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Update on Tony Khan/Biilly Corgan AEW/NWA

Added 2022-08-12 16:59:06 +0000 UTC

NWA and AEW haven't done business since last year, but we're told the relationship is fine.

Last year, Tony Khan made it known he paid for the All Elite Wrestling talent that ended up working the NWA Empowerrr event, after the National Wrestling Alliance didn't. Corgan noted when he spoke to Fightful that the event didn't emerge as commercially successful as he'd hoped, and didn't want to grovel.

When we asked Corgan about the situation Corgan told us:

"It wasn’t a miscommunication. Tony has my number and honestly, I wish he had reached out privately on that if he had any issue with that. The fact that he went public with something and the other part of the equation was he talked about stuff without giving the other end of the equation. The other end of the equation I’ve never talked about publicly. So it would be like if you went—let’s pretend me and you were having a little bit of an issue—and you went public and said, ‘Billy should thank me for driving that car that he’s driving because I paid for the tires,’ right? So people might go, ‘Oh, yeah, Billy should thank him.’ If I don’t tell you the other end of the deal that was made, well, that does sound like it was kind of a one way street. But that’s not the deal. I’ve never talked about the other end of the deal. "I don’t think I should talk about the other end of the deal, but let’s put it this way—there was another end of the deal that he conveniently didn’t mentioned. I don’t have any issue with Tony. I think Tony’s done a tremendous job. Tony’s made it easier for me to operate in wrestling. When I go into business meetings with networks and talk to them, they look at AEW’s success as an indication that the market is shifting, that WWE doesn’t control the market like they did for twenty years. So I can only thank Tony [for making it easier] for me."

We've heard that Tony Khan and Billy Corgan are in fact on good terms, and neither seems to take issue with what either have said.

Our full interview drops Sunday, with early access Saturday