AEW President Tony Khan has stated many times that one of his biggest regrets in wrestling was never managing to get Jay Briscoe on AEW programming before his tragic passing in January 2023. This was due to a TNT executive not being happy about some controversial comments Jay had made in the past, and even though he publicly apologized and learned from his mistakes, Jay was never allowed on AEW TV. Now that Mark Briscoe is not only on AEW programming every week, but is also the champion of TNT itself, he truly sees it as a full circle moment.

“There was a point where the trajectory of the Briscoe Brothers was–it was just all up, up, and then you know some unfortunate comments were made by my big-headed brother. But you know, it’s one of the things where you live and learn, and we’re just so grateful that people kind of have seen and acknowledged that,” Briscoe said. “We did learn from our mistakes, and then it’s like…the full circle aspect of it. It really is–it’s mind-blowing man. It’s hard to put into words, it really is.”

Khan then rounded off the question by mentioning that he did everything he could to get The Briscoe Brothers in AEW earlier, but the unnamed TNT executive wouldn’t change their stance. However, he went on to thank David Zaslav for bringing in a new team of people that were more open to seeing The Briscoes on AEW TV, as well as offering up more opportunities for AEW to work with Warner Brothers Discovery on various promotional collaborations.

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