All Elite Wrestling was officially announced in January of 2019, and since then the promotion has come a long way. AEW Dynamite has been going head to head with NXT on Wednesday nights since October, and the stars of AEW have been working hard to build up the brand.
AEW is a name that’s now known in the world of professional wrestling, but company President Tony Khan recently revealed on AEW Unrestricted that All Elite Wrestling wasn’t the original name for the company.
“It wasn’t AEW to begin with. Actually, my first idea was something called ‘World’s Best Wrestling’ which, at the end of the day, similar meaning to All Elite Wrestling trying to say we’re going great wrestling.”
Khan also went into detail about why he felt the need to bring fan live weekly TV shows every week as opposed to taping the show in a studio.
“We did this not so that I could do this job that I’ve always wanted to do for fun but because I believe that if we ran this business and it’s part of the business plan that we had a really good chance to do exactly what we’ve just done: to get a renewal from TNT, to stay on this great channel [and] to bring wrestling fans weekly TV and not the kind of weekly TV that other companies have been offering like taping in theme parks and taping four [or] five shows a month. Then you get to week three [or] week four, things aren’t fresh anymore. The idea of taping TV three [or] four weeks in advance, it just did not sit well with me, and it’s not something that I wanted to do which is why we bare the great expense we do every week like we are this week in going to a different city almost every week and presenting almost always live shows. I think that’s something that had been missing from the wrestling business.”
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