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TONY KHAN SAYS HE SPOKE WITH NWA PRESIDENT BILLY CORGAN OVER REACTION TO AEW NATIONAL TITLE, ANNOUNCES NEW COLLISION BOUTS

During a live stream on Twitter tonight, AEW President Tony Khan noted he recently spoke with NWA President Billy Corgan after several NWA wrestlers took to social media after the AEW National title was announced, commenting, "...There's been a lot of talk about the National title and the National title match, and there's been talk from people in and outside of AEW. It's been really interesting and of course the National Championship will be decided at AEW Full Gear. But when I recently announced it, I saw a lot of talk online and there was chatter from even wrestlers, from other promotions, people all over and wrestlers are gonna talk, wrestlers are gonna say stuff.  That's totally cool, but I ended up having a really nice conversation about it with the President of the NWA, Billy Corgan because...of course the NWA National Championship has a great history of its own, and when we created a National Champion, I saw NWA wrestlers saying, 'Hey, we have a National title.'  AEW's a separate company. We have our own lineage and I'd like to just say that Billy, I have a lot of respect for him. I have a lot of respect for what he's doing. I really love the traditions of pro wrestling, and I had a really nice talk with Billy and we hadn't talked in a long time, so I think it was good for him to hear this.  I respect him and I respect the NWA and we're trying to do something different here. We brought pro wrestling back to TBS, but there are a lot of promotions that have had a great history on TBS before AEW, and one of them is the NWA.  I think it's great that Billy's trying to keep that tradition alive and revive it.  So we had a really nice talk about this. So, to any of the wrestlers anywhere in the world, and particularly some of you in the NWA, you'll be happy to hear Billy and I had a very nice talk about this and I'm sure he would say the same."

Set for tomorrow's Collision on TNT and HBO Max live from Erie, PA:

*AEW TNT Champion Kyle Fletcher vs. Scorpio Sky.

*Bandido & Jetspeed & Juice Robinson vs. FTR & ROH Tag Team Champions Rush & Sammy Guevara.

*Mark Briscoe vs. Mark Davis.

*Toni Storm to appear.

*Alex Windsor & Rhio vs. Maya World & Hyan.

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