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Fulham owner's son Tony Khan changes wrestling world after buying Ring of Honor
Fulham Football Club's sporting director Tony Khan has bought his second wrestling company in four years - changing the landscape of the sport.Khan, who also owns All Elite Wrestling, has now purchased Ring of Honor Wrestling, which is where top stars such as CM Punk, Bryan Danielson, and Samoa Joe shot to fame.The buyout comes just a few months after the company took a hiatus, and let all of its wrestlers and staff go, due to the effects of the pandemic.The deal signed by the son of Fulham owner Shahid Khan is thought to be worth around £30 million.Khan, who is Chief Football Strategy Officer of American football team Jacksonville Jaguars said: “Ring of Honor’s influence on modern professional wrestling is etched permanently in the history books, and this acquisition ensures that its legacy will be kept alive and treated with the utmost respect.“This deal adds thousands of hours of content to our rapidly growing library and creates new opportunities to expand our footprint on a national and global scale, while having the potential to produce new content under the ROH banner.“I will immediately begin exploring opportunities to make ROH’s video library available to fans, who’ll have the opportunity to witness the beginnings of the careers of some of AEW’s biggest stars.”Joe Koff, chief operating officer for Ring of Honor Wrestling, said: “Ring of Honor has produced some of the best professional wrestlers over the past 20 years, but more importantly, it created a family.“I will be forever grateful to everyone in the ROH family who has worked tirelessly for the past two decades to take ROH to levels previously unimagined.“Tony has the utmost appreciation and respect for Ring of Honor, and I’m truly excited to see how he
