Tony Khan discusses booking the Hammerstein Ballroom for upcoming AEW and ROH events.
AEW recently announced its final 2024 tour dates and its first set of dates for 2025. At the end of 2024, AEW will be presenting three nights of action at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan, New York. These shows will include an episode of AEW Collision, AEW's Christmas episode of Dynamite, and ROH's Final Battle 2024 pay-per-view.
Speaking to Fightful's Iridian Fierro for WGN Radio, Tony Khan expressed his excitement for the upcoming events. He would say it's always been a dream of his to book the Hammerstein Ballroom and he's excited to present the first episode of wrestling television from that venue to air on TBS and TNT.
"Since I was a kid, I've wanted to put pro wrestling in Hammerstein Ballroom. There's been events there in the past, and it's never on TBS and TNT. So it'll be the TBS and TNT debut for the Hammerstein Ballroom. So it's very cool to bring that great tradition here to the Superstation and to TNT. It's going to be a big deal for us. That's going to be a great way to spend the holidays. Those will be our December shows. It'll be the Continental Classic. It's a great time of year. We'll be going into our World's End pay-per-view, and we'll be having a live Collision on December 21, New York, Hammerstein Ballroom, and also then the Christmas AEW Dynamite. There will be Dynamite on Christmas night. So it'll be very cool. We're taping that show on the Sunday going into Christmas. So, we'll do Saturday and Sunday. AEW at Hammerstein Ballroom, Ring of Honor [on] Friday night, also. So a three-night stand for us should be a lot of fun."
Elsewhere in the interview, Tony Khan spoke about licensing "November Rain" by Guns N' Roses for a music video previewing AEW Full Gear. Read his comments here.
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