AEW’s Tony Khan spoke with the media after All Out last night and he spoke about allowing superstars to engage with third party platforms to make extra money and pursue other interests.
This is obviously due to WWE recently sending out a memo that says all of their talent must stop using third party platforms such as Twitch and Cameo within the next 30 days.
Tony agrees that there is somewhat of a grey area when it comes to side sponsorships but otherwise said that their AEW superstars will never be asked to stop using these platforms.
Khan said, “I don’t want people to be concerned that I’m going to stop them from trying to monetize their Twitch or even appearance money and things of that nature. I think there are gray areas. I think, you know, all of these different mediums, all these platforms are different and I probably have different answers on different platforms. I think some sponsorship stuff is a gray area. You know, if one of your big star wrestlers was to go try and get a Pepsi sponsorship under their Twitch and not as a wrestler, you’d be like, well, that seems like you’re trying to circumvent the company.”
Continuing, Tony said he definitely supports wrestlers pursuing interests outside of wrestling. He said, “I support people going out and trying to get on Twitter to monetize that platform. I’m okay with people monetizing their YouTube, which I think is very clear here because a lot of people have YouTube shows and famously, Being The Elite, The Young Bucks’ show is not on the AEW channel, but we support it and our wrestlers are all over it but it’s not AEW’s show and I think a lot of our wrestlers have their own vlogs, and shows, and social media properties.”
What do you think of Tony Khan seeming to take the opposite stance that WWE did? Let us know in the comments below. You can watch Tony’s post All Out media scrum below.
Thanks to Fightful for the transcription.
