Tony Khan Details Talent Travel Issues For 11/11 AEW Taping, Still Thinks The Show Came Out Great

Tony Khan was forced to make a number of changes to Wednesday’s dual episode of Dynamite and Collision.

During the AEW Full Gear media call on Thursday, Fightful’s Jeremy Lambert prompted Tony Khan to talk about the travel issues that the company dealt with for the dual taping in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Khan noted that despite the travel issues, he was proud of the three and a half hour show that he was able to put together. The broadcast was headlined by a TBS Championship bout between Queen Aminata, Hyan, and Maya World. As it turns out, Hyan didn’t get to the arena until the show was starting. Khan also mentioned Nick Wayne as somebody who arrived later in the night.

“You’ve got numerous flight issues and you’re trying to put a great wrestling show together, imagine how I feel at the end of the night when I think it was a great show and everything came together great. It was a huge sense of relief and excitement going into Full Gear. I had announced some great things for the show and then there were some people that had some issues getting out, which can happen and that’s why it’s good to have contingency plans and I love doing that. In this case, the network was great about pushing some things back. In the case of the main event, Hyan arrived at the arena as the show was starting. So by putting that match in the main event, first of all, it’s a great championship match in the main event. Hyan has been doing great in both AEW and ROH, I wanted to give her the opportunity. There were numerous other people that participated on the show, particularly in the Collision part, that arrived later as we were starting the live event. I love being able to pivot and make plans, when the show comes together well, that’s the energy of the pandemic that I really loved. So I’m used to making changes and in this case, I thought the show came out great and we were able to get everybody on. There were people that were stuck in the airport that came and did a great job, they were still able to wrestle on the show or do interviews on the show. Nick Wayne, I really wanted to get Nick Wayne on the show. Nick’s another person that because of the Jericho cruise, had gotten there later in the night but I really wanted to feature Nick and do what we did. In the case of some of those young wrestlers and stars that came in, I’m happy to make those changes and I’m just proud the show came together well.”

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