To further paint the picture of how AEW is run, Tony Khan again brought up that he’s helped by many great people back stage, but asserted that unlike everyone else, as the President, he’ll be at every show and have an insight nobody else does. “I have great people who could contribute ideas, like, what everybody from Bryan Danielson – who’s an all-time legend in wrestling but also has some great ideas – and different people on the staff,” he said. “It’s a great group of women and men, but among all them, the only person who goes to every TV is me.”

“So, I have a pretty consistent idea of what I’d like to do, but also, whoever’s in the room of coaches and staff of that day? I will talk to them,” Khan added. Interestingly, he then compared backstage AEW to a scene in “Ghostbusters” where the characters Ray and Winston were driving in a car, which made him always think that they were an unlikely pair but still had to work together, and in AEW this is the case too. “Within every group of people, there’s subgroups and that’s not always the ones that you think when you see the people walk and stand together,” he expressed.

Khan claimed that like the aforementioned scene, he has different people in every show and has a good feel for AEW by now. “I feel like 2025 in particular, we’ve done a really good job of listening to the fans and putting on a really good show!” Khan added.

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