AEW President Tony Khan has admitted that the promotion underutilizes disqualification and count-out finishes for a reason.
Almost every AEW match ends with either a three-count or a tap-out. Tony Khan has revealed that his own experiences have made him opt for more conclusive finishes.
Speaking on The Way of the Blade podcast, Khan compared AEW’s booking to promotions such as ECW and All-Japan. Stating that every DQ in AEW has to make sense, Khan said:
“Count-out finishes aren’t always popular. For me as a promoter, you can count on one hand the number of count-out and disqualification finishes that I’ve done. I really like doing conclusive finishes, but I definitely think a count-out is a much more conclusive finish than a disqualification. Sometimes, there’s a storyline reason for both, but ultimately, it often feels unsatisfying.”
“I will not let people off the hook for this could I feel like half the matches on the show are like a disqualification and it’s been that way my whole life (with) multiple promotions on television. Really, the competitive promotions on television. Such a large percentage of their matches ended in a disqualification. I found it very unsatisfying. Instead, you watch ECW or All-Japan, and there are a lot more finishes and maybe the happy medium is [something like] Smoky Mountain (Wrestling) was a very well booked promotion.”
“I have no problem with doing it. Sometimes, I probably underdo them (to the point) where you never see them, but when we do them, they really do make sense.”
In a separate interview, Khan revealed the backstage origins of the onscreen partnership between Andrade El Idolo and Vickie Guerrero.
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