Former WWE star Chris Jericho who is also the inaugural AEW World Champion recently said that AEW was never obsessed with beating WWE NXT in TV ratings. AEW which is the more successful show that the promotion right now is beating NXT in ratings almost every week.
Recently in the AEW All Out pay per view event, we have seen some of the excellent matches and some greatest debuts in professional wrestling history. Ruby Riott aka Ruby Soho made her AEW debut. On the main event segment of the night, Adam Cole and Bryan Danielson also made their debuts. We were the biggest names in WWE who have decided to join their Rival promotion.
Chris Jericho Says AEW Was Never Obsessed With Beating NXT
We have already seen the major ex wrestlers from WWE joining AEW. Tony Khan got everyone he could from WWE. The biggest shock had to be CM Punk joining the newly formed promotion. He is indeed one of the biggest names in the history of professional wrestling, and him joining the promotion gives them a huge boost against WWE.
AEW has already launched in new weekly show called Rampage we should be telecasting against WWE Friday Night SmackDown. With the quality the show is offering, soon it will be a more superior show than SmackDown.
It is quite confusing what is WWE trying to do right now. They are letting most of their big names go, der booking bad segment and matches. Sometimes it feels like they were intentionally losing to AEW.
Chris Jericho who is the inaugural AEW World Champion recently spoke on Busted Open Radio where he said that AEW was never obsessed with beating WWE NXT in WWE rating. He said;
“Obviously, it’s a victory, and it’s a huge victory. The difference is that we weren’t obsessed with winning, losing, whatever it was.
“We were obsessed about was putting on the best show we could, and we couldn’t worry if WWE was gonna put NXT on or if NBC was going to resurrect the Beatles. Whatever you’re going to do, we can’t focus on that.
“We can’t worry about it because we’re too busy worrying about our own show. We’re too busy worrying about putting on great stories and great matches in the middle of a frickin pandemic so when we won the war and won handily, of course it was the end of NXT because that was kind of the whole idea was put them against us, build them as a huge third brand, and then move on.”
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