Tony Khan considering AEW injury report show

Tony Khan is open to the idea of changing how his company announces injuries.

The AEW president was a guest on Wrestling Observer Radio this weekend and spoke about the challenges regarding publicizing when a wrestler is injured. According to Khan, he’s considering launching an AEW injury report show but there are times when he’s not able to give away too much information.

“Sometimes it’s because people have private medical situations,” Khan said about why his company will sometimes not disclose talent injuries. “Sometimes I don’t want to give out too much info about what is happening with somebody. Sometimes we probably, to your point, could communicate it more clearly.”

“I’ve been thinking about doing an injury report show and I had some different thoughts on it, about doing something like talking about the injury report for social media. And I think the most important thing is making sure people are comfortable. I don’t want to talk too much about people’s injuries if they don’t want me to but some of them are in the context of a wrestling match.”

“Some injuries people might not want to talk about it. There are some things where people are very sensitive about the injuries that they’ve had to overcome. Sometimes it’s not a positive memory, these injuries can be a really painful memory for the wrestlers. But to your point, there are probably times that I could communicate it better, we should communicate it differently.”

Khan specifically mentioned how AEW handled Kenny Omega’s diverticulitis diagnosis late last year as an example of AEW being transparent about injured talent. Other AEW talent currently out injured include Adam Copeland, Adam Cole, Darby Allin, Powerhouse Hobbs, Chuck Taylor, Eddie Kingston, Bandido, and Jamie Hayter.

The full interview with Tony Khan is available here.