Overview
- AEW dedicated Wednesday’s Dynamite on TBS to Ted Turner and opened with Tony Schiavone, Sting, and a ten-bell salute.
- AEW CEO Tony Khan said in a livestream on X that it was a very sad day and that the late Mr. Ted Turner had passed.
- Sting praised Turner as an “all-in billionaire” and recalled Turner telling wrestlers to keep going because he had “deep pockets.”
- Tony Schiavone said Turner believed wrestling belonged on national television and tied AEW’s current platform to that vision.
- Turner founded TBS and TNT and owned WCW, and AEW now airs Dynamite on TBS and Collision on TNT in a clear throughline from his era.