Josh Martinez of Z100 recently spoke with AEW President Tony Khan for an interview.

While on the show, the AEW boss-man addressed Mercedes Mone’s bookings outside of AEW, his thoughts on the AEW WrestleDream show and more.

The following are some of the highlights from the interview.

On how he feels Mercedes Mone’s bookings outside of AEW show her love for wrestling: “With all the commitments Mercedes has taken on, I think it’s really impressive. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, that shows it’s not about pure greed and money for Mercedes because a lot of these places she’s wrestling, Winnipeg, Canada, Denmark, they’re not the highest paying places. She’s not really making money from these. She loves wrestling. She loves building up companies, she loves meeting new young stars and she really cares about the craft and the sport of wrestling.”

On his mindset booking AEW WrestleDream: “Some of the top wrestling stars were away and I said, ‘I’m going to make this the best possible show and everyone’s going to say WrestleDream was the greatest event AEW could put on. And it’s going to be about the people who are here, and they’re going to love this event.’ And that’s how I felt at times in the lockdown, in the pandemic. If anybody wasn’t available, we would be creative, we would come up with the very best shows we could possibly put on in a unique environment. And that’s how I felt about WrestleDream. So we tried a lot of things at WrestleDream, and I really felt like it was very successful. I don’t think anybody had — to the best of my recollection, to the best of my knowledge — had ever had an event carry over [from pre-show into the PPV].”