Tony Khan comments on special Dynamite announcement

Tony Khan isn’t budging on what the surprise is for this week’s episode of Dynamite and believes he has the right talent in place for the kind of hype the surprise has gotten to this point.

In an interview with PWInsider, Khan openly discussed his thought process on surprises in AEW, past surprises like C.M. Punk, and delivering for fans.

“It’s really exciting that we’re in this position right now,” Khan said. “I think it’s a little bit of apples and oranges because C.M. Punk as the first dance is a very specific example where we made it very clear it was going to be him and I wouldn’t have brought out anybody else. There are other huge stars in wrestling that would’ve been great debuts on any other night, but that was not the night for those people. That’s a little bit different. Here, I don’t think I’ve exactly been so specific about who’s coming, but I said it’s going to be a major signing for us and I think it’s going to be a very exciting night.

“Like I said, I have opened the forbidden door and I don’t want to say exactly what’s going to happen or when it’s going to happen, but it’s going to be an eventful night. And I hope that people get their expectations met. And frankly, I’ve seen a lot of other speculations and there’s a lot of great names out there. And anything we do on this particular Wednesday night Dynamite, it doesn’t limit us in the future from finding some of these other people. There’s a lot of exciting names and opening the forbidden door there will allow to these big names.

“So there are a lot of possibilities and I don’t want to get too specific on the speculation, but there’s going to be somebody who’s going to sign with AEW going forward and be a part of the company and as I also said, I would open the forbidden door, and without getting too specific to what that mean is, it’s definitely opened up some speculation, but I think in a good way and I would be nervous or I wouldn’t be feeling good right now if I didn’t believe that we have the people in hand and they’re going to be in Atlantic city. But we do have those people. So it’s going to be a really fun night for the fans, I think, and also be some great wrestling on the card and a lot to look forward to.

“There’s been some stuff, like I said, that’s been announced. But there’s also going to be some other really exciting things on the show that have not been announced yet, more than one exciting thing on the show that have not been announced. So I’m really looking forward to this.”

AEW has been promoting a “huge announcement” for tonight’s episode, which has led to speculation of Keith Lee, Samoa Joe, Jeff Hardy, and others joining the company. Tonight’s Dynamite also features Lance Archer vs. Adam Page for the AEW World Championship in a Texas Deathmatch, a summit with Inner Circle, an MJF promo on the heels of defeating C.M. Punk last week, and more.

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