Tony Khan
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120 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Our companies really respect and I really respect it and people I really liked in both cases. So those are really hard challenges along the way. There's business challenges. And when you're dealing with an aggressive competitor like we are, who is, I think,
I mean, it's important to note, I think one of the really cool things about the success of AEW is that AEW is a challenger brand competing in an industry where the industry leader historically has been the most adept company at crippling and smashing their competitors in the history of business.
So, AEW's existence in this industry signifies not only the Challenger brand, which is really cool, an alternative, which is really cool, but we're doing great things. We're having a lot of fun, and we exist. And our mere existence signifies
speaks to the fact that we've been able to do something very special that actually nobody has ever been able to do in terms of the competition, in terms of the hikes we've hit and what we continue to do with AEW. We exist in the face of the most aggressive, dominant business competitor in the history of business. No business competitor has faced more different challengers from different regions
in different parts of the world, particularly concentrated around the U.S., and not just one part of the U.S., the southern, southeastern United States, Minnesota, Canada, all these places. They effectively smashed the competition place after place after place successfully with a hammer and done incredibly well and thrived in doing so.
And this has been going on for over 40 years since before I was alive. And it's really cool to exist in the face of it.
Well, you have to build credibility. And the best way to do that is to find a way to get your foot in the door. And that's the hardest part is getting your foot in the door. And that's really, I had started doing so and being able to get into the NFL. So I've been able to take advantage of the opportunities that I've been given and make the most of the openings.
And that's all they really were in all these cases was openings. Nobody was asking me to start an analytics department at the Jaguars. It's something I always really wanted to do. And I think it was a need. that the team had that we were able to fill.
So I think if you can find a need or a role that you can fill to somebody of great importance, then that is the best way to get your foot in the door in any industry. And if you can find a way to make yourself useful or important to somebody who's important and makes markets or makes opinions, then you have the ability to get your foot in the door.
Yeah, there's no office in a wrestling. So we do shows 52 weeks a year. So like that's the tier. We used to travel a ton. It is a serious undertaking because we do just on TV, 104 shows, not including the pay-per-views, 104 events. And that's just wrestling. That's before I touch on football. And I've never missed a show. I've been in every AEW show we've ever done. Wow.
And to do 104 TV shows plus nine pay-per-views, a handful of other major live events, it's a lot. So over 110 wrestling events a year, plus I'm at all the Jaguars games. Unless there's some major conflict, you can count on one hand all the games I've missed in 13 years at the Jaguars. I come over as much as I can to Fulham and... Yeah, it's a lot.
The travel is a big piece of it, but just really staying on top of everything is a lot of fun. You know, as a sports fan, a wrestling fan, a football fan, it's easy in that sense.
Yeah, because that's what I would be doing anyway. So there's a lot to it, but that's basically what it is, Alana, is it doesn't because I love it.
Well, I'm very fortunate. I think I was born on third base and I've stolen home several times to where I've scored a lot of runs where I was able to take advantage. So I've stolen home at least seven or eight times now. Thankfully, I was put in the game at a very advantageous position, but then I've been able to make the most of the opportunities I've been given every time.
And I think that's the best advice I can give is make the most of the opportunities you're given. I was dealt a really good hand and then played it really well time after time after time. And I think even if you're not dealt the best hand, hopefully you'll be able to find a way to make the most of the hand you are dealt and get a better hand and work with it.
So I can't give advice that applies to everybody because my situation is very, very unique. And I realized that a lot of the advice I'm giving probably doesn't apply to 99.999% of people.
If you do find yourself with an opening though, especially if there's a way to do it without totally unethically shanking someone in the back or doing something I don't want to do, then, you know, it's always great if you can find a way to take that opportunity and make the most of it.
I wouldn't change anything. I'd be afraid of changing a single thing. I don't want to butterfly and affect myself and not sit on that plane next to Bernie, not run into Kevin that night. So I wouldn't change a thing. I wouldn't want to mess with the past. So I have no advice for my younger self. Remember to steal your dad's keys like Bill and Ted.
No, I don't actually have any time traveling advice.
Thank you for having me. I really appreciate you having me on. It's very kind and I really enjoyed spending time. You're such a great interviewer and not only inquisitive, but made me feel very at home here. So thanks a lot. I really enjoyed it.
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