Chris Jericho is taking a page out of Seth Rollins’ playbook, where Rollins called AEW the “minor leagues.” During a recent edition of the Wrestling Daft podcast, Jericho commented on the “Wedneday Night War,” which AEW has won in the ratings department over the past three weeks since they debuted. Jericho said,
“NXT is still the minor league. Those guys are still unknown performers, it’s not a competition to us and I knew we’d win because we have more star power. When you look at the end of our first week of TV who was out there at the end? Chris Jericho – we know him! Dustin Rhodes – we know him! Jon Moxley – we know him, he used to be another name but we know who that is. Jim Ross is commentating – I know that guy!
Our competition is RAW, is SmackDown, is Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar, and all those guys! I think it was a stroke of genius by Vince McMahon to put NXT on against us because it took the focus off ‘the main show and AEW’ and put it on ‘the minor league and AEW.’”
For what it’s worth, Rollins took a lot of heat when he referred to AEW as “the minor leagues.” WWE Hall of Famer and AEW announcer Jim Ross actually criticized Rollins on his “Grilling JR” podcast, saying it “[made] him look bad and doesn’t do the business any good.”
