AEW Baas Tony Khan talks ‘Dynamite’ surpasses ‘Nitro’ episode counting
All elite struggle (AEW) and the weekly Wednesday evening show “Dynamite” will pass an important milestone in the Pro Wrestling World.
The episode of 16 April of “Dynamite” on TBS will mark the 289th of the show, which means that it is officially broadcast longer than the 288 episodes produced by WCW’s “Monday Nitro”, which was broadcast on colleague Turner Network TNT from 1995-2001.
“It had a great influence on everyone who was looking for it at that time,” said AEW President, CEO and general manager Tony Khan about “Nitro” in an interview with Variety. “Some of the real highlights of professional wrestling from the 90s happened in that show.”
“Nitro” is one of the most important shows in the history of wrestling, which has fueled the so -called Monday evening wars against WWE and “Monday Night Raw” in the mid -1990s. In particular a devoted fan and student pro wrestling, in particular Khan early ‘nitro’, praised story lines such as ‘Macho Man’, the feud of Randy Savage with Ric Flair and the appearance of Lex Luger in the debut of the show as important moments in the history of ‘Nitro’s’ prior to the formation of the Nwo.
“You know, a common misconception is that the WCW really picked up and became very hot when the NWO started, but the company had already gotten really hot when the NWO came in,” he said. Khan continued to say that many competitions on “Nitro” contain a style of wrestling that was not at that time that was not typically seen in the US, but that it has since influenced the attention of the show, since then has influenced generations of wrestling people.
“There were many really great athletes, and part of the highest flying, fastest varied pro wrestling that you could find from the era,” he said. “And I think that style has really evolved and has risen to the top. The best pro greers in the world are not necessarily 400 or 500 pounds more.”
And while “Nitro” broadcast his last episode almost two decades before the launch of “Dynamite” on TNT (and later TBS), the two shows share an important common factor.
“There were so many great moments with stabbing [on ‘Nitro’]”Said Khan. “Sting is a large part of AEW, and long before there was ever a road, Sting has been struggling on TBS and TNT for many, many years … Many of my favorite memories that struggle on TBS and TNT Ric Flair and Sting.”
“Dynamite” comes from Boston on Wednesday with a special “Spring Breakthru” theme. The show will contain competitions such as AEW Trios Champions The Death Riders (Jon Moxley, Pac and Claudio Castagnoli) that record the OPPs (Samoa Joe, Katsuyori Shibata and Hook). Elsewhere on the map, several games are disputed as part of the Owen Hart Cup tournament, including hangman -page versus a wildcard participant, Will Ospreay versus Konosuke Takeshita and Athena versus Mercedes Moné.
AEW is also a few months in their new rights agreement with Warner Bros. Discovery, who first saw AEW live on Max on Max. Khan praised WBD head David Zaslav for the new deal and said that Zaslav personally told him: “I really want here, I believe in AEW.”
“He gave us that opportunity to not only keep this great milestone this week, but also to reach this new audience with Max, which I think is much of the future,” said Khan.
