Jim Ross, the former WWE commentator lambasted WWE for its rating war with AEW during Grilling JR Podcast. He claimed that WWE wanted to test AEW if they could cope up with the pressure.
Jim Ross says AEW are dominating the ratings war
During the podcast, he claimed that WWE’s strategy to push AEW and crippling them did not work out. On Wednesday nights, AEW airs Dynamite, while WWE airs NXT.
He talked about the wrestling fans attending the shows at AEW but WWE still does not allow fans at the shows, amid COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, with more people engaging with AEW, the company is dominating the ratings on the Wednesday nights.
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Jim Ross said:
“How’s that working? How’s that brilliant evil strategy? Going head to head is good in a boardroom, it’s good in a rah-rah meeting, but at the end of the day, you bring more people to a television set that are wrestling fans at 8 o’ clock eastern time on Wednesday night because you’ve got two brands now that the audience can sample.”
“They can watch one, they can DVR one, they can switch back and forth, whatever the hell you do. But to think it’s going to cripple it? Look at the bigger picture. It’s been the excuse in wrestling forever. Unscrupulous, unethical situations are always justified by saying ‘it’s just business’. Well, it’s just business that we’re kicking your a** every [Wednesday] night.”
This week’s Wednesday Night saw NXT’s first ever edition of Halloween Havoc, where Johnny Gargano became the new North American Champion.
Whereas, on AEW Dynamite Cody Rhodes defeated Orange Cassidy to successfully retain the TNT Championship, Kenny Omega and Hangman Page won their matches and are set for a match to determine the #1 contender for the AEW World Championship at Full Gear on November 7th.
