Tony Khan Says AEW Would Never Run WrestleMania Weekend, Wishes He Had TV To Build ROH Supercard

Tony Khan is set to run his first ROH show with Supercard of Honor on April 1. The event is part of WrestleMania weekend, but was scheduled before Khan officially purchased ROH. 

Khan has already announced matches such as FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) vs. The Briscoes (Mark & Jay Briscoe) and Jay Lethal vs. Lee Moriarty. 

Speaking on Busted Open Radio, Khan has promised to deliver a pay-per-view similar to that of AEW and reiterated that even though he will be part of WrestleMania weekend due to the circumstances, AEW won’t run the same weekend in the future. 

“I only know one way to do pay-per-view and it’s going 100% and doing the best you can. I promise to make that pay-per-view great. I know there are a lot of people who are going to be around the Dallas Metroplex area at that time. This is my first time going out there for that particular event weekend. It’s not normally something I would do, it’s not normally something AEW would do. It’s not something AEW would ever do and we’re not doing it. The event had been scheduled in advanced by Ring of Honor and the tickets had been sold, I felt the right thing to do would be do right by the fans and have the show and make it the best show I possibly could, even though it’s unusual for us to go into enemy territory and run a show that weekend. It’s normally something associated with smaller wrestling companies and something I didn’t want to do. Since it was booked and the fans are committed to it, I’m gonna go in 100% and make it the best show I possibly can. I never expected to be talking about WrestleMania weekend and the logistics of the shows there,” he said. 

WrestleMania week is the biggest week of the year in wrestling in terms of publicity and shows. While there are dozens of events running during the week, Tony has promised to put on one of the best shows of the weekend, pointing to the success of AEW pay-per-views, both critically and commercially, as his track record in delivering for the fans. 

“I’m going to tell everyone right now, it’s going to be worth it to come to the show and worth it to stay. I know there are other people doing shows on Friday night, but this will be the best one. People can troll and say what they want, but the people who order the shows know; nobody does pay-per-view better. That’s not an opinion, that’s a fact. I will promise to deliver an awesome pay-per-view. The best Ring of Honor pay-per-view. l I could possibly do. It’ll be different than an AEW pay-per-view. In terms of promising; there is going to be good matches and I’ll deliver a lot of fun stuff for the fans and do the best I can. That’s a promise right now. You’re going to want to come,” he stated.

As previously mentioned by Tony, WarnerMedia gave him the green light to still hold Supercard of Honor despite the show airing at the same time as AEW Rampage on TNT. While Tony now owns ROH, the future of the distribution is currently unknown. 

“The only thing I wish, I wish I had control of the TV for months to build to this pay-per-view, but I haven’t. This is my first show in charge of Ring of Honor and I’m really excited about it. It’s been awesome working with new people and meeting new people. It’s not how I’m used to building cards, but we didn’t have TV before the original Double or Nothing and there are so many great fans online that want to see exciting matches and I believe that if I can put together exciting matches, we can build off this pay-per-view and almost use it as a pilot for a new product, the same way the original Double or Nothing launched a new AEW. I have so much respect for the history of Ring of Honor and I hope that’ll come through in Supercard,” he said. 

Fans can check out the current lineup for ROH Supercard of Honor by clicking here. 

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