view that is our biggest number yet. Every pay-per-view we’ve done, we’ve been really happy with the number. The chart is out there – I’m not 100 per cent sure that they’re all going to be accurate, but they’re pretty close and you see that our numbers are the best pay-per-view numbers anybody in the business has done in the last 20 years outside of WWE. I’d like to hit another record high. In 2020, with all the challenges everybody faced and as tough a year as it’s been for the economy, our pay-per-views have all been up from 2019. Double or Nothing and All Out are bigger than Double or Nothing and All Out from the year before and Revolution was one of our biggest successes. If Full Gear [did] well, I’ll be very happy and then in 2021, if we launch this third hour of television, I’ll be very happy. If the pay-per-views come in higher in 2021 than in 2020, that would be incredible and I’d like to see us hit new highs for Dynamite."

 

 

 

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