Tony Khan Reveals His Favourite AEW Storyline That He Booked

WWE Chairman Vince McMahon has pretty much been in charge of creative for decades, so it’s not surprising to hear that his AEW counterpart Tony Khan has a big hand in AEW’s booking.

Khan appeared on a recent episode of the Talk is Jericho podcast, and he was asked what the favourite storyline that he has worked on so far is.

“As far as my favorite thing that’s a start to finish thing that I did a lot of stuff on, I brought it up before but definitely the whole Darby against Team Taz and what it became and then bringing in Sting. It’s still going, and it’s been going a long time. I think there’s been a lot of cool moments. Ricky coming in. Like I said, didn’t have him as the name but knew we needed to add somebody with Brian [Cage], and that was clearly the guy and then Will along the way.

“It was clearly the guy and Taz and of course knew that Tyler Hook would be big for us some time too, and he’s a great kid too. Taz would add so much to it with his expertise and being a great coach, and he’s a great commentator for us, but he adds so much to them and the presentation of it. Ricky has added a lot too. Brian was a guy who signed off the bat, and he was injured when we first signed him.

“And I was ready to bring him in. I had this idea saved up for Darby, but then with Sting being available, plugging him into it, I wanted to do something big, build-up to a big Darby vs. Ricky match and save Darby vs. Brian. So we get two huge ratings along the way, build them both up for months and months, and we end up doing huge ratings for both. We did a over a million for Darby and Ricky, and Ricky had never won a match on Dynamite. Ricky I really believe in and had great moments. He’s had great ideas too.”

You can listen to the full podcast here.

Thanks to WrestlingInc. for the transcription.

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