AEW has been running since 2019 and offers fans a replacement for booking WWE and its talent. While talking to Ilana Golan at Leap Academy, Tony Khan explained how to inspire his creation by announcing Vince McMahon’s return to XFL in 2018.
“In 2018, the McMahon family announced they were rebooting the XFL, which probably had an impact on my thoughts as well.
“When the NFL is a very dominant competitor and the NFL is very strong, the amount they were trying to put in it proved correct as the XFL went bankrupt. Do you know what works? Second Dress Ring League. ”
Khan argued that the pool of wrestlers is so large that it’s easier to build challengers in the XFL than to fight the NFL. As a wrestling and soccer fan, Kern argued that it was proven right, adding that wrestling needs more leagues than football.
The XFL was discarded in 2020, but it was the Covid-19 pandemic that ultimately doomed McMahon’s second attempt in football. The league was bought by Lock in the same year and merged with the USFL in November 2023 to create the UFL.
Six years after AEW was announced, the company remains the biggest directional competition facing WWE. You can see if the company will become number one in wrestling.
