Since the inception of the company AEW has signed quite a few wrestlers, but it sounds like some of them will be exiting the company sooner than later.
AEW President Tony Khan recently spoke to TV Insider, and he noted that he kept a lot of wrestlers that he wasn’t using under contract because he wanted them to have an income during the pandemic.
“When we started a lot of people had contracts that were a couple of years long and a lot of them are coming up. I have really tried hard to be very considerate of the people on the roster. Especially going through the pandemic. That encompassed a long period of time where we were still in our first year of television and going into our second.
“I kept a lot of people under contract even though I wasn’t necessarily using them on television because I wanted them to still have paying work, which was hard to come by for wrestling during the pandemic where there weren’t any independent shows. Really only two places were running and the other place was cutting people left and right. I did want to give some job security to people.”
However, Khan went on to say that he’s had to make some tough choices, and he won’t be renewing all of the contracts that are currently set to expire.
“Now with so many wrestlers coming in, I can’t renew all the contracts. I’ve had to make some tough choices based on ability, fan response, or both. I try to maintain the best roster I can for the company and fans.”
Stay tuned for more updates as they become available.
