Words matter. These are the best Tony Khan Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
At my heart I love wrestling more than anything else.
A lot of what made ECW great was the work and we’re going to have the best caliber in ring stuff in the world.
I would like for everybody to be able to say that I’ve never lied to them.
The vast majority of the top 100 shows are NFL games in this country.
The wrestling community is a constant; its members are diverse, we are physically located on all corners of the planet, yet we are constantly connected.
I have been a fan of Dustin Rhodes my whole wrestling-fan life.
Wrestling fans are a community unlike most others. I’ve been a part of this community since I was 7 years old, and I can tell you that wresting fans see the world every day through a special lens.
It is the most important thing we can do to establish a promotion, is to establish the championship. It is what everyone is trying to obtain, how do you obtain the championship? By establishing a run of matches, a streak, by winning a big match, winning a title eliminator.
How can you question Chris Jericho’s work ethic?
Cody Rhodes and The Young Bucks had never done a show on television, yet they were able to draw a show with 11,000 people to suburban Chicago. Just based on word of mouth and through the love of wrestling they spread.
I urge everyone who believes in what we’re doing, or wants to believe in dreams coming true, to support AEW by spreading the word and passing the wrestling bug onto someone else.
Yeah, there are a couple of wrestling shows out there with very, very good production values in RAW and SmackDown, but I think we’re going to offer something completely different from what they offer, a very, very different kind of product that visually is going to look as good or better in a lot of ways.
At any given time, I have to be looking at different things constantly, and it involves a lot of flying, and it doesn’t involve much sleep.
I think a lot of wrestling companies probably function with one person who at the end of the day has to make calls and go over everything. But we’re a bunch of people working together, we have a system.
I don’t want to compare us to any other wrestling company. We’re AEW and we’re doing something very different.
I love the draft process. I love the regular season. I love preparing for the games. I just love football.
People ask me if I get nervous and I get a lot more nervous before a Jaguars or Fulham game. But I get more excited and have more fun at AEW than anything else.
With ‘Being the Elite’ you’ll see some of the most innovative stuff, but it’s going to be very different then the weekly TV show. But that’s by design and I want to keep it that way so you’ll have outlets to see different things.
I know AEW will be welcomed by wrestling fans here in the U.S. and throughout the world who are ready for something new and authentic. AEW will work hard to deliver on that promise.
Vince McMahon is one of my all time idols in terms of building a brand and sustaining a great company.
I think young people can spot when people believe what they are saying and when people aren’t believing what they are saying, and when I was a kid, I really did believe what Ric Flair and Randy Savage and Bret Hart said in their promos. I think there has to be some believability.
The reason that there is a lapsed fan is because the wrestling that people want to see isn’t out there, and it isn’t just one thing they are missing it is a lot of things that they are missing.
Instead of watching the World Series, I was watching Steve Austin versus Dustin Rhodes in a 15-minute Broadway for the WCW TV title at Halloween Havoc 1991.
Fans see the competition between wrestling companies, which is the one thing traditionally everyone has known is real.
I want people to tune into our show, looking forward to it all day, because of great matches.
The difference between football and baseball is that pretty much every possible situation in baseball has probably happened by now, maybe thousands of times over the years.
I don’t want people to think that this is just going to be great matches, there is going to be a lot of great matches. But it is also going to be some of the most entertaining guys in pro wrestling and these guys are going to be unleashed.
People can spot a phony and I think young people can spot a phony.
In my background in sports, I am huge believer in statistics and I think that’s one area where in wrestling we’ve seen some cool stuff get over. To me, I think there’s real opportunities to do some interesting things just in terms of building up athletes the way UFC has as legitimate competition.
People questioned if there was enough audience to sustain a major league, high-production value, second wrestling company, nationally, weekly. I think we’ve shown there is, there isn’t any question now.
If I could pick one place in the world to do one show, this would be it. State Farm Center is my favorite place.
We’re bringing a focus on wrestling. We’re bringing an emphasis on wrestling matches and action taking place in or around the ring. We’ll do great interviews too, but in these segments, we can do it all in the arena and around the ring. We can do some stuff backstage; we just don’t spend half the show backstage.
I’ve been talking about trying to do fantasy wrestling for years. It’s going to be really, really exciting as we build our fan base.
