{"id":241688,"date":"2021-05-04T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/aews-chris-jericho-responds-to-triple-hs-imaginary-war-talk\/"},"modified":"2021-05-04T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T11:01:00","slug":"aews-chris-jericho-responds-to-triple-hs-imaginary-war-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/aews-chris-jericho-responds-to-triple-hs-imaginary-war-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"#AEW’s Chris Jericho responds to Triple H’s ‘imaginary war’ talk"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#AEW’s Chris Jericho responds to Trip<\/a>le H’s ‘imaginary war’ talk<\/strong>”
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Chris Jericho isn\u2019t surprised NXT boss Triple H called the promotion\u2019s year-plus ratings battle with All Elite Wrestling on Wednesday nights an \u201cimaginary war\u201d \u2014 and the former AEW world champion went as far to say WWE\u2019s brand lost on two fronts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s typical WWE,\u201d said Jericho, who will lead The Inner Circle against The Pinnacle at AEW Blood and Guts 8 p.m. Wednesday on TNT. \u201cIt\u2019s typical rhetoric. Because I believe that they congratulated us the first week and said, if you remember, \u2018it\u2019s a marathon, not a sprint.\u2019 We won the marathon, right? So now it\u2019s an imaginary war. Well then why were they saying it\u2019s a marathon, not a sprint a year and a half ago when our first rating came out?\u201d<\/p>\n

AEW won the marathon of what was dubbed the \u201cWednesday Night Wars\u201d by garnering better ratings than NXT on 63 of the 75 nights the two brands competed head to head for two hours in primetime. They also tied twice. Jericho, who dubbed himself the \u201cDemo God\u201d early on in the battle, saw his crew ahead in the key 18-to-49 demographic 74 of the 75 weeks the shows ran up against each other. While NXT had been streaming as a one-hour show Wednesdays on WWE Network, the company moved it to USA Network on that night in October 2019. According to Jericho, that was WWE\u2019s attempt to try to limit AEW\u2019s staying power with TNT, which in January 2020 extended the company\u2019s deal to 2023. NXT went to Tuesday nights earlier this month.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be there for the rest of time, it was an \u2018imaginary war,\u2019 and if it wasn\u2019t a war why did they take Wednesday night the exact same time that we had?\u201d Jericho said. \u201cIt was there to take away our ratings and for us not to get re-signed. Three months after that started we were re-signed to a hundreds-of millions-of-dollars extension. They failed.\u201d<\/p>\n

NBC Universal\u2019s decision to shut down its NBCSN channel by the end of this year means more NASCAR and English Premier League coverage would move over to Wednesday nights on USA Network, but NXT was moved long before that. The switch also gives WWE the opportunity to improve its chances for a more lucrative media<\/a> rights deal for NXT down the road, if the show continues to thrive on Tuesday nights and gives them a chance for a kind of lead-in from \u201cMonday Night Raw,\u201d which is also on USA. NXT ran for the last time against AEW on April 7.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe promotional opportunity for us is much better on a Tuesday,\u201d Triple H said on the \u201cCheap Heat\u201d podcast with Peter Rosenberg<\/a> after NXT\u2019s move. \u201cAnd also then not having to have a narrative where it\u2019s just constantly about an imaginary war, or this imaginary battle. And people can say what they want, but the truth of the matter is you compete against everything. If you are creating a television product or content, that is the world we live in, is content not television, not internet. It\u2019s everything. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo you\u2019re constantly competing for eyeballs and time against everything under the sun, including sleep and time to do other things, and video game<\/a>s, and TikTok and everything else that\u2019s out there. So, having your own space sort of where you don\u2019t have to then have an added imaginary battle\u2026is kinda nice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both shows have seen an uptick in ratings over the past three weeks with AEW posting 1.29 million, 1.104 million and 889,000, which came up against President Joe Biden\u2019s address to Congress last week. NXT netted ratings of 805,000, 841,000 and 744,000 during the three-week span.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve done a great job of putting on amazing television throughout this pandemic,\u201d Jericho said. \u201cWe never took our eyes off the storytelling, which is what it\u2019s all about. And we never lost our cool factor either, which I think NXT and WWE lost a lot of.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jericho feels NXT hurt itself by not moving off Wednesday earlier when its efforts to turn the ratings tide wasn\u2019t working. NXT ran shows theme<\/a>d off of old WCW pay-per-views such as Great American Bash and Halloween Havoc and also had main roster WWE stars appear on a number of occasions. AEW did join in the nostalgia attempt, running a two-night Bash at the Beach show in January 2020 based around Jericho\u2019s cruise.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey started kind of cutting off your nose to spite your face and just kept holding on and holding on and hurting their own brand and hotshoting everything to get ratings and they just weren\u2019t getting it,\u201d Jericho said. \u201cSo whatever reason they left, good for them, they\u2019re a great company.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#AEW’s Chris Jericho responds to Triple H’s ‘imaginary war’ talk” Chris Jericho isn\u2019t surprised NXT boss Triple H called the promotion\u2019s year-plus ratings battle with All Elite Wrestling on Wednesday nights an \u201cimaginary war\u201d \u2014 and the former AEW world champion went as far to say WWE\u2019s brand lost on two fronts. \u201cThat\u2019s typical WWE,\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/chris-jericho-tripleh-nxt-aew-ratings.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[104401,79203,79204,87330,75757,104440,25019],"class_list":["post-241688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-5-4-21","tag-all-elite-wrestling","tag-chris-jericho","tag-nxt","tag-pro-wrestling","tag-triple-h","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}