AEW President Tony Khan appeared on the Battleground podcast yesterday and claimed that AEW has “really closed the gap in a very meaningful way” compared to WWE in 2025 in a number of key metrics.

Khan did not specify which key metrics they closed the gap with as television ratings and attendance every week have not improved.

“I think AEW is where the best wrestle. I think that we have the best roster of wrestlers in the world today. And we’re putting on consistently awesome shows,” Khan said.

He said that his passion for the business isn’t going anywhere and he dreamt about doing this for over 30 years.

“Now we’ve been doing it for six years in the real world and I don’t ever want to stop with AEW,” Khan continued.

Khan listed the great pay-per-views, great Dynamites, great Collisions, and great partnership with HBO Max as something that separates this year from the rest.

He noted that hopefully in the years to come, they can visit new countries and continue to build AEW where it’s watched all over the world.

“And here in America, I just want to keep doing what we’re doing, because it’s amazing. To have a wrestling promotion that is a challenger company doing the things that we’re doing, some of them are unprecedented and some of them are things that have not been done in over 25 years,” Khan said.