Tony Khan Says Utilizing The Entire AEW Roster Has Been A Challenge

AEW has one of the most impressive rosters in wrestling. It is even more impressive considering where they were less than two years ago. This is not lost on AEW CEO Tony Khan who said utilizing everyone has been a challenge.

During an interview with Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer of F4WOnline.com, Khan was asked what the most challenging parts of the job have been. Here is the quote:

“Outside of [the pandemic], I think that the thing I didn’t expect to happen so quickly was accumulating so many talented people as quickly as we did because we started with a great roster but one thing I said heading into the Casino Battle Royale at All Out was that over fifteen months or so that you would see how much more depth the company had. To be able to do the battle royale on the card and still put on a strong pay per view card and there would be so many more strong full-time AEW performers across the battle royale and we had big people that we weren’t even able to get into that.

So, utilizing everybody has been a challenge, and finding ways to develop everyone is a challenge because we have so many great people but for a good reason because A: we’re adding another hour of television and looking to expand other platforms too and expand our roster. Dark has effectively become our developmental program in a lot of ways, you know, for the people who are ready to be on Dark.”

AEW’s roster has grown significantly since their launch in 2019. A large number of free agents have signed with the company, leading to the company having one of the most stacked rosters in the business.

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