Tony Khan On AEW Stars Taking Outside Opportunities

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Tony Khan has shared his honest thoughts on AEW and ROH contracted stars taking outside opportunities.

Several AEW stars have been working on other projects in recent months and years, with Samoa Joe notably voicing King Shark in the Suicide Squad video game, and a number of stars landing movie roles.

Speaking during the Revolution media call, Tony Khan noted that he tries to accomodate all stars’ projects, as long as they don’t affect TV storylines in a major way:

“We work with the wrestlers in AEW. Anytime they have a big opportunity, if people come to us and say, ‘this is going to be good for us,’ it doesn’t even have to be great for the company, as long as it’s not going to hurt the company, if it’s going to be good for them, I want people to have these opportunities and take advantage of them.

“I want a happy roster. As long as it’s not going to hurt AEW, I want to try and facilitate that.

“When people have opportunities in film, television, or other media, if it’s not going to effect the storylines on TV in a major detrimental way, then of course we always want to try and accommodate things when possible.

“We’ve have people come into AEW and that was one of the reasons they wanted to come here, the other opportunities in wrestling. They weren’t given that kind of freedom for outside projects when they’re not working on TV for us.”

There was reportedly some frustration about talent not being used after being flown in for the recent ROH taping, which you can read more about right here.

Transcription via Fightful. 

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