Tony Khan takes the AEW National Championship controversy head-on by revealing he recently spoke with NWA owner Billy Corgan about the situation.
Late Friday night, All Elite Wrestling President Tony Khan took to social media with a live broadcast to hype up this weekend’s episode of AEW Collision. During the video, Khan addressed the National Championship controversy and revealed he recently spoke with Billy Corgan of the NWA.
“There’s been a lot of talk about the National Title and the National Title match. And there’s been talk from people in and outside of AEW; it’s been really interesting. And of course, the National Championship will be decided at AEW Full Gear. But when I recently announced it, I saw a lot of talk online, and there was chatter from even wrestlers from other promotions, people all over.
“And wrestlers are going to talk. Wrestlers are going to say stuff, that’s totally cool. But I ended up having a really nice conversation about it with the President of the NWA, Billy Corgan. Because, of course, the NWA National Championship has a great history of its own. And when we created a National Championship, I saw NWA wrestlers saying, ‘Hey, we have a National Title.’
“Well, AEW is a separate company. We have our own lineage, and I’d like to just say that Billy, I have a lot of respect for him. I have a lot of respect for what he’s doing. I really love the traditions of pro wrestling. And I had a really nice talk with Billy, and we hadn’t talked in a long time, so I think it was good for him to hear this. I respect him, and I respect the NWA, and we’re trying to do something different here.
“We brought pro wrestling back to TBS, but there are a lot of promotions that have had a great history on TBS before AEW, and one of them is the NWA, and I think it’s great that Billy’s trying to keep that tradition alive and revive it. So we had a really nice talk about this. So to any of the wrestlers anywhere in the world, and particularly some of you in the NWA, you might be happy to hear Billy and I had a very nice talk about this. And I’m sure he would say the same.”
WrestleZone will have live coverage of AEW Collision later on this evening.
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