AEW Dynamite has been airing on Wednesday nights on TNT for almost two years now, and since then the company has created quite a bit of content for wrestling fans to consume.
It seems that AEW’s relationship with TNT is in good standing at the moment, but during a recent interview with Stephanie Chase, Chris Jericho noted that the network has reprimanded AEW in the past.
“TNT is rolling with it because the ratings are great and the demo is high. Obviously, there’s certain things we’ve been reprimanded for, there are a few things I could tell you. We’re not stupid, if there’s something that goes on that the parent company doesn’t like, we don’t do it anymore. That’s why AEW is as successful as we are because we’re not afraid to take a few chances and we’re not worried about taking chances or getting slapped on the wrist if we do something that we shouldn’t do. We just don’t do it again,” he said.
The first ever AEW World Champion went on to say that there have been a few things he was told not to do again, and that TNT was apparently upset when he lit up a cigar on TV.
“It hasn’t been that many times. For me, there’s a few times I can recall when they say, ‘don’t do that again.’ One of them was when we beat up Dustin Rhodes in the parking lot and as we left, I lit up a cigar. They did not like that. No smoking allowed on the show. They were super angry about it. No smoking allowed! I was like, “Really, out of all the things, that’s what they are mad at?’ They were very adamant, they didn’t want any smoking on the show and if we did it again, I don’t know if this was used but the way it was told me was, ‘we’ll pull the show if you guys do it again.’ Alright, I don’t need to be smoking. I just did it because It thought it was an asshole thing to do. Apparently, so did they.”
H/T Fightful
