Chris Jericho was recently interviewed by Inside the Ropes and responded to Vince McMahon's comment that he doesn't view AEW as competition.Â
Check out the highlights below:
âWell, what else is he going to say? You know, and to respond to that, we donât see WWE as competition. And he was smart to say that.â
âWeâre not worried about what WWE is and we havenât been since day one. We werenât worried about what NXT did. The whole time with the NXT vs. AEW war, which ended in a total abysmal failure for NXT, we never once had a TV screen watching what they were doing when we were doing it. We didnât know what segments they were in. We didnât know any of that. Now, the WWE way is youâre watching what the competition is doing when they were on, we didnât do that. And it was no disrespect. We just didnât care. We were too busy worrying about our own company and about our own stories, and about our own show to care what anybody else is doing. And thatâs one of the reasons why we did so well is that we were concentrating on AEW, not anything else. We could not control the fact that NXT was put up against us. We couldnât control the fact if, you know, thereâs a Beatles reunion put up against us, you know, whatever. We canât control that. All we can control is our own show on the quality of what weâre doing. And weâve worked very hard to improve the things that need improving and to focus on the things that weâre doing great. I think thatâs one of the reasons why weâve gone as far as we have and why our demos have crept up to where they are and where our ratings have crept up to where they are.â