Brian Cage is happy with the creative process in All Elite Wrestling, but still thinks it could be even better with some more voices involved.
Brian Cage was a guest on The Toxic Masculinity Podcast with Don Frye and Dan Severn, who asked if they have a creative team in place in AEW. Cage said no, explaining how it’s pretty much a one-man job with Tony Khan overseeing everything, and said it might be beneficial to have some other voices helping make those decisions.
“Creative team? No. It’s just Tony. Tony Khan, who owns it, and he does so much anyway already, it’s literally just all him. He’ll have some help or input from other guys and some of the EVPs that you know helped start it, like The Young Bucks and Kenny Omega, Cody Rhodes. They kind of help do their own stuff, but Tony pretty much has the final and only say on a majority of the entire product, which is a little nuts,” Cage said. “I do think that it could benefit with some other people helping out on that.”
Severn asked about talent adding some personal input and how that’s handled, and Cage said Khan welcomes feedback and collaboration, calling AEW a very easygoing environment.
“For sure he does, and that was one thing, like the overall treatment in AEW far exceeds, not just WWE but almost any place I’ve been, big company-wise. Any time I’ve texted Tony, he’s texted me right back, he always listens to my ideas. It doesn’t mean they always happen, but he takes them into consideration, and sometimes they do happen or partially will happen,” Cage noted, “but any time I need to get on a phone call or ask if we can chat, he’ll go, ‘Yeah, call me tomorrow at 2 o’clock’ and then boom, he’s there. So the fact that you have — or at least I have — such easy and direct access with him, has been incredible too because I know that would never happen elsewhere.”
Cage later talked about how creative plans are approached, noting that talent is told what ending they need to get to, but they’re allowed some freedom in order to get there.
“They don’t write anyone’s promos, they don’t really micromanage anything. Even all the matches, they have agents who will tell me what we’re doing, but nobody goes, ‘Don’t do this, you can’t do that,’” Cage said. “It’s pretty easygoing in that regard.”
Cage was recently the subject of attention after his wife, Melissa Santos, posted a screenshot of an article that said he was “lost in the shuffle” in the company. Santos agreed with the assessment, later posting a follow-up video on social media where she said he was a big star and was being “misused” by AEW.
Cage has commented on the situation on multiple occasions, denying there’s any truth to the posts speculating that he is unhappy with the promotion. Cage noted that people are unfairly implying something about his situation despite the fact that he didn’t say anything, and his wife was just agreeing with someone else’s point of view about his status.
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