During the AEW Worlds End 2024 media conference call, AEW President Tony Khan was asked whether Dynamite and Collision will continue to be two hours long in 2025 due to the new media rights deal with Warner Bros. Discovery.
Khan stated that this will indeed be the case starting next year.
You can check out some highlights from the media call below:
On AEW’s two-hour format: “Yeah that’s definitely the plan, thanks for asking. We are planning to continue with two hours of Dynamite on Wednesdays and two hours of Collision on Saturdays. Every once in a while, TBS and TNT are very kind to give us an overrun of several minutes, and that can be great when there’s a really exciting main event or a huge moment that is happening, and a lot of times we’ve had great flexibility from our partners, but generally it’s around two hours, and that is the plan going forward.”
On a possible women’s Continental Classic: “I think the [women’s] division is very strong and really, we’ve had some of our best matches in the history of AEW women’s wrestling this year. So absolutely, I think the potential is there to have a great Round Robin tournament. The scheduling is very intense, and I’ll be honest, we’ve had a lot of injuries in the women’s division in recent years. This tournament takes a toll. We saw this year that Juice Robinson was injured in the first week, and I thought we were very fortunate not to have many other severe injuries with the hard-hitting nature of the tournament.”
On how it could potentially be an exciting tournament: “I think a women’s Continental Classic potentially could be a very, very exciting tournament. We’ve had some of our top wrestlers in the women’s division returning from injuries recently. If we get everybody healthy, I do think it’s something I’m very interested in. It is a very grueling and challenging tournament for many reasons.”
On the current women’s division in AEW: “I think that right now, the quality of women’s wrestling in AEW is the highest it’s ever been, and we’re continuing to build and have more great matches, more great rivalries….We have a great, great group right now, and I think it’s the strongest it’s ever been. So I’m hoping to continue building on that, and if we keep everybody healthy and keep building and moving in that direction, I definitely think a great tournament like that would be a great development in continuing the great work that the women’s wrestlers in AEW have been doing.”
