Tony Khan Talks Rampage Being Live More Often, MJF's Contract, More

AEW’s Tony Khan recently sat down with Ariel Helwani to discuss numerous topics and you can check out the highlights below.

On AEW Rampage being live more often:

I don’t know what it will do permanently, but I know going forward for the next month, really through Full Gear, most Rampages are live. That’s the idea. We’re going to step it up going into Full Gear and step it up for Rampage. So we have Rampage live this week. We’re doing a separate Rampage show, it’s actually a standalone show, but we are doing it on a Thursday in Canada, to be honest, because it makes a lot of sense with the traveling crew and with everybody up there for a lot of reasons to do it over the Wednesday-Thursday, rather than keep everybody up there the extra day. But there’s also great opportunities with keeping that venue for two days and the business deal we made was a really good deal.

On MJF’s contract situation:

I don’t see how going into detail about it other than talking about his wrestling and what he brings to the show, and of course, you know, everything he brings, his great promos, his great ideas, there’s a lot there. But you know, I think if you want to get into the contracts and that aspect of it with me, same as my other jobs. If you wanted to talk about the contracts at Fulham, I would probably be kind of vague. I would say I really liked the player. I think it’s good business we’re doing and I think it’s a great transfer that we’re making and we’re doing a smart move for the club, but getting into the numbers and stuff, rarely will I do that.

On WWE making creative changes once Triple H took control:

I think there’s been a lot of improvements there and I definitely think for us, we’ve had a lot of big improvements in recent weeks. I think both are very competitive and had been very competitive in the past, obviously. I think in this case, now hopefully going to be good for everybody. There’s probably a bit more similarity in what we’re looking for in terms of the profile of a free agent, which I think is already going to start being a thing. So we’ll see how that goes. I think we’re looking at more similar people. There was definitely something happening this year where there were wrestlers being released from there that came here that I definitely believe belong on national television, worldwide television that are huge stars in AEW.

On why he considers every other wrestling company to be competition:

I think all wrestling is competition. I don’t know if you’ve heard me say this before. Some people asked me why I’ll talk about other wrestling companies, especially WWE and I’ll tell you, there was literally a book handed to me over three years ago before the launch of Dynamite by Warner media at the time before it was Warner Brothers Discovery. It was telling me what our place was already, because Dynamite hadn’t launched, but we had carved out a space in the Pay Per View business where it was clear we weren’t a niche business because we had already outperformed every company other than WWE for 20 years. So we were already not just number two, but the biggest number two in the Pay Per View market in 20 years because the numbers we did for our first Pay Per Views were bigger than the numbers WCW was doing in their last 18 months of business. Since then we’ve posted numbers that nobody’s done since the 90s other than WWE literally.

Tony was also asked about the All Out situation, CM Punk’s status, conversations with Bray Wyatt, and Cody Rhodes but refused to answer questions about any of those topics.

You can watch the full conversation below. Thanks to WrestlingNews.co for providing transcriptions.