This weekend, AEW and WWE were heading straight again, but instead of being a weekly TV show, AEW Double or Nothing didn’t air at the same time as the “NXT” Battlegrounds. In light of the conflict, Tony Kahn compared the ongoing “war” between his promotion and WWE to the Jim Crockett promotion era of wrestling.
“[The counter programming is] It’s pretty consistent. I think that’s the most consistent event schedule I’ve seen… Jim Crockett’s promotion” pointed out in AEW’s double or nothing after the show in a media scrum before poses a light threat to WWE.
Khan appears to be convinced that AEW will not be going down the same path as other promotions that have directly opposed WWE for decades, especially given recent media deals with WBD. Some of WWE’s biggest events, including the Survivor series and the Royal Rumble, began as a counter-office to the JCP PPV. McMahon was famous for threatening to retain Wrestlemania IV rights if the PPV provider showed the 1987 edition of Starrcade, but McMahon never really got better about these threats.
In the main event of WWE’s battlefield, former TNA world champion Joe Hendry won the title with Trick Williams, and social media is bustling with negative and positive ways. However, at the end of AEW, “Hangman” Adam Page Beat is Osprey Eye, who won the men’s Owen Heart Cup tournament and secures a shot at the AEW World Championship against Jon Moxley at AEW All In: Texas.
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