All Elite Wrestling President Tony Khan was a recent guest on Q101’s Brian & Kenzie Morning Show . When asked about the ongoing media rights negotiations with Warner Bros Discovery, Khan said they are on the verge of the most important deal the company will ever make.
“Right now is the most important time ever in AEW,” Tony Khan said. “We’re on the verge of the most important deal we’ll ever make, this upcoming media rights, and it’s been great working with Warner Brothers Discovery on the future.
“For all these years, we’ve had so much great experience with Warner Brothers Discovery, and now, under the leadership of David Zaslav, the company, for us, the connection, the things we’ve been able to do, I think it’s getting stronger and stronger.”
AEW’s great success on pay-per-view
Khan would go on to point out the great success that AEW has had recently in the pay-per-view business, as the company has gone from four pay-per-view events to ten in the last five years.
“I think now, over five years, it’s really been building to this point where AEW’s going to jump into the media rights and be a very profitable, successful company that has lived up to every expectation we ever could have had because we’ve done so many amazing things in this years. We’ve had all these amazing pay-per-view records,” Tony Khan said. “We’ve really come in and we’ve done pay-per-view numbers, whether adjusted or straight-up, head-to-head, very strong compared to the last few years of WCW, and I think that’s really a success story.
“I think pay-per-views are really fun, but it’s a really interesting business point that our business on pay-per-view has continued to get stronger. This year’s been great for us, we’ve had some huge events, including Revolution, which was one of our biggest pay-per-views ever.” [H/T: Fightful ]
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