Double or Nothing was a massive success for All Elite Wrestling and while WWE isn't going anywhere anytime soon, the newly launched company has put them on the map in a big way. So, are Vince McMahon and company concerned by what could prove to be their first competition since WCW?
"They know exactly what is going on, they have the daily social media reports, the analytics, the demographics," Chris Jericho said during a recent interview. "I know we had 200 thousand Google searches that’s up there with NFL numbers."
"I’m sure they are watching, and they are not very happy with what happened. You can’t tell me a show that had Chris Jericho, Dustin Rhodes, Jim Ross, Bret Hart, Dean Malenko calling the matches backstage, didn’t make WWE angry. Now, WWE is a juggernaut. They are not going anywhere, they have money to last decades, and decades, and decades. They have a huge talent roster, but this is a scene change. This puts WWE on watch."
There's no denying that and things are going to get very interesting when All Elite Wrestling launches its weekly show on TNT.
Whether WWE is going to take this competition seriously and start changing how they do things remains to be seen but they more than likely view AEW as the minor leagues and probably won't start making alterations like that until the company starts posing a very real threat to them (and that could be years away).