6 Reasons Why AEW is a Huge Gamechanger for the Wrestling Business

#1 Billionaire Backing

Tony Khan and his father Shahid Khan

It’s one thing to talk the talk, but it’s a completely different thing to walk the walk. So sure, saying you’re going to change the wrestling world is all well and good, but how really are you going to do that?

Enter, Shahid and Tony Khan.

When you have literal billionaires backing your plan to change the wrestling world, yeah, that’s a gamechanger if ever there was one. And that is indeed the case with All Elite Wrestling.

Matt Jackson, Nick Jackson, Cody Rhodes and Brandi Rhodes may be those tasked with putting together AEW, but it’s the financing afforded by the Khans that really ups the ante.

Previously, the WWE was the only gig in town that could offer the major bucks on a regular basis – even more so now that their deal with Fox is looming large – and pro wrestlers were left with a lack of viable career options if they wanted to make some serious money. Companies such as Ring of Honor, Evolve, and Dragon Gate were great for in-ring satisfaction, and New Japan has never been a more viable option than it is right now, but none of those could offer up the amount of money that the WWE could.

Well now, that could be about to change.

Remember how WCW changed game in the mid-‘90s when Ted Turner started splashing the cash? Sure, that eventually went south due to massive mismanagement, but the point is that Billionaire Ted and his pursestrings had the then-WWF running scared.

With another majorly-backed player now on the scene in the shape of AEW, that offers up further opportunities for talent, in turn threatening to give Vinny Mac some major competition.