Tony Khan On AEW’s Concussion Protocol

Concussions have been a topic of concern in the wrestling community. Many promotions are taking measures to protect their wrestlers. 

During an interview with AL.com, AEW’s President Tony Khan discussed the company’s protocol when it comes to concussions. 

Here’s what he had to say: 

“It’s changed a lot. There’s researcher out there named Chris Nowinski who’s actually a former pro wrestler and a former football player and had concussions end his career and has gone around educating pro wrestlers and football people and sports all over about the dangers of concussion. And I think through him and a bunch of other people’s work we know more about it, so we have concussion protocol in place and we have doctors at ringside for all the matches. If anybody couldn’t continue for any reason, we check for that and people have to be cleared to return, and I think things have come a long way. AEW, we’re a relatively new company. Our first show was ‘Double or Nothing,’ Memorial Day weekend in Las Vegas, last May, so I think people have been educated and by the time we started we knew we had to have doctors at ringside and a protocol for safety.”