Tony Khan Comments On AEW’s Success Following Cody Rhodes Departure

Tony Khan Comments On AEW’s Success Following Cody Rhodes Departure AEW

In advance of AEW’s return to Long Island tonight, Tony Khan is speaking about the departure of Cody Rhodes noting that AEW is perking along just fine without Rhodes on the scene.

Pointing to the massive pay-per-view purchases for both All Out and Revolution, both sans Rhodes, Khan expounded on the matter to News 12, a New York news affiliate, saying:

“Cody was a great person from the start of AEW. He’s a great wrestler and somebody I really like and respect very much and we’ll always wish him the best. The timing of it with a lot of big stars coming in around the same time, of course, CM Punk, Adam Cole, Bryan Danielson coming in and there was a period of time where some of the top stars like Chris Jericho and Jon Moxley were both out and now both have come back better than ever.

“Cody was a top star for us at the beginning and we’ve sustained, I think, and come out stronger than ever this year on TBS with Dynamite and in particular, pay-per-view, we just did one of our biggest pay-per-views ever with Revolution and set a record there. So, it was kind of a pay-per-view without him and we had done a pay-per-view not long ago without him and so we’ve, ya know, done All Out and Revolution, which are the two biggest shows we’ve ever done on pay-per-view and he wasn’t on those shows. So, I think we’ve sustained with big stars coming in, ya know, CM Punk among them and now the emergence of ‘Hangman’ Page is the top champion and big stars have come along in the meantime, it’s helped a lot. He’s [Cody Rhodes] a huge star now too, not just here in AEW, he’d been all over the world and it’s come full circle for him in a lot of ways and again, I wish him the best.”

Tonight’s episode of AEW Dynamite features major matchups including a contract signing between Long Island favorite MJF and Wardlow as well as CM Punk taking on another Long Island native, John Silver.

You can keep up with all of the live coverage from the show here.

Transcription via WrestlingInc. 

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