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Cody Rhodes On AEW Not Being Concerned About NXT

All Elite Wrestling was officially announced in January of 2019, and in October their weekly TV series, AEW Dynamite, premiered on TNT.

The brand has been going head to head with NXT on Wednesday nights for months now, and both shows have claimed victories in the ratings war.

However, Cody noted during an interview with Yahoo Sports that AEW officials are more concerned with developing their own brand than they are with paying attention to what NXT is doing.

“There’s a romantic way to look at the ratings and say ‘Here we are, it’s the late 1990s again. Every Thursday let’s check ‘em.’ It’s fun to look at the ratings but I know internally we’re not having any pep rally speeches. Our concern is not NXT and I believe NXT’s concern is not us. If anyone is going to succeed, we cannot be a reactionary brand.”

Cody went on to note that what the ratings war doesn’t show is that there’s less crossover between the NXT and AEW fan bases.

“One really good, positive takeaway that the ratings war doesn’t show is that there is a lot less crossover between the fan bases, there’s a lot less of the turning the channel between one and the other. That means there’s a lot of people just watching wrestling on Wednesday nights. Making wrestling destination programming again is cool.”

Which show have you been enjoying more, NXT or AEW? Sound off in the comments below.

Josh Foster

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