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During an interview with Busted Open Radio, AEW President Tony Khan admitted he could have produced the debut of Satnam Singh on last week's Dynamite better.
The debut has drawn negative reactions as when the lights when out during the segment and came back on nobody knew who Singh was.
āI could have done it better. Itās one of those things, I wish I had done it differently because the fans are always going to be right so if the fans donāt like somethingā¦sometimes, there is something where youāre trying to get heat, so if youāre in a ātrying to get heat,ā situation people arenāt always going to love it, but there are things about it that I probably shouldāve done differently, now that I see in hindsight. To be honest, it wasnāt my idea to turn the lights out, but I am the ultimate filter and who everything goes through. I put the outline of the show together and when I came in Wednesday, I thought it was the best outline I had ever put together, one of them, at least. It was as much strong wrestling as you can fit into the program and I thought up until that point, the show was excellent. That was the one thing we went off on. People might not have liked it. Satnam is an important person for us, it was important to debut him in a meaningful way and to show that, with Jay Lethal, heās going to be a force to be reckoned with.ā
āAt the same time, turning the lights off for somebody people didnāt recognize, itās a great point. To be honest, the person who brought off turning the lights off has over 30 years of experience in pro wrestling. When they brought it up to me, I was only looking at the pros and I should have thought about the cons, because that is my job as the person who decides what goes in and who filters out these ideas. We have all these people in the room and somehow, not one person brought up the negative. When we did it, all the negatives were very obvious. Iām not going to say who it was and I donāt need to list all the credentials of all the great people around me in the production meeting, but it was a lot of veteran people. Nobody said that and when it happened, I agreed with the fans completely,ā he said. āWhen it came up, I said, āthat could work, itās different.ā I was looking for how to physically get him in there for that moment and somebody, like I said, with over 30 years of experience said, āwe could turn the lights out and do thisā and I went, āOkay.ā I should have seen the negatives before we did it and I really didnāt see them until it actually happened. Thatās not Satnamās fault, itās definitely not Jay Lethalās fault. At the same time, Iām very excited for it. It created a lot of buzz. Satnamās debut has been the most-watched thing out of the show and itās gotten international attention I wanted it to get, but I didnāt want it to loom over a lot of great stuff on the show either and I donāt think it has or will.ā
āI appreciate what their feedback was and now that Iām in my third year, I would not do that again and these are things you learn.ā
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