{"id":145929,"date":"2022-09-07T19:25:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T00:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=145929"},"modified":"2022-09-07T19:25:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T00:25:16","slug":"tony-khan-announces-tournament-to-crown-a-new-aew-world-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/09\/07\/tony-khan-announces-tournament-to-crown-a-new-aew-world-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Khan announces tournament to crown a new AEW World Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-497878876\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Tony Khan announced to start AEW Dynamite this week that a tournament would be held to crown a new AEW World Champion. The tournament will begin this week on the show and feature Bryan Danielson, Adam Page, Darby Allin, Sammy Guevara, Chris Jericho, and Jon Moxley. It will conclude at the AEW Dynamite Grand Slam event at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AEW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AEW<\/a> President &amp; CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TonyKhan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TonyKhan<\/a> is here to address both the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AEW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AEW<\/a> World Championship &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AEW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AEW<\/a> World Trios Championship. Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AEWDynamite?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AEWDynamite<\/a> LIVE on TBS right now! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jZbNwOQgZL\">pic.twitter.com\/jZbNwOQgZL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEW\/status\/1567665161044987905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tony Khan announced that both the AEW World Championship and World Trios Championship were vacated. Khan didn&#8217;t explain why the titles were being vacated. Reports indicate that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/09\/07\/cm-punk-sustained-serious-injury-at-all-out-aew-world-title-situation-to-be-addressed-on-dynamite\/\">CM Punk was injured during his All Out main event<\/a> in which he won the world championship from Moxley. Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks won the World Trios Championship at All Out as well. The Bucks and Omega were suspended for a brawl with CM Punk backstage after he made comments about them during a media scrum. A punishment for CM Punk has not been revealed at this time.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH-UP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/09\/07\/cm-punk-storyline-with-the-elite-unlikely-after-all-out-incident\/\">CM Punk storyline with The Elite unlikely after All Out incident<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1785760009\"><div id=\"pwtor-925915848\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Tony Khan announced to start AEW Dynamite this week that a tournament would be held to crown a new AEW World Champion. The tournament will begin this week on the show and feature Bryan Danielson, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/09\/07\/tony-khan-announces-tournament-to-crown-a-new-aew-world-champion\/\" title=\"Tony Khan announces tournament to crown a new AEW World Champion\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":145933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6163,2],"tags":[6121,6463,6120],"class_list":["post-145929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew-news","category-prowrestlingnews","tag-aew","tag-aew-dynamite","tag-all-elite-wrestling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2022\/09\/Grand-Slam-Championship-Tournament.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145934,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145929\/revisions\/145934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}