8 Times AEW's Tony Khan Was A DISASTER-TIER Booker
6. Ring Of Honor On AEW Television
All Elite Wrestling had a red-hot run when it first appeared in 2019. Outside of the understandable presentation quirks that come with broadcasting a wrestling promotion for the first time, there were very little dissenting voices around the upstart company. When this changed depends on your vantage point, but muddying the waters of AEW television after buying Ring of Honor is undoubtedly one of those touch-points.
AEW had made a big deal of engaging fans to get behind the brand. Wrestlers would cut promos talking about their love for the promotion on almost every show and selling the company as the saviour of pro wrestling. When Tony Khan bought Ring of Honor, nobody was bummed about it. But when you start Ring of Honor matches and championships on appeared on AEW programming, it was confusing for viewers who'd bought into the "AEW over everything" rhetoric.
Even considering Ring of Honor's exemplary reputation with the kind of fan that was looking for a WWE alternative, this was another company taking airtime away from the AEW superstars and championships that fans had been asked to invest in. It took far too long for ROH to be banished from AEW's shows, and the whole experiment only succeeded in slowing the momentum AEW had built up.