Chris Jericho was recently a guest on Busted Open Radio. During the interview, he spoke about the early success of AEW.
Jericho was asked how he thinks those (backstage) in WWE feel about the early success of AEW.
Here is what he said (h/t to Wrestling INC for the quote below):
“They know exactly what is going on, they have the daily social media reports, the analytics, the demographics, I know we had 200 thousand Google searches, that’s up there with NFL numbers. I’m sure they are watching, and they are not very happy with what happened. You can’t tell me a show that had Chris Jericho, Dustin Rhodes, Jim Ross, Bret Hart, Dean Malenko calling the matches backstage, didn’t make WWE angry.
“Now, WWE is a juggernaut. They are not going anywhere, they have money to last decades, and decades, and decades. They have a huge talent roster, but this is a scene change. This puts WWE on watch.”
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