WWE announced the release of NXT Superstar Killian Dain earlier this year as part of a mass wave of talent and backstage cuts.
The former WWE Superstar recently spoke to Riju Dasgupta of Sportskeeda, and talked about the so-called “Wednesday Night Wars” between AEW and NXT which took place between October 2019 and April of 2021. Dain admitted that there were many times that they (NXT Superstars) would watch AEW Dynamite backstage during NXT tapings.
“Like, so, I think people would love [for] me to say it was this rivalry or whatever else, but the truth is, you know when we were going head-to-head if they had a particularly good match, we’d wanted to watch; we’d watch! You know what I mean? We’d be backstage in the locker room; we’ll be like, ‘Oh, such and such, let’s see that.’ A lot of [them] are our friends, [as is] with a lot of the guys on the roster.”
“So for us, there was a professional rivalry so far as. Nobody wants to lose or anything like that, but at the same time, we knew it was great for the industry. We knew it was exactly what it was as us growing up watching, when it was WWF and WCW, maybe on a smaller scale, but for a lot of us, in the NXT locker room, it was a good way; an added motivation is probably the best way to put it. Listen, there’s no denying, if there is a really cool match, and we’re not doing something on the show that day, we’d be watching, you know what I mean because there were some crackers at the time.”
You can watch Former WWE Superstar Killian Dain’s interview with Sportskeeda’s Riju Dasgupta below.
