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Originally Posted by Tom Guycott
They pulled NXT from being an exclusive thing to get a subscription to The WWE Network for, and made it a TV show to deliberately fuck with AEW.
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Oh look it's this old trope again.
How many times is this going to come up while completely ignoring the facts? All of these points are fairly easy to confirm or logically deduced.
1. USA did not want to pay another $1 Billion to keep Smackdown, so instead they got 2 hours of NXT for 1/5th the cost. They literally replaced 2 hours of wrestling with 2 hours of wrestling for $160 million cheaper.
2. If Vince can just order Networks to put his shows on whenever he wants, why does WWE not have more shows? As it is Vince was offered another contract for $40 million a year and took it.
3. NXT aired on Wednesdays FOR YEARS before AEW ever existed. People like Cody, Dustin, and even Jericho appeared on that NXT show, so for them to forget what day NXT aired is bullshit.
4. U.S. Trademark records were filed by Cody/AEW for "Tuesday Night Dynamite". That sounds like THEY wanted to air in the spot Smackdown was no longer occupying, to take advantage and NOT air the same night NXT was on.
5. NXT aired on USA 2 weeks before Dynamite started. Call it NXT beating them to the punch on cable if you want, but that is far different than WWE suddenly forcing itself into " AEW's timeslot".
AEW just wants to play the victim card, like when Kenny Omega cried on Twitter about WWE Network airing an Evolve show the same night as AEW's Fyter Fest. Not WWE booking a show to go up against a FREE AEW show to hurt AEW, but airing a different company's show that happened to be on. WWE really screwed AEW out of all the revenue that FREE show was going to generate.
WWE has done a lot of shit in it's past, but that whole NXT is only on TV to hurt AEW is not one of them, no matter how many times AEW wants to pretend that is the story.