AEW: Tony Khan Donated $100K to Charity for NFL Neck Brace, Will Ospreay on Hoping AEW Hires Scott D’Amore to Help ROH, Airing Updates for 5/31 Rampage & 6/1 Collision, More News

May 30, 2024

Tony Khan Donated $100,000 to Charity for His NFL Neck Brace

Wednesday’s episode of The Rich Esien Show featured AEW CEO Tony Khan as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Khan announcing that instead of auctioning off the autographed neck brace he wore at this past April’s 2024 NFL Draft event for an originally planned charity auction, he will donate $100,000 to the St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.

Khan also stated that the neck brace can remain on the set of Eisen’s show as AEW’s gift to him.

.@AEW owner/CEO @TonyKhan stopped by ahead of #AEWDynamite here in Los Angeles to talk about getting a TK Driver, wearing the neck brace in the @Jaguars #NFLDraft war room and why it’ll be forever in our studios!

Just an amazing gesture for @stjude:#AEW @TBSNetwork pic.twitter.com/qLL4mFVwfh
— Rich Eisen Show (@RichEisenShow) May 29, 2024

Thank you @richeisen for having me on today to talk about AEW!

It’s an honor to be on @RichEisenShow +
I’m honored to donate $100,000 to @StJude on behalf of @AEW, and affix the neck brace to your uncanny bust!@toojiggy, see you at Wednesday Night #AEWDynamite on TBS tonight! pic.twitter.com/ogxxY4uBIO
— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) May 29, 2024

Khan wore the neck brace as part of him selling the effects of The Elite’s attack on him during the April 24th AEW Dynamite show in Jacksonville, Florida.

Will Ospreay Comments on Being Hopeful AEW Hires Scott D’Amore in Future to Help Out ROH

Adrian Hernandez held a recent interview with Will Ospreay. One of the topics discussed included Ospreay’s thoughts about him being currently hopeful that AEW hires former TNA Wrestling President Scott D’Amore in the future to help run Ring of Honor.

“Having the initials TNA. I remember when I was back there for the IMPACT show where they announced it was going to be TNA in January. I looked in the ring and I saw Scott D’Amore in there. I can’t tell you enough how much respect I have for Scott D’Amore. If there was anything that I want to put out there; if there was a way that AEW could hire Scott D’Amore in any type of fashion. Have that guy run Ring of Honor or something. The passion that he had for TNA, and just how he completely single handily transformed that company. I watched him say ‘this is TNA,’ and I saw Josh Alexander in there, Jordynne Grace, Gisele Shaw, all these guys, and I was like, ‘Yeah, that was TNA! That is TNA!’ All the guys they have backstage, that is TNA.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

May 31st Rampage & June 1st Collision Shows Airing Status Updates

This week’s AEW Rampage and Collision shows are currently scheduled to be preempted on TNT due to TNT’s current commitments with the 2024 NBA and NHL Playoffs on their network.

In regards to this week’s Rampage show on May 31st this show is currently scheduled to air starting at 6:30PM EST based on a recent schedule listing update by the network.

In regards to this week’s Collision show on June 1st, this show is currently scheduled to air starting at 12:00AM EST on Sunday, June 2nd instead based on a recent schedule listing update as well.

AEW News & Notes

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that several Warner Bros Discovery executives were in attendance at Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show at The Kia Forum in Inglewood, California.

The Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer reported that this past Sunday’s AEW Double or Nothing 2024 event generated around 20,000 searches and a #11 ranking on Google for that night. Meltzer reported that this was the first time that an AEW pay-per-view event managed to generate more Google searches than a WWE PPV event following this past Saturday’s WWE King & Queen of the Ring 2024 event generated under 20,000 searches that day.

WWE talent Bayley was among the guests at a post-show party Mercedes Mone held in Las Vegas, Nevada following this past Sunday’s AEW Double or Nothing 2024 event in the city.

Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that AEW officials have held recent talks regarding creative plans for Megan Bayne’s potential official full-time debut in the company in the future. It was reported that while AEW officials have made recent creative pitches, it is currently not known if or when Bayne would make her full-time debut and Bayne has recently received interest from other promotions.

AEW musical composer Mikey Rukus recently paid tribute on Twitter to singer Susie Monk Johnson who passed away this past Tuesday. Johnson was the singer of Toni Storm’s original entrance theme in AEW. Rukus stated “I am saddened to learn that Susie Monk Johnson (aka Suzie Mojo), singer on Toni Storm’s Theme “Watch What’s Next”, has passed away. Humble & kind, she was a local musician from my area. She leaves behind a husband & 2 daughters. My heartfelt condolences.“

Sony recently announced that AEW Fight Forever will be among the game offerings for this June’s free set of games to play for PlayStation Plus subscribers.

In a recent interview with CBS Sports, AEW CEO Tony Khan gave his thoughts about Bryan Danielson’s future in AEW. Khan stated “I would like Bryan to stay, in a perfect world, forever here in whatever capacity he’d stay with us in. I’d hope that Bryan would finish his wrestling career here. I would do anything to make that happen. I want Bryan to stay with us wrestling as long as possible. I know that he’s talked about an exit from full-time wrestling, which is what he’s been doing this year whenever he’s been healthy. The only thing better than that is to have Bryan Danielson stepping up for the company, AEW, and fighting on our behalf. He’s said a lot of great things about why he wants to be in this match and about why he wanted to come to AEW. I appreciate some of the complimentary things he’s said about me personally, but especially I appreciate the things he’s said about AEW and what we do here and why he loves AEW. I think Bryan Danielson fits on AEW like a glove. As long as he will consider wrestling with us, that door is always open. I would bend over backwards for him and do anything for Bryan Danielson.” Khan also gave his thoughts about if he will be able to come to terms with Danielson for a new contract. Khan stated “I definitely think so. I hope so. I don’t know whether he’ll be wrestling full-time after that but I really hope Bryan will stay with me here in the office forever… I talk to Bryan pretty much every day whenever I can. So I hope that will continue for the rest of our lives.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

AEW announced that MJF will be making his official Dynamite return appearance at next week’s AEW Dynamite show on June 5th in Loveland, Colorado. This will be MJF’s first Dynamite appearance since this past December due to a shoulder injury.

AEW also announced one new match for the card of next week’s AEW Dynamite show on June 5th in Loveland. This match announced was a singles match of Mariah May vs. Saraya. This match was originally advertised to take place on Wednesday’s Dynamite show in Inglewood, California but got moved to next week’s show instead for reasons currently not known.

AEW also announced one new match for the card of this week’s taped AEW Collision show on June 1st in Palm Desert, California:

AEW International Championship – Kyle O’Reilly vs. Will Ospreay (c)

AEW also announced four new matches for the card of this week’s taped AEW Rampage show on May 31st:

Vacant TNT Championship Ladder Qualifier match – Konosuke Takeshita vs. Penta El Zero Miedo
“Timeless” Toni Storm vs. Viva Van
Satnam Singh vs. mystery opponent
Kyle O’Reilly vs. mystery opponent