Tony Khan Explains How The Relaunch Of The XFL Led To The Birth Of AEW
The XFL’s revival in 2018 led, in part, to the development of All Elite Wrestling, according to Tony Khan.
Speaking to Leap Academy (via Fightful), Khan revealed how Vince McMahon’s decision to revive the football league helped AEW. According to Khan, it was mostly due to how bad of an idea an XFL revival sounded.
“In 2018, the McMahon family announced they were going to relaunch the XFL,” said Khan. “That probably also had an effect on my thinking because that sounded like a terrible idea to me. The amount of money they were going to put into it, when the NFL is such a dominant competitor and the NFL is so strong. And I was proven right because the XFL did go bankrupt. I thought, ‘That’s not going to work.’ You know what would work? A second wrestling league.”
Khan went on to note why he thought AEW would be successful. To him, the sheer number of wrestling talent outside of WWE was too large.
“There are way more wrestlers out there to start a second wrestling league. If I built a challenger wrestler league, the roster of that league would be so much better, comparatively, than the roster of the XFL. It wouldn’t even be close. As a viewer of the sport, as somebody who loves football and wrestling, wrestling needs a second league a lot more than football does. I think we were proven true of that.”
Khan‘s thoughts ended up being true. The XFL would go on to be bought by The Rock in 2020, and merged with the USFL in 2023. As for AEW, the company grew into one of the biggest wrestling companies in the world, and a competitor to WWE.
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