Tony Khan Shares That He Felt ‘Embattled’ Around AEW Full Gear 2024, Says Vibe Around 2025 Full Gear Is ‘180 Degrees The Other Way’
Tony Khan speaks about how he’s feeling coming off the heels of Full Gear 2025.
All Elite Wrestling wrapped its 2025 Full Gear pay-per-view. After the event was the post-show media scrum, and AEW President Tony Khan fielded questions from the media.
He was asked how he felt around the time of Full Gear 2024 in comparison to how he feels present day. Khan said he felt ’embattled’ in 2024, but at Full Gear 2025, that feeling is 180 degrees in the opposite direction.
“One year ago, sitting in this chair today, I felt — I don’t feel now — one year ago and today, it’s 180 degrees the other way. Felt, one year ago, embattled. I feel the opposite. Doing the 10,000 fans and having the Full Gear show felt like the beginning of a turnaround and that’s really what everybody — the vibe — the Full Gear last year, was like, ‘This feels like the beginning of a big turnaround for us,’ and you look at one year later and it feels like we’re on such a great run this year… But I felt like one year ago, that was a beginning of a great run of things that now, like you said, full circle it feels like. A total opposite feeling where it feels like, a year ago, it felt like the beginning of a turnaround and now it feels like just flow momentum and what a great year we’re having…”
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