Tony Khan Says AEW and ROH Titles Will Be Kept Separate, No Hybrid Championship

Tony Khan doesn’t plan to have a AEW/ROH “hybrid” champion, as he said during a media call this week. While at the call promoting Death Before Dishonor this weekend, Khan was asked about the idea of a title that would travel between the companies and said that he doesn’t plan to do so.

“The titles, I think, are going to be kept separate,” Khan said (per Fightful). “I wouldn’t have a hybrid championship or any hybrid championships I think between AEW and Ring of Honor. For example, the AEW All-Atlantic Championship is about that. It has been defended outside the country versus wrestlers outside of AEW and then PAC, or whoever ends up retaining the title in his upcoming defenses, the champion will return to America and defend that title against AEW wrestlers. I also think a lot of the AEW championships have been defended outside in other companies against other wrestlers and we’ve seen championships from outside of AEW defended here.”

The ROH titles have been defended on AEW TV, and Khan noted that would continue, noting, “As far as having a hybrid championship between two companies, I don’t — I probably would not do that. But I would have the champions of AEW and Ring of Honor continue to fight each other in their respective companies and in other companies like New Japan Pro-Wrestling and other companies we’ve worked with, AAA and a number of others, RevPro in England is now a great example of that with the All-Atlantic title also. So that’s probably how I see it going.”

ROH Death Before Dishonor takes place on Saturday and airs live on PPV and Bleacher Report/FITE TV.