All Elite Wrestling President Tony Khan took part in a post-AEW All Out media scrum and discussed the company signing CM Punk, Bryan Danielson and Adam Cole to AEW contracts in recent weeks.

“I think you’ve all heard the story, which is true, that Punk didn’t actually sign anything until that night, but we had a handshake and I trusted him, same thing with Bryan. I think Bryan just signed, I trusted him, you know we have a good relationship and we built that, same with Adam Cole. I wasn’t sure everything was going to fall into place, but they all just kind of one-by-one started to look more likely.

You know when something’s like, this could happen and then every day it starts to look a little bit better, a little bit better and it’s like Punk said, I don’t know if there’s a day I could put my finger on all these things and say when they all were going to hit, they just kept looking a little bit better every day and definitely every good conversation I had with each of them, I felt a little bit better about what we were doing tonight.”