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The Sessions with Renée Paquette

9: Tony Khan

The Sessions with Renée Paquette

Renée Paquette

Leisure, Society & Culture, Wrestling, Sports, Hobbies, Personal Journals

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

We got the big one: AEW President Tony Khan joins to talk all things All Elite, from working with IMPACT to his relationship with WWE to booking the highest-rated wrestling show of all time.

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0:00.0

Hello, hello, hello, hello, everybody. Welcome to a new episode of Oral Sessions with me, Renee

0:10.7

Picket. Listen, this is the show where we don't fuck around.

0:15.1

We get good guests, we have great conversations,

0:19.3

and we hit the freaking pavement running.

0:21.8

And that's exactly what happened in this week's episode because I got

0:26.5

the one the only the president of all elite wrestling one of the best dudes just such a sweet

0:36.6

genuine soul that just loves him some wrestling and made his own wrestling

0:41.6

promotion we've got Tony Khan on this week's episode.

0:45.8

He was so great. I mean I've not been able to see Tony in a little while because I've not

0:49.7

been able to travel with John. The world's in shambles as we all know. I'm pregnant as we all know so I've been

0:54.8

firmly planted at home. So it was so cool to just get to sit down and shoot the ship with them for a little bit.

1:00.3

But just finding out you know about the inception of AEW kind of a reflection on AEW looking back at the year that they've had on TV

1:08.8

their contract with TNT the successes that they've had what he wants to change where he wants to grow

1:15.7

talent that he wants to develop and we talk about the competition in wrestling and how that is

1:21.1

thriving which is amazing for all fans of wrestling.

1:25.0

Thank you to all wrestling promotions for that.

1:28.0

And we also talk about what it is like being raised by a self-made billionaire.

1:35.0

That's just something that I find fascinating.

1:38.0

And Tony's really cool talking about it

1:40.0

and talking about it and talking about his relationship with his father

1:42.0

and talking to his dad about wanting to start doing a w of course Tony Khan and his dad

1:48.1

you know they have the Jacksonville Jaguars they've got full of FC in the Premier League so no strangers to the world of

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