Tony Khan has a lot to be proud of in 2022, but one highlight stands out for him among the rest.
All Elite Wrestling owner Tony Khan was the latest guest on The Battleground Podcast to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked what his highlight of 2022 was in the world of professional wrestling, Khan revealed it was the launch of the Forbidden Door pay-per-view between All Elite Wrestling and New Japan.
“I think launching a new event in Forbidden Door would probably be the big highlight,” Tony Khan said. “We’ve had such a great year; we brought back events that had been great for us in the past. I thought Revolution started the year out on pay-per-view and lived up to the original, where it was arguably the best show of the year, just like the original Revolution, and have had a great year since then.
“There’s been a lot of injuries, frankly some incidents along the way that it made it a complicated, challenging year, and whether it was a great Double or Nothing, having great matches at All Out, and then Full Gear, I thought was again, possibly the best pay-per-view of the year. We really maybe bookended the year with our strongest shows in Revolution and Full Gear.
“Both of them have always been great shows and lived up to it this year for sure. And I definitely thought with Forbidden Door launching now; we have a fifth pay-per-view event. And it was actually the most successful debut of any of our shows. We got this great partnership with New Japan Pro-Wrestling. So a lot of exciting things. So the launch of Forbidden Door was a major thing. Really the whole year it’s been a great year, and there’s a lot to talk about now going into 2023 with all the exciting things happening in AEW.”
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