WWE agent Shane Helms has high hopes for the launch of AEW (All Elite Wrestling), which was officially announced last month.
The former WWE star was a recent guest on WWE Hall of Famer Booker T’s Heated Conversations podcast where he talked about a wide range of topics including his hopes for AEW and the competition that they could bring to the WWE where many people hope it will revive the Monday Night Wars Era.
“[AEW] is gonna be good for the business,” Helms said. “Competition is good, there’s an excitement in the air, those guys are some of my good friends, with Chris Jericho being a very close friend of mine. I’m excited to see what they do. We need that again, when the business was on fire with that Monday Night Wars. There’s a lot of people that thought that would never be duplicated, and it still might not this time, it’s still too early to say. But, if we can generate that excitement again – there’s a lot of crazy vibes in the air right now it seems to me. “
“The only thing to compare them right now to is WCW, because they were the last people to challenge Vince, so that’s gonna be a natural comparison,” Helms said. “But with WCW, they would just hire anybody back in the day, it didn’t matter if your a– was good or not. They were just giving money handouts as a fist, this company right here, they’re gonna be a little bit more smarter with their money and I think they’ll keep an eye on that. And those young guys, they know that, and two, that’s where Chris is gonna come in to play a little bit more than people realize, too. Because he was in WCW, he saw some of those mistakes so he’s gonna bring not just name value, and not just what he brings in the ring, but he’s gonna bring some business experience that they definitely need.”
H/T to Wrestling Inc for the transcript
