AEW Star Believes Tony Khan Should Focus More On Storytelling & Characters

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AEW has been primarily focused on it’s in-ring action since the company formed, promising more ‘sports based’ presentation.

While there have been plenty of well received stories during AEW’s history, there have been a lot of complaints about AEW not having many compelling stories during their two hour Dynamite show.

AEW star Matt Hardy was asked about one piece of advice that he would give Tony Khan on his Extreme Life of Matt Hardy podcast, where he said that he would try and focus more on storytelling of individuals characters on the show.

He said:

“I think if I had one suggestion for Tony Khan, I think I would try and focus a little more on the storytelling of the different characters, really highlight every character’s journeys a lot more. I think it’s still very important.

“I know it’s a very sports-centric driven program. AEW Dynamite — they want the matches to be of the best quality and the utmost quality, and I totally respect that, but I feel like professional wrestling, a very big part of it is the sportsmanship and the showmanship and just like having characters that the crowd is connected to that they’re emotionally invested in, that have this journey that you want to follow. You want to see what’s going to happen next. And you’re really worried about where the story is going to go. Are they going to succeed? Are they going to fail?

“What did they have to overcome? What obstacles lay in their path? I just would like to add a little bit more of that into all the amazing wrestling that happens week in and week out on AEW. There’s been some great stories. I would like to incorporate more of that for all characters from the top of the roster to the bottom of the roster.”

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