Tony Khan Reveals Key To AEW Creative Process

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Tony Khan has revealed the key to the AEW creative process and how he plans stories, matches and segments.

Having revealed that he’s been booking wrestling shows since being a kid, keeping a notebook of matches and segments, Khan has revealed how that methodology has followed him into adulthood.

Speaking on WTF with Marc Maron (subscription required), Khan explained:

“I had a process, I already had a schedule of what I had planned week to week in different stories with different matches and segments.

“At some point, I just inverted it. I realized I should tip this over.”

He would then detail how this inversion has led to what he does now, explaining:

“Instead of looking at the dates and building it out, I kind of flipped what the column was and what the rows were, and put the columns where the rows were, and now I organize everything like this since Full Gear and now I feel like I’m more organized, even though it’s all the same information, it’s just looking at it differently. It really helps.”

The result is something that looks like a storyboard that would be seen in film and television, with Khan going on to say:

“I was already doing that, and we kind of had that, but I had it the other way where it was looking at the shows and I had where the columns were, and out here were the different wrestlers and stories.

“For some reason, and I don’t know why, it shouldn’t make that big of a difference flipping it. The flow, working down the page, it looks a lot better and works a lot better.

“It’s basically the same thing I was doing, I just flipped the page around, and it’s helped me be even more organized.”

All this flipping wouldn’t matter if the recipients of the creative organizational process were subpar, but Khan also praised the roster for their commitment to putting on great matches across all the AEW shows on a weekly basis.

He would also thank the fans for their continued support of AEW.

Transcript from Fightful.

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