All Elite Wrestling (AEW) is celebrating the third anniversary of its weekly Wednesday night show “Dynamite,” and company leader Tony Khan is pleased to see the program grow so quickly at the time.
Khan said in an interview with diverse. “I think we’ve developed a lot of new stars in these three years where we can put together great cards that are more consistent from week to week.”
The first episode of “Dynamite” aired on October 20, 2019 on TNT (the show now airs on TBS), but this wasn’t AEW’s first televised card. The company had already run several pay-per-view shows prior to the launch of Dynamite, which Khan credits with not having serious tension in the first broadcast on TNT.
The show got off to a strong start with wrestling fans and in the ratings, but things started to falter towards the end of the year.
“That was when I started saying, ‘You know, a lot of these setbacks could have been avoided,'” Khan said. “And there were things I didn’t want to do in the first place. So I just said going forward that I would only do the ideas that I feel good about. …As I gained experience in wrestling, I started to gain more confidence.”
However, sailing has not been entirely smooth since then. Khan has had to deal with a number of issues with many of his high-profile talents lately, from injuries that kept people on the sidelines for months to more personal matters. According to multiple reports, AEW Vice CEOs, wrestlers The Young Bucks and Kenny Omega along with former AEW “Hangman” World Champion Adam Page, engaged in a legitimate physical fight with CM Punk behind the scenes after the “All Out” pay-per-view On September 4th. All those involved in the incident were suspended and stripped of any tournaments they held at the time.
Khan says he is unable to comment as the investigation into the incident is ongoing, but is willing to share his thoughts on another talent in AEW with whom he has had a strained relationship recently: Maxwell Jacob Friedman, or MJF. As MJF reportedly had issues with Khan earlier in the year, MJF supposedly wanted a more lucrative contract due to him being one of the best performing players in AEW. After a hot promotion from MJF on “Dynamite” in June, where he invited Khan and fans, he didn’t appear at any of the AEW events until he made a surprising comeback in “All Out”.
“It’s a very professional job,” Khan said of his current relationship with MJF. “He’s been a part of AEW since day one, and he’s one of the hottest stars on our TV show. … Whether you love MJF or you love hating MJF, I think he’s one of the wrestlers who hooked up with the crowd in recent years and made himself a star. He also had a company behind him. To help build and support him. I think he’s the complete package of everything it takes to be a successful professional wrestler. I think he has it all. He’s a really important part of AEW.”
Khan also paid tribute to those who now oversee AEW as part of Warner Bros. Discovery newly incorporated, and specifically thanked Nancy Daniels and Scott Lauers for working with him and providing “amazing support”.
“They have integrated us into the new company and given us the opportunity to share and weave the most valuable intellectual property into AEW,” he said. “It’s really exciting.” The mergers include themed episodes on both “Shark Week” and the release of HBO’s House of the Dragon. Khan also described the move to TBS as a “huge success for us”, saying the time since the move “has been the hottest we’ve had this entire year”.
Finally, Khan spoke about another special event that happened as part of “Dynamite” this week – National Scissors Day. The event stemmed from the emergence of an increasingly popular logo and hand gestures coined by The Acclaimed, AEW’s current champions. Khan hailed The Acclaimed – which consists of Max Caster, Anthony Boynes and manager Billy Gunn, aka Daddy Ass – as AEW’s first domestic champions, saying they made their way to the point “where the audience was right behind them”.
“They’ve found ways to connect with the public, but also to have great matches, and you have to be able to do both to be a really great wrestler,” he said. “Scissors is something that really relates to fans. So I think throughout this week and especially on Wednesdays, maybe even Thursday at school the next day, there will be people doing the scissors at school, work and the audience in AEW, and there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s a great way to say hello. Somebody “.
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