Chris Jericho claims the Tuesday Night War results don’t bother him, but he certainly had a lot to say about it.
All Elite Wrestling‘s Chris Jericho recently sat down with The Messenger. When asked about WWE NXT recently defeating AEW Dynamite in the Tuesday Night War. Jericho said WWE loading up the show the way they did was just an opportunity for them to stick it to the rival company.
“You know, you can only bring in Cena and Undertaker and Cody and everybody else so much because nobody wants to work on their secondary show all the time,” Chris Jericho said. “And it was a fun little, ‘Hey, F-you AEW.’ I didn’t even really worry about it. It was just an opportunity to stick it to us with stunt casting.
Tony Khan didn’t want to bring in celebrities to compete with NXT
“I told Tony, ‘Well, if you want to fire back, bring in Shaq and Snoop Dogg and those types of guys, Mike Tyson. But Tony didn’t do that. We relied on our show and our guys and our girls, and that’s the way it’s always been for us. This would be like a football game where you bring in all of your top stars from years prior and beat the other team 30-26.
“It’s like a video game. Let’s bring in Tom Brady from five years ago and then play him for one game against Chris Jericho. OK, you guys won, but you only won 30-26. So, don’t get too far up your own ass because you didn’t do that good of a job as far as crushing us. And our show was better than theirs, quite frankly. So, it doesn’t bother me. It’s competition, man. It’s good for the fans; it’s good for the companies.”
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