AEW’s Tony Khan: We Don’t Want To Burn Through Dream Matches Like WCW

Much has been said about AEW being ‘the new WCW’ for better and for worse, but Tony Khan doesn’t want to repeat one of WCW’s biggest mistakes by blowing through the amount of ‘dream matches’ they have at their disposal just for the sake of it.

With major talents on the AEW roster like CM Punk and Bryan Danielson, never mind their home-grown talents, and legends such as Sting, it would be easy to stack every Dynamite and Rampage, but in conversation at the Monaco Streaming Film Festival, Khan said he wants to let things pan out:

“We have a great chance here to build an office, and keep gaining new fans, and one of the key things I’ve tried to do here with AEW is hold back a lot. When you’re in a position with a lot of talent and you can unload and do big matches, I think it’s very tempting to just unload the clip and start putting hot, big matches out there. I am doing that but I’m not going to use them all up in one week or two weeks, and burn through all of the great stories that I feel could last for years here. So I am trying to be methodical in terms of not killing the golden goose.”

Khan continued:

“I think WCW built one of the greatest rosters ever in wrestling, and they were competing with WWF in the ’90s. And I thought one of the mistakes they made is they had so many exciting matches in WCW and it was like week, after week, after week they burned through them, but not only did they burn through them, there were very unsatisfying conclusions. A lot of them ended in disqualification or something that wouldn’t make me that hungry to watch a rematch. Despite all of this, I can talk with the benefit of hindsight about the business mistakes WCW made. They also rose to incredible heights and proved that it’s possible for a wrestling company to do this.”

H/T: Wrestling Inc.