{"id":67593,"date":"2020-01-16T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/?p=67593"},"modified":"2020-01-16T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T16:23:00","slug":"aew-signs-taz-to-a-multi-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2020\/01\/16\/aew-signs-taz-to-a-multi-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"AEW signs Taz to a multi-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"prowr-3424864315\" class=\"prowr-apple-podcast-button-link prowr-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pro-wrestling-boom-podcast\/id1365989370\" aria-label=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?fit=320%2C78&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?w=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?resize=300%2C73&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" width=\"320\" height=\"78\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p><b>By Jason Powell<\/b>, ProWrestling.net Editor (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prowrestlingnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@prowrestlingnet<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>AEW announced the signing of Taz to a multi-year contract. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, though Taz did note in a video released by AEW that &#8220;the coin looks right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Powell&#8217;s POV:<\/strong><\/span> The timing of the hiring is interesting in that it came on the same day that AEW announced their new deal with Warner Media, which includes an extra hour of AEW programming per week. Taz does good work on color commentary and has spent several years in radio, so he should be an asset to the company.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AEWDynamite?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AEWDynamite<\/a> was extended to 2023 by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tntdrama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@tntdrama<\/a> and Today we are happy to announce that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialTAZ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@OfficialTAZ<\/a> has signed a multiple year agreement with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AEW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AEW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dX99wxdfvR\">pic.twitter.com\/dX99wxdfvR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 All Elite Wrestling (@AEWrestling) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AEWrestling\/status\/1217838923050881027?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"prowr-4160152647\" class=\"prowr-after-content prowr-entity-placement\"><a class=\"spreaker-player\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/show\/pwboom\" data-resource=\"show_id=3275525\" data-theme=\"light\" data-playlist=\"show\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"340px\">Listen to \"Pro Wrestling Boom Podcast\" on Spreaker.<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":49871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2837,2,3],"tags":[2486,167],"class_list":["post-67593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew-news","category-newsticker","category-newsupdates","tag-aew","tag-taz"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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