When AEW first launched in 2019 the wrestling landscape changed. Ahead of AEW Dynamite’s debut on TNT, WWE brought NXT to the USA Network and made it a two hour show that aired on Wednesday nights. In the months that followed AEW went head to head with NXT in what came to be known as the Wednesday Night Wars.
Former WWE star Mansoor recently talked to Denise Salcedo about the culture backstage during the Wednesday Night Wars, and he admitted that he and his buddies would watch AEW while NXT was being taped.
“I’ve been a fan of AEW. I mean from day one it was like… So, I was in NXT for the heyday of the Wednesday Night Wars and it was so funny because like there was such a culture of like, ‘Oh, AEW ahhh.” But we’d be in this big, because we used to film at Full Sail College, so we’d be watching the show in a big lecture hall. And I’d be sitting with my buddies and we’d be watching AEW on the phone like a two-screen experience,”
“[Like, don’t let no one see us] Yeah, yeah. On the big screen there’d be NXT and on the small there’d be AEW. And I was like, ‘This is like great. This is like the Monday Night Wars. Like, I never got to live through that so it’s super cool that I’m experiencing it now.'”
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