Tony Khan Says AEW Skipped Seven-Year Dynamite Anniversary Plans For PAC Tribute

AEW was originally going to celebrate Dynamite’s seventh anniversary after All Out, but skipped it for the PAC tribute episode. The September 30th episode of AEW Dynamite paid tribute to PAC, who passed away the day after All Out at the age of 40.

Tony Khan noted on the AEW WrestleDream post-show media scrum that the original plans called for the company to celebrate the show’s anniversary that week, but that they scrapped the idea in order to honor PAC’s life. You can check out the highlights below:

On AEW Dynamite’s Seventh Anniversary:

“I still think there’s so much we can do and grow and accomplish in AEW. I want to go out every week and continue to build; I think AEW’s having an awesome 2026. I am so proud that last year, Wednesday Night Dynamite became the longest-running prime time pro wrestling show ever on TBS and TNT, and that was a major milestone.

And recently we celebrated 7 years of Wednesday Night Dynamite; I didn’t talk about it at all for an important reason. Because the show where we were going to talk about this, and it was going to be the seven-year anniversary show — it was far more important to celebrate the life of PAC. And what would have been seven years of Wednesday Night Dynamite, where we would have marked this, it wasn’t the most important milestone.”

On the PAC Tribute Show:

“What was way more important to celebrate was Ben’s life and all the great things he accomplished, and to put on a show that celebrated his life and to encapsulate that in one night. Not to try to advertise, not to build up tonight’s AEW WrestleDream. Even though we had a great pay-per-view tonight. In Pittsburgh, it wasn’t about building up tonight’s show; it wasn’t about building up Grand Slam France. It was about putting together one-night tribute that was the perfect tribute.

“And Ben’s in our hearts every night. As far as a one-night tribute show, that was the best we could do. It was perfect. And I think everybody who participated gave it their very best for him. And so that would have been where we would have talked a lot about the seven-year anniversary.”

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