During a recent appearance on “WGN Radio,” AEW President Tony Khan mentioned that he has dreamed of hosting a wrestling event at the Hammerstein Ballroom for years.
Khan will finally have that opportunity next month with ROH Final Battle 2024 and AEW Collision and Dynamite episodes.
Khan said, “Since I was a kid, I’ve wanted to put pro wrestling in Hammerstein Ballroom. There’s been events there in the past, and it’s never on TBS and TNT. So it’ll be the TBS and TNT debut for the Hammerstein Ballroom. So it’s very cool to bring that great tradition here to the Superstation and to TNT. It’s going to be a big deal for us. That’s going to be a great way to spend the holidays. Those will be our December shows. It’ll be the Continental Classic. It’s a great time of year. We’ll be going into our World’s End pay-per-view, and we’ll be having a live Collision on December 21, New York, Hammerstein Ballroom, and also then the Christmas AEW Dynamite. There will be Dynamite on Christmas night. So it’ll be very cool. We’re taping that show on the Sunday going into Christmas. So, we’ll do Saturday and Sunday. AEW at Hammerstein Ballroom, Ring of Honor [on] Friday night, also. So a three-night stand for us should be a lot of fun.”
During a recent interview with Q101, Tony Khan also shared the details for this year’s AEW Continental Classic tournament.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On the field for this year’s Continental Classic tournament: “We need to see the results of Full Gear. Who’s injured? Who’s going to maintain that standard of wrestling for the rest of the year, up until the culmination of the Continental Classic? I would not want to announce the field and then immediately have to take it back.”
On NJPW’s G1 Climax being the only peer for the Continental Classic: “It is a tournament that has only one peer in wrestling, and I think that is the G1. When the Continental Classic launched, I think it quenched the thirst here in America for such a tournament.”
