Triple H said earlier today while speaking to Ariel Helwani that he didn’t feel like it was a big deal when NXT were defeated by AEW in “The Wednesday Night Wars”.
AEW’s Chris Jericho offered up a response in an interview with Alex McCarthy of TalkWRESTLING and Inside The Ropes.
“Once again it is just changing the narrative and changing the history, which makes me laugh. Because when it started, it was not developmental, it was a third brand, it’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon, and all the other bullshit that they said, so of course we [AEW] beat the developmental or whatever you want to call it, but who gives a shit? It’s such old news, and the show sucks, NXT sucks, it’s not a good show, and they know it. Whether they were punished or not, they probably were punished. That’s probably why Triple H said those things because he is angry that we beat them, and he is probably angry that we exist. But you know, we don’t care about WWE, we care about our show, we care about putting on the best stories that we can put on, we care about building our fanbase and building our ratings,” he said.
Jericho continued, “We will continue to exist and I will tell you this, my boss has a lot more money than his boss does. A lot more. So you want to go to that and, we are not going anywhere, we will continue to grow. That isses them off and why wouldn’t it? They had a monopoly for so long and don’t like the fact that we exist and that’s fine. We don’t care that they exist, God bless them. They are running a show in front of 50,000 people, why would he care about us? But you know, he should, and he does, and that’s why he said those things.”
Chris Jericho to Inside The Ropes
The Wednesday Night War began when Dynamite premiered on TNT on October 2, 2019 and ended on April 7, 2021. Jericho is set to face Bryan Danielson at AEW All Out this weekend.
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