Tony Khan Says AEW & WWE Have A ‘True Competition’

The Wednesday Night Wars between WWE and AEW began in October 2019 as AEW Dynamite and NXT went head-to-head every week in order to see who would come out the better show. AEW Dynamite would win in the ratings war for the majority of the time. The Wars finally came to an end in April after NXT moved to Tuesday nights.

Since then, both shows have been focusing on their own product but the fact remains that WWE likely does not care what AEW does right now and many fans believe AEW isn’t proper competition to WWE.

While speaking to WFAN’s Moose and Maggie show, AEW President Tony Khan talked about AEW’s competing with WWE. Tony Khan believes there is a competition between the two companies, stating that there is ‘true competition’ between them.

“It’s intense. It is a competition. There is no way around it. It’s a true competition. I’m really excited about being a challenger brand and taking on a huge company. And I think for a long time fans were demanding an alternative, and AEW on TNT has given them that. Normally we do our show on Wednesday nights.. I’m doing a special Friday Night Dynamite this week. And then in a couple weeks we return to our Wednesday timeslot, and we’ll be on Wednesday’s from here on out.

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“We’ve really carved out a great fanbase, and Wednesday nights we’ve made a great tradition for ourselves. We had competition on Wednesday nights and we don’t anymore. I think we were very successful head to head against other wrestling on Wednesday nights, we’ve carved out that night for ourselves. In the fall we’re also going to be doing a show called Rampage that will also be on Friday nights. And I think, hopefully, with the Friday Night Dynamite we’re this week and the shows we’ve been doing recently, we’re building a nice tradition of AEW on Friday night also.”

We will have to see how both companies will improve their product for fans and if AEW will one day have an all-out war with WWE. At this point in time, it is highly unlikely AEW will do anything to affect WWE.