Tony Khan on his critics such as Eric Bischoff: “It clearly does engagement for them to talk about AEW”

While speaking to Ariel Helwani, AEW President Tony Khan commented on his critics such as former WCW President Eric Bischoff…

“It clearly does engagement for them to talk about AEW, because you wouldn’t spend such a large percentage of your real estate and you wouldn’t devote such a large percentage of your content to talking about AEW unless it was engaging. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be a smart strategy.”

“[Why do you think they do it so much?] Well, we’re ongoing. We’re putting on wrestling 52 weeks a year, and people want to talk about current events. And right now, AEW is a huge part of the wrestling landscape. We put great shows on. Tomorrow is Wednesday night, and we’re going to have a great Wednesday Night Dynamite tomorrow. And I think that any given week, you can count on AEW putting on new content to talk about, and we’re one of the major wrestling brands that people want to discuss. A big part of the wrestling landscape is AEW. So I think people want to talk about the new wrestling, talk about the current wrestlers.”

Khan also stated the following about Bischoff…

“I do respect his opinions. I think he talks about AEW a lot because AEW is on every Wednesday night, every Saturday night, and it gives them good content to talk about. In his case, I think it’s interesting because he spends a lot of time talking about AEW, but I think he’s also cognizant that there were a lot of media personalities and former wrestling promoters who had strong, vocal opinions of him. And I’m not trying to say that I’ve done more than him.”