Tony Khan Says AEW Have Been Able To ‘Stick And Move’ With Regards To WWE Attempts At Counterprogramming

Tony Khan comments on WWE’s attempts at counterprogramming AEW shows.

In recent months, a large topic of conversation amongst fans have been WWE’s attempts to counterprogram AEW shows by having events at the same time. However, AEW have opted to have earlier start times in order to avoid these conflicting start times for fans.

While speaking on Going Ringside, Tony Khan was asked about WWE’s attempts to counterprogram AEW’s shows, with Tony noting that the company have been able to ‘stick and move’.

“Well, we’re having a great year. We’ve been able to stick and move and make it work really well for us. There’s always going to be tough competition, and in this sport, it’s very tough competition, a kind of competition that makes you work really hard 52 weeks a year. For AEW, we’re having a great year. We’ve been putting on great shows. The TV shows have gotten great ratings. We’ve got great support from our audience. And we’ve really grown the audience in 2025. Not only have we added HBO Max and put new viewers on streaming, we’ve got more people watching the shows on cable than we did last year. For Dynamite and Collision, the audience has gone up. If you look where we ended up in Q4 of 2024, each quarter we’ve been going up, building our audience on TBS and TNT, while there’s also people watching on HBO Max. It’s kind of the opposite of what the analysts had predicted when we started simulcasting. So we’re still seeing great returns, great audiences on cable, and I’m really excited about it because I think that 2025, right now, this year, has been maybe the best year of AEW ever. The pay-per-views, you mentioned pay-per-views, we’re doing our best pay-per-views we’ve ever done. If you say… from the past six years, what are the top 10 AEW pay-per-views? I think there’s a good chance five out of the 10, six out of the 10 would be from this year. So it’s definitely a great year for the product of AEW and we’re very focused on how we can make AEW the best wrestling company it can be.”

Elsewhere in another recent interview, Tony spoke about MVP’s wrestling mind. You can read more about that here.

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