All Elite Wrestling (AEW) is preparing for their next event All Out. Shortly after their pay-per-view, the company will be debuting their television show on TNT.
Speaking with SiriusXM’s Busted Open Radio, Cody has discussed AEW’s approach to working with TNT. He asserted that the promotion doesn’t work for TNT, but instead works with them in a joint effort to create something new for wrestling fans.
“We can look at it like we are answering to them or we are working together with them,” he said. “I learned right away how good of a partner Warner Media and Turner was going to be when I was tying Matt Jackson’s tie in the back of a car service taking us to the Upfronts to the carpet where we were going to announce our show, and they tweeted that fire graphic and wrote that ‘Wrestling is returning to TNT.’ Since then, we couldn’t have asked for a more finger-on-the-pulse partner.”
Working With, Not Answering To
Cody explained that no one currently working for the Warner Media Group was there during WCW. Cody considers this a “massive blessing” as there has been no pre-existing grudges or misconceptions of what pro wrestling is or should be.
He also spoke about the current president of TNT, Kevin Reilly, and how he supports AEW’s mission.
“He has listened and looked at all of us in the eye and has asked us what is important to us. What is our passion about? What makes us different than any other wrestling out there? He likes our mission,” Cody stated. “Our mission is sometimes more popular than any wrestler on the card. The vision of what this is and the fact that there could be something else on television, there could be this alternative. So, yeah, I look at working with them instead of answering to them, and they have been wonderful in this build to the very first TV.”
Before that, however, is All Out. The fallout from this event on August 31st, which includes crowning an inaugural champion, will no doubt lay the groundwork for the promotion’s storylines ahead of their television debut on October 2nd.
H/T to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription
