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TONY KHAN TALKS WWE COUNTER-PROGRAMMING RAMPAGE TOMORROW, HOW THE NHL DID IN DYNAMITE'S USUAL TIMESLOT AND MORE AEW NOTES

Interesting to note that last night's TNT broadcast of the National Hockey League garnered 817,000 overnight viewers, less than AEW Dynamite usually does in that timeslot.  Dynamite will be displaced to Saturdays this and next weekend.

AEW President Tony Khan was interviewed by The New York Post promoting this weekend's TV shows.  On WWE adding more time to Smackdown and counter-programming AEW Rampage, Khan commented, "In wrestling, we’re worth more against each other and we’re better off against each other. I believe there is greater value in the wrestling market when we’re fighting and people want to see competition in wrestling. I think it’s one of the reasons people lost interest in wrestling was because there was not true competition for 20 years. Now with AEW in the mix and competition back in wrestling, I think there are more people excited about wrestling than there have been in a long time with the free-agent movement and good shows. At the end of the day, it has to be good shows. Through the 90s there were a lot of great wrestling shows. Every week, every month there would be great stories and great matches and you couldn’t miss it. I think it’s starting to get that way again."

On WWE running that extra 30 minute commercial free on FS1, Khan said, "I’ve coined a phrase which is WYW, watch your wrestling. Whatever people what to watch, I want them to watch it. Unfortunately, if we are on at the same time it’s harder for people to watch their wrestling, at least live. We can take the commercials out of it. If you want to take the commercials out of it, I can do that too. It doesn’t seem very civil but I have more money than they do so I can afford to do that longer than they can. But that’s how we make money at the end of the day, so I was surprised when they took those out."

Khan was also on Z100 (a massive radio station in NYC) today:

Heels star Stephen Amell will be the guest on Brandi Rhodes' YouTube show tonight.

Taz and Hook were hanging out with rap star and F*** That's Delicious host Action Bronson:

Evil Uno released the following blog:

 

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