Tony Khan: AEW Are The Market Leader In Certain Aspects

Tony Khan has said All Elite Wrestling are the market leader in "other aspects" of professional wrestling.

AEW Dynamite has been the second-most-watched wrestling show on TV in the key 18-49 demographic over the last two weeks, beating Monday Night Raw in the demo, and Tony Khan's promotion looks set to have another strong week with Dynamite: Grand Slam on September 22. 

Speaking with the Bloomberg Business Of Sports podcast about AEW and WWE being in competition, Tony Khan said: 

"The number one show in wrestling on TV last week was Dynamite. In some aspects, they're the market leader, but in other aspects, we're now the market leader. At the beginning, that may have been the case, but there were a lot of reasons why I felt I could come in and compete. There were a lot of wrestlers who were not being featured on television, and there were a lot of wrestling fans out there who were looking for an alternative product that weren't satisfied with what they were getting on those shows. I do think there was definitely a great opportunity to come in and compete. I saw some vulnerability, frankly, in the market leader at the time, and it's opened up a lot of market share for us, and for me to bootstrap a new business, build it up, and gain a lot of that market share where we are now in a lot of significant business metrics, we are now the worldwide leader."

Khan also reflected on the strength of AEW's women's division in a separate interview. Find out what he said here. 

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