Select Answers: AEW video game, venues, free agents in 2025 (Patreon)

Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.

Any talks of doing another AEW console game with the new rights deal with WBD? As they have WBD games.

The WBD deal doesn't have much to do with that outside of an infusion of revenue that AEW would have at their disposal. I'm not sure what the numbers were on the AEW game as it pertains to how much it costs vs. how much it made. However, AEW does own the engine and can use it for future games.

Hi Sean. What will it take for Tony Khan to start booking smaller venues?

I've asked about this a number of times and I've been given a number of reasons they book the venues they do. It's very common for music acts to book large venues and curtain them off as well. Amenities, how nice the venue is, ease of access, parking, mailing lists, the ability to open up additional sections, concession staff are all reasons AEW chooses to run bigger venues.

Hi SRS! I was just wondering if you could see any other major WWE stars jumping to AEW in the near future/how is the 2025 FA class shaping up?

The 2025 free agent class is nowhere near as robust as the number of contracts that are coming up this year. 2024 had the benefit of a lot of the five-year deals from 2019, and the three-year restructured WWE deals from 2021 coming up. There will be a number of talent who had injury time added to their five-year deals in 2019 that will carry over to next year. Each contract and situation is unique.