Chris Jericho says AEW has “never worried about WWE ever, we’ve only worried about our own show”
During an interview with SHAK Wrestling, Chris Jericho was the question: “What do you think is the opportunity for AEW here as the perception around WWE continues to change?” Here was Jericho’s response…
“I think it’s the same as always, in that we’ve never worried about WWE ever. We’ve only worried about our own show, our own product, the quality of what we’re doing, you know, and it’s not a perceived upswing.
You can see it in the numbers, tickets sold, the ratings.I think last week, were very close to the ratings that they were right before HBO Max became a platform for us.
So, if we’re doing those same ratings, plus there’s the HBO Max, that would tell me, common sense would say we’re doing bigger ratings now than we were doing three or four years ago.
I think that’s because no matter what’s going on around us, we keep our noses to the grindstone and worry about what we’re doing and what kind of matches and quality of matches and variety. We’ve never been a WWE light. We’ve been AEW since day one, and that’s never changed. And sometimes you like it and sometimes you don’t, but we’ve never changed it.”