During a recent interview, Triple H finally acknowledged the fact that NXT and All Elite Wrestling will be going head to head on Wednesday nights from October onwards. It's become apparent lately that NXT is going to be AEW's main rival rather than
RAW or
SmackDown Live and The Game has seemingly acknowledged that "the war thing" is real.
"The war thing gets brought up a lot and competition is great," he noted. "So if they are coming to Wednesday nights and they want to put on the best show they can then great. That’s where we are. We’ve been on Wednesday nights for five years, it’s been are home. We’ve been in discussions with various networks about moving NXT and growing it. Now is the right time."
"If Wednesday’s is the place people can say war or not war but I don’t see that way being competitive nature. I see us putting on the best show possible," Triple H continued. "I think at the end of the day, the winners are the fans. They will choose what they want to watch. I’m confident in NXT, I’m confident in the talent, there’s not one person I would trade anybody for. I can look at that show and say bring your best, we will and good luck."
Ultimately, fans will have to choose between NXT and AEW on Wednesday nights as they'll only be able to watch one of them live. With that in mind, the ratings are going to be very interesting and with the first two episodes of NXT on the USA Network set to run for only an hour, it will be interesting seeing if that leads to a decrease in interest.
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