Kenny Omega Didn’t Really Care About The Wednesday Night War

Kenny Omega is an EVP of AEW which makes him part of a lot of business talk. For the longest time, AEW’s business saw WWE place NXT in direct competition to them. Some people might have been preoccupied by the Wednesday Night War, but Kenny Omega didn’t really seem to care.

While talking to the PWI Podcast, Kenny Omega said that he didn’t really care one way or the other about what NXT was doing. He didn’t really consider it much of a war. They tell different stories in AEW and that was, and still is, his focus.

“For me, and I’m sure people in my company will be reading this and hearing this, and that’s fine,” Omega said. “This is my true honest feeling. I never felt one way or another towards the war, if you can call it that, I wouldn’t call it that. I knew we would tell different stories in our company. I knew we would show different types of matches in our company. I can only control what I have a hand in, and that would be my stuff and variety of other things that may or may not be on the show. And I’m sure the Bucks feel the same way.

“For NXT to have moved to Tuesday, I mean sure, great. I just feel like now, I never felt like it was a battle for Wednesday. I feel like it’s a battle across the board. There’s so much wrestling every day during the week. I try to think back to when I was a fan, and I thought I was a mega fan, when I was watching wrestling but not doing it. And even still, I think at the height of my fandom, I couldn’t watch the amount of wrestling that’s available to us today. Couldn’t do it five, seven days a week. I just couldn’t do it. So for me, the real war is ‘how do you get the eyeballs for your day of the week?’ We’re not battling for Wednesday, I feel like I’m battling for the week. You know what I mean?”

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Chris Jericho also commented on the Wednesday Night Wars. He said that the war was actually over the day that WarnerMedia signed a huge expansion with AEW on their current deal, adding a ton of cash to their budget and an eventual second show, which will become Rampage on August 13th.

We’ll have to see what’s next for Kenny Omega as AEW World Champion. That was, and still is, a huge focus of his as well. Omega is also involved in the company’s video game division and helping along the women’s division. AEW is dedicated to produce a different product from WWE and that will continue to be their mission, no matter what day NXT is on.

What’s your take of the Wednesday night war? Sound off in the comments!

Thanks to Wrestling Inc for the quote