From the beginning that AEW became a company, Chris Jericho said the goal was not only to change the world but also to change the wrestling landscape, and it’s easy to see that AEW is definitely doing just that.
It was reported that Dynamite defeated Monday Night RAW in the coveted 18 to 49 demographic which gave them a .53 rating. This led to Chris Jericho taking to Twitter and bragging about this fact, doubling down on his ‘game changer’ comments as well as a prediction he made regarding the ratings.
While speaking with REINVENTED with Jen Eckhart, Chris Jericho talked about AEW’s significant growth in the past two years and also explained why AEW Dynamite managed to defeat Monday Night RAW in demo numbers.
We have done bigger demo numbers than WWE RAW has done, which is the flagship show. I think our company came out of nowhere, basically, and really exploded because of a different attitude, and you can see that when you watch our shows. And you were there when we had the show at Arthur Ashe for 20,000 people in New York City, which is basically WWE’s backyard. So to draw a crowd like that and get the reception that we had, it seems to me that we are the hottest wrestling company in the world, and more importantly, we have the cool factor.
“And when you have the cool factor in any form of show business, whether it’s wrestling, whether it’s music, whether it’s a TV show, people jump aboard quickly because they want to figure out what’s everyone talking about here. What is all this about? AEW has that. We have changed the industry just by being in existence and focusing on something that was different from every other wrestling company, and I think that’s also the reasons why we had such a great fan base that exploded to where we are right now.”
We will have to wait and see if Dynamite can keep these ratings on a consistent basis.
Below is the full interview.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reinvented-with-jen-eckhart/id1580971093
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