Tony Khan Happy For Talent To Take Outside Opportunities As Long As It Doesn’t Hurt AEW

Tony Khan is happy when talent land outside opportunities. 

Plenty of AEW talent have ventured into the realm of television, music, and movies with Samoa Joe landing voice acting roles, Swerve Strickland dropping albums, Jon Moxley starring in films, and more. 

When asked on the AEW Revolution media call about talent take opportunities outside of AEW, Tony Khan said, “We work with the wrestlers in AEW. Anytime they have a big opportunity, if people come to us and say, ‘this is going to be good for us,’ it doesn’t even have to be great for the company, as long as it’s not going to hurt the company, if it’s going to be good for them, I want people to have these opportunities and take advantage of them. I want a happy roster. As long as it’s not going to hurt AEW, I want to try and facilitate that. When people have opportunities in film, television, or other media, if it’s not going to effect the storylines on TV in a major detrimental way, then of course we always want to try and accommodate things when possible. We’ve have people come into AEW and that was one of the reasons they wanted to come here, the other opportunities in wrestling. They weren’t given that kind of freedom for outside projects when they’re not working on TV for us.”

Saraya, who signed with AEW in September 2022, mentioned that freedom outside of the company was a big draw for her in joining the promotion. 

Elsewhere during the media call, Tony discussed All Elite Women. You can find his full comments by clicking here. 

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