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AEW President Tony Khan recently spoke with Forbes to hype up this weekend’s Revolution pay per view, an event that features the return of Sting, an exploding barbed wire deathmatch, and the reveal of a major signing.
During the interview the energetic Khan would be asked about the possibility of WWE’s third brand, NXT, moving to a different night, which would leave Dynamite on TNT to run unopposed.
I don’t know if that’s a real thing or not, but it would be great to be unopposed and I’d love to have an unopposed audience. When we have, we’ve done some really good numbers and I think that would be awesome.
The now dubbed Wednesday Night Wars has seemingly divided the wrestling fan-base over what they should be watching similarly to the more popular Monday Night Wars between WWE and WCW back in the late 90s. Khan relates the bickering to that of sports fans and believes it to be a healthy reaction of passionate consumers.
I think it’s—like sports fans—it’s a healthy thing. I think there was maybe more of this [online bickering] during the Monday Night Wars on the internet than people might have realized.
Khan later adds that he was quite active on the internet at an early age, and doesn’t believe that the reactions of today’s fans differ from the days when fewer people were online.
As I got older, I went through phases. From probably Age 12 through Age 15, most of my life was online, and most of my time spent was spent on wrestling online…so it was a lot like this, actually. There were people that were very strong on one side or the other, and there were some people who were really 100% one way or the other, 90% one way or the other; 80%, whatever. And you leaned one way or another. I think there were a lot of people like that on the internet, but there just were way less people on the internet. When I was a kid it was pretty much firing back and forth, very similar.
You can check out the full interview here.