Tony Khan has shared a bold prediction for his promotion’s upcoming future.
With help from Kenny Omega, Cody Rhodes, and The Young Bucks, Khan developed and started All Elite Wrestling as a direct competition to WWE’s mainstream pro-wrestling market. Since its inception in 2019, Khan’s wrestling promotion has become one of the industry’s biggest names.
Earlier this year, Tony Khan had announced the promotion’s multi-year deal with WBD, and the latest features that came alongside it. Also set to enter the streaming space alongside WWE’s Netflix deal next year, Khan recently shared his big future prediction for the Jacksonville-based promotion.
In an interview with Case Lowe from Brian & Kenzie on Q101, Khan discussed his promotion’s viewership and Max debut.
It was great to be able to into November with Full Gear, this event that fans love every year, get fans excited, play the November Rain video and get people back into that groove. So for us, I do think it’s important to look at how the universe changes. Things will change again next year because a lot of the audience will be exposed to AEW for the first time, there’s people that don’t have cable or satellite anymore, and they mostly have cut the cord, and they stream, and having AEW live on Max, it’s gonna open so many new fans up to the experience for the first time ever.
We’ll be available in almost twice as many homes as we are now starting in January. It’s pretty amazing. It’s gonna be a really exciting time. I hope we can make some new wrestling fans and new AEW fans when AEW goes to Max.”
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Hoping to gain more audiences from the streaming move, fans and critics can only wait to see what is in store for Khan’s brainchild.
Tony Khan Hopeful For First-Ever AEW Show In This Foreign Country
Based in Jacksonville, Florida, the promotion has had two international shows in the United Kingdom and one planned event in Australia. However, in the same interview with Case Lowe from Brian & Kenzie on Q101, Khan addressed his promotion’s partnership with CMLL, and his eagerness to host an AEW show in Mexico.
If I could go anywhere in Mexico and work with anyone in Mexico, I would love to go to Arena Mexico and work with CMLL and bring AEW there for the first time ever. It would be amazing, and I think Salvador would be open to having us there.
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