{"id":166566,"date":"2023-09-28T22:24:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T03:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=166566"},"modified":"2023-09-28T22:24:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T03:24:47","slug":"aew-president-tony-khan-discusses-his-thoughts-on-a-deeper-financial-partnership-with-wbd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/09\/28\/aew-president-tony-khan-discusses-his-thoughts-on-a-deeper-financial-partnership-with-wbd\/","title":{"rendered":"AEW president Tony Khan discusses his thoughts on a deeper financial partnership with WBD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1535158804\" 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 was asked if WBD owns a minority stake in AEW at the WrestleDream media scrum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, it\u2019s something we\u2019ve talked about a lot,\u201d said Khan. \u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of conversations about that. It\u2019s always been something I\u2019ve been open to. Between Warner Brothers Discovery and myself, a lot of the financial and structural details, we\u2019ve been able to keep between us, but there are things I\u2019ve always said to be true: that I own 100% of the voting stock in this company and that I have 100% decision-making power in the company. I\u2019ve been open to taking on additional partnerships or things of that nature, but we have a really great deal right now with Warner Brothers Discovery and I would love to have an even longer agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Khan evenutally went on to say that he wouldn&#8217;t be opposed to WBD owning a piece of AEW as long as he retained full voting rights. \u201cAs for them and their stake in the business, that is something that would be between us, but I would also be open to Warner Brothers Discovery in a future deal having a piece or a bigger piece potentially,&#8221; said Khan. &#8220;But I would always want to maintain 100% voting control, as I have now and want to maintain the super majority of stock, which I have now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1041147659\"><div id=\"pwtor-519152200\"><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 was asked if WBD owns a minority stake in AEW at the WrestleDream media scrum. \u201cWell, it\u2019s something we\u2019ve talked about a lot,\u201d said Khan. \u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of conversations about that. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/09\/28\/aew-president-tony-khan-discusses-his-thoughts-on-a-deeper-financial-partnership-with-wbd\/\" title=\"AEW president Tony Khan discusses his thoughts on a deeper financial partnership with WBD\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":86965,"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":[],"class_list":["post-166566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew-news","category-prowrestlingnews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/10\/KhanTony_3x2_600.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166566","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166567,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166566\/revisions\/166567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}