Tony Khan – 'I Really Need To Focus On AEW, Not What The Competition Is Doing'
06/30/2024 04:33 PM
During a recent appearance on Wrestling Observer Radio to promote tonight’s AEW x NJPW: Forbidden Door 2024 pay-per-view event, AEW President Tony Khan commented on AEW’s TV numbers, David Zaslav's support of All Elite Wrestling, and not being focused on what the competition is doing these days.
You can check out some highlights from the interview below:
On David Zaslav's support of AEW: "That's a really good thing for the company to have, is the support of the head of the studio, one of the top, most powerful people in Hollywood who loves AEW, loves what we're doing. And has gotten a look under the hood of AEW also. Very publicly, it's not a secret, that they've also seen what WWE is doing and analyzed it, done the comps, and I think there's a very glass-half-full story to that which is they stuck with us and they want to be with us. They had a chance to make a deal with someone else and they didn't."
On AEW's TV numbers: "We've had historically really strong numbers and maintain really strong numbers in TV and that is the thing we need to do is keep doing what we're doing because the numbers we have are numbers people in TV would kill to have."
On not being focused on what the competition is doing: "And I really need to focus on doing good shows for AEW, not about what the competition is doing. I think that in this case our competition going out ahead of us and getting good media rights deals was a positive for us and actually is good for us because we have very good historical comps, and these comps are very favorable for us. So that's one thing I've done, a ton of market research and retained top analysts and data scientists and am looking at this stuff."
On AEW's ratings: "Most TV shows would kill for our ratings and demos. And in sports, we skew really young."
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