AEW President Tony Khan addressed the technical difficulties that plagued the Amazon Prime Video feed during Saturday’s AEW WrestleDream pay-per-view. Viewers watching on that platform reported that the stream cut out multiple times throughout the night, causing frustration and disrupting the viewing experience. During the post-show media scrum, Khan confirmed he was aware of the issues, stating that the problem was completely out of AEW’s control and was the result of a technical issue with Amazon’s delivery system. He also noted that other providers, such as HBO Max, delivered the show without any problems.
Khan compared the situation to the technical issues that affected the ROH Death Before Dishonor pay-per-view earlier this year, which led to him making that show free on YouTube.
“It’s something out of AEW’s control. It was a technical problem with the Amazon delivery. I think our other streams are unaffected. It was something with their systems internally there. It does remind me, to some extent, of what happened earlier this summer with Death Before Dishonor because to be honest, those are two of my favorite pay-per-views of the entire year. I also think it was, start to finish, a perfect show, and I remember walking into the scrum with the exact same feeling in the sense of I thought the show was perfect, I thought the wrestlers delivered, the crowd delivered and the whole team backstage and in the ring delivered, and I was so proud of everybody in AEW and it was just this technical thing completely out of our control with a streaming provider, and in this case, it was a similar thing. I thought the show was perfect, the wrestling was perfect and the replay’s gonna be available there for everybody through them and I think they’ll address that and hopefully Amazon will get that figured out but for AEW, everybody here did a fantastic job. I was really glad to hear that HBO Max delivered the pay-per-view without any issues.”
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