Khan assists in the running of Fulham and the Jacksonville Jaguars, but another one of his businesses is thriving - All Elite Wrestling
Before Khan spoke with, he’d just finished a 90-minute Zoom call with the manager and senior figures at Fulham. The call came two days before the London club made a record-breaking sale, with striker Aleksandar Mitrovic joining Saudi Arabian club Al Hilal for aBut for the 40-year-old, there’s another focus looming. On August 27, Khan will promote what’s being advertised as the biggest professional wrestling event of all time.
Ask him about how big a wrestling fan he was and is, and he tells this story: “I gained admission to the University of Illinois Laboratory High School. It was the top public academic high school. I did not want to attend because none of my friends would be going there. I took the exam, and I did very well. My parents told me they really wanted me to go. I said, ‘Well, you told me I didn’t have to go if I passed the test.
Khan kept booking virtual shows. They were always called “Dynamite” at first. When he was 28, he wrote a show called “Rampage” for the first time. There’s a good chance they do break the biggest paid-for attendance record. It’s a serious moment for AEW, as Khan wants to challenge the behemoth that is the WWE — founded in 1953 and valued this year at $9.1 billion as part of their merger with UFC.
“I was able to cultivate relationships with media partners that had great experience broadcasting wrestling. “Tony walked in the door with the right capital, the right relationships with media partners, the right team of talent, administrative executives, production people — it’s all very top-notch,” Jarrett said. “The time was right to launch a new company.”
“I met Tony, I talked to him for five minutes. I’m like, ‘Oh, he gets it,’” Wight said. “He understands at its core what it’s about.”In his working life, Khan has entered three different industries in the sporting realm that he had never worked — and succeeded. “They say great men are the ones that can change their opinion when they listen to others. He’s not just listening: he will change. He doesn’t assume his way is the only way.Fulham head coach Marco Silva agreed: “My relationship with Tony, my relationship with the chairman, my relationship with Alistair is really good. And more than that, it has been honest because I know we don’t agree on everything. In football, it’s almost impossible to agree on everything.
“A normal day would involve a lot of text messages and then a late-night UK call. Today, he was still up in America, so he does a morning UK call as well. Sometimes, I haven’t achieved that much between the late-night call I receive and the morning call — apart from sleeping.” “I was still in my 20s when I started to build the football analytics and statistics team at the Jaguars that did not exist when my dad bought that club in 2012,” Khan said. “AEW, the Jaguars and Fulham are such a big part of my life that it is part of my balance.”
“I’ve been able to learn from him up close and he’s been very giving of his time to me and is always very willing to explain why he does things or how the mechanics of certain processes or situations work in business.”“I had never had a hotel paid for — unless it was international — with WWE. In the U.S., you pay for all your own expenses.“Vince was always the boss,” Wight adds. “You never for one second made the mistake of thinking that Vince McMahon was your close friend.
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