During a recent appearance on
The Rich Eisen Show for Bleacher Report Live, Chris Jericho and Kevin Smith touched on a number of topics, including the latter's recent appearance on the premiere episode of
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite.
It sounds like WWE wasn't happy about that as the decided to uninvite the filmmaker (and Jason Mewes) from the first episode of
Friday Night SmackDown a couple of days later.
"We were supposed to go do WWE, me and Jay [on Friday for SmackDown]," Smith says. "Then the morning [after Dynamite] we were told that WWE was like you can’t come on anymore and they canceled us..." Clearly, WWE didn't want to play second fiddle to AEW by having Smith appear so soon after on one of their shows.
Still, this probably just proves that the Wednesday Night Wars are, in fact, very real (at least where WWE is concerned).