Jaguars & AEW overlap as two unique sports & entertainment products

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – At TIAA Bank Field, determination person been things going connected implicit the past 2 years that aren’t going connected astatine immoderate different stadium successful the NFL. That’s due to the fact that the Khan family, who owns the Jaguars, has expanded beyond the satellite of sports. The Khans person spent tens of millions of dollars bringing sports amusement to the stadium complex, arsenic well.

The Khan household has started All Elite Wrestling (AEW), which has taped astir of its shows implicit astatine Daily’s Place for a nationalist assemblage for astir 2 years. The 2 entities, the Jaguars and AEW, person a batch of overlap. 

“Everybody successful the Jaguars rooting for AEW, everybody successful AEW rooting for the Jaguars. We’re each nether 1 umbrella,” said Paul Wight, who’s 1 of the astir well-known wrestlers connected the planet. 

Wight was hired by the Khans to articulation AEW successful the past fewer months. Standing astatine 7-feet gangly and considered a “Giant” successful wrestling for his adjacent 30-year career, Wight said helium understands what Jaguars players spell done and the players recognize the wrestlers. 

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“It’s large because, NFL athletes and pro wrestlers, we’ve each got a spot of insanity. There’s a portion of you that’s got a spot of a escaped stone upstairs to privation to punish yourself,” Wight said.

The lynchpin betwixt the 2 entities has been Jaguars proprietor Shad Khan’s son, Tony. Tony Khan created AEW and is simply a co-owner of the Jaguars. He’s besides heavy progressive successful 1 of the family’s different properties, the Fulham Football (soccer) Club successful England. 

“So I’m similar the wide manager, manager of shot of Fulham, elder vice president of analytics, proprietor of each 3 -- Fulham, AEW and the Jaguars. And I ain a batch of different businesses, too, truthful it’s similar truly complicated,” Tony Khan said successful a caller interview.

It’s been reported that Shad Khan gave Tony Khan an estimated $100 cardinal conscionable to commencement AEW successful 2019. Here’s a quote from Shad Khan astir investing the wealth that helium gave to Forbes.com:  “Look, erstwhile I’m dormant and gone, I’m going to beryllium leaving you and your sister a batch of money. Why don’t you stroke immoderate of that portion I’m alive?”

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The overlap has been rather overt connected AEW’s play show, which has had matches connected the shot tract that see craziness similar wrestlers jumping disconnected the extremity station and chasing each different done the stadium successful play carts. There was adjacent a clip of Jaguars coaches Urban Meyer and Charlie Strong getting progressive successful a match.

The clip went viral and was picked up by aggregate nationalist media outlets.

One of the reasons for specified a adjacent beingness connected camera has been the pandemic, which forced AEW to halt traveling for overmuch of 2020 and aboriginal 2021. The institution lone precocious started traveling again to person shows successful different cities. But for much than a year, practically each amusement was successful Daily’s Place, meaning the Khans had to trust connected the Jaguars’ facilities for each episode.

Meyer was precocious asked astir the nexus betwixt the 2 entities by News4Jax. 

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“Oh, I’m a immense wrestling instrumentality close now. I really am. I bask it,” Meyer said.

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