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Starting from ground zero in 2019, All Elite Wrestling has since risen to arguably be
the second biggest professional wrestling promotion of the modern era, behind WWE. During the
target=”_blank”>AEW All Out post-show media scrum, AEW President Tony Khan reflected on
the company’s rapid growth, describing it as an “unprecedented success story” similar to that of
the former American Football League (AFL).
El crecimiento de All Elite Wrestling
Starting from ground zero in 2019, All Elite Wrestling has since risen to arguably be the second biggest
professional wrestling promotion of the modern era, behind WWE. During the AEW All Out post-show media scrum,
AEW President Tony Khan reflected on the company’s rapid growth, describing it as an “unprecedented success
story” similar to that of the former American Football League (AFL).
Comparación con la AFL
“As a historian of sports, as I’m getting ready for NFL kickoff and getting ready to head down to Miami for the
Jaguars kicking-off hours from now, I have to say that the last time that a challenger sports league in this
continent had the percentage of the market that AEW has in their industry would be the AFL,” Khan said. “The AFL
was a great sports league. They had great stars. The NFL is the biggest media enterprise in the world and the AFL
came in and they got real market share.”
El éxito de AEW
“Of course, we all know they merged; it created the Super Bowl, the greatest game, the greatest entertainment
property,” Khan added. “Together, the NFC and the AFC form the NFL, the greatest sport, the greatest media
enterprise and the greatest marketing machine in the world.”
Potencial de AEW
As Khan mentioned, the AFL emerged as a legitimate competitor to the National Football League (NFL) throughout
the 1960s, so much so that the NFL proposed the idea of a merger that later went into full effect in 1970.
Though Khan made no indication of a merger happening between AEW and WWE, he remains proud of AEW’s own surging
market share — one that he believes could potentially solidify his wrestling company as the second most profitable
in industry history. Most recently, AEW sold over 50,000 tickets for its 2024 All In pay-per-view event,
surpassing that milestone for the second year in a row.
Conclusión
En resumen, All Elite Wrestling ha experimentado un crecimiento rápido desde su inicio en 2019 y se ha convertido
en una de las principales promociones de lucha libre profesional de la era moderna. Tony Khan, presidente de AEW,
ha comparado el éxito de la empresa con el de la antigua American Football League (AFL), destacando la obtención
de una cuota significativa en el mercado. Aunque no se ha mencionado una posible fusión entre AEW y WWE, Khan
confía en que AEW pueda consolidarse como la segunda empresa de lucha libre más rentable de la historia de la
industria. Con logros como la venta de más de 50,000 boletos para su evento All In, AEW continúa demostrando su
crecimiento y éxito en el mercado.