AEW President, Tony Khan recently spoke with ITV regarding the new partnership and Double or Nothing where he discussed possibly having a U.K. based PPV in the future.
On possibly having an AEW show in the UK:
“I think something we can offer, I hope we do offer, and I plan to offer is shows here because there is a great fan base here, definitely a proven live audience that will attend the shows, there are great television and PPV audience as well,” Khan added. “Plus, there is a great chance to market that content back home to the American fans. If there was a show (in the UK) that had an 8 p.m. start time on pay-per-view at one of the great arenas that we’d like to work with, that’s still a very reasonable start time on the weekend (in the US). You could see a 3 p.m. start time on the East Coast, a noon start time (on the West Coast), these are great start times to watch wrestling on a Saturday or a Sunday. In terms of our television, there is a lot of potentials to expand the partnership in a lot of ways.”
On AEW offering an alternative product:
“I think there has never been a better time to get people into wrestling,” Khan said. “Because the product is so good. I think what we are going to offer for free is going to get people enticed to buy the Pay-Per-View. I think what we have going in the Casino Battle Royale is going to show people an exciting, different take on the traditional battle royal format, different than what anybody has done. It’s not going to be two hours of battle royals. It’s going to be really, really action-packed.”
On the partnership with ITV:
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“There are a lot of ways we can take this partnership as we expand our programming slate,” said Khan. “I think we are going to be offering a lot more shows after Double or Nothing. I think the big push is towards Double or Nothing, it is coming up very soon. For the fans in America it’s on May 25th, But here (in the UK) it’s May 26th with a midnight start of the Buy-In show which is going to be the most widely available, live wrestling special probably ever in the UK given the wide reach ITV and ITV4 have.”
H/T to WrestlingInc.com for the transcriptions.
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