Tony Khan On AEW Live Event Strategy, New Media Deal With WBD, Simulcasting On Max | Interview

Fightful Wrestling Podcast with Sean Ross Sapp

Fightful, Inc.

Wrestling, Sports

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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AEW Founder Tony Khan speaks with Sean Ross Sapp at the AEW All In ticketing on sale event at GlobeLife Field.Note that we were told AEW would not be answering questions about Rey Fenix.Grab your EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal by going to nordvpn.com/fightful to get a Huge Discount off your NordVPN Plan + a Bonus Gift! It’s completely risk free with Nord’s 30 day money-back guarantee! ➼ https://nordvpn.com/fightfulSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/fightful-pro-wrestling-and-mma-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	What's up you guys? Sean Ross Sapp-Fifle here at Globe Life Field, Dallas. We're at the on sale event for AEW All in 2025.
0:09.0	How'd you feel? We saw Brian Danielson come back. We saw Sting come back. We got Tony Kahn here. We got Big Boom A.J. Big Justice in the family here. It was a fun time.
0:20.0	It was a fun time. The fans were great.
0:22.0	We had great energy from the Texas wrestling fans and this community. And this is a great venue.
0:27.2	It's going to be a great venue for pro wrestling. I love the wrestling business so much.
0:31.6	And one of the great things about wrestling is all the different places pro wrestling is permeated.
0:38.0	And the Texas wrestling fans, and in particular here around the Dallas Metroplex and here in
0:43.8	Arlington, these are great, great wrestling fans.
0:46.3	There's a great tradition and a great history of pro wrestling.
0:49.3	And we're really tapped into that.
0:50.7	And I'm really looking forward in the coming months to AEW becoming a bigger
0:56.9	and bigger part of this community.
0:58.5	We came here for the AEW Collision Residency and we had such a great experience here and
1:03.7	I really believed in the vision and this dream of AEW at Globe Life Field and we're here now and I got to say it feels like it was
1:14.3	the right call. I love it here. It's a great venue and I can feel the energy that AEW is going to
1:19.1	bring and the energy that the fans here in this community and the fans from all over Texas,
1:23.9	all over America and all over the world are going to bring to AEW All In 2025 right here at
1:29.8	Global Life Field. The tickets went on sale today officially. We're off to a huge start and it's going to be
1:35.5	a great night of wrestling here. And when the fans find out what we have in store, this thing is
1:41.9	going to fill up and it's going to be a great, great night when AW All In makes its debut in America.
1:49.0	You also just landed a new media rights deal with WBD. The simulcast is rapidly approaching.
1:58.0	How are you guys approaching that, making sure that everything's prepared,
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