The conversation of creative control often gets brought up when discussing AEW, and Tony Khan wants to set the record straight.
All Elite Wrestling President Tony Khan was a recent guest on the Battleground Podcast. When asked about the misconceptions when it comes to creative control in AEW, Khan confirmed that he’s the only person who has that in the company, and no wrestler on the roster has it.
“There’s no creative control. Only I have it. No wrestler has that,” Tony Khan confirmed. “And there’s a lot of freedom to work with the staff and the coaches and the wrestlers together and come up with ideas. I am one of the most collaborative people on the planet, and that’s how I’ve been able to succeed in multiple sports and build the greatest sports analytics engineering firm in the world, True Media.
“We service 29 out of the 30 Major League Baseball teams, and the one team we don’t have, their pitchers buy it out of their own pocket. And that team shall remain nameless. So we do great things. I love working with partners all over the world, media partners. And in wrestling, I think we are really collaborative. And when AEW is at its best, that’s what it is: the wrestlers coming in with ideas. I come in with ideas. We work together, and that’s what I love.”
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