On the most recent episode of the Corridor of Fame podcast, Booker T talked about Mark Henry lately saying there’s not a struggle between AEW and WWE, whether or not he agrees with Henry’s take and extra. You possibly can try some highlights beneath:
On there being a struggle between WWE and AEW: “You understand, Mark Henry mentioned there’s no WWE-AEW struggle. I don’t know what this dude’s been smoking. Okay. It’s a struggle. It’s a struggle. If there wasn’t a struggle, each time an enormous [rating] quantity goes down, they wouldn’t be evaluating it to WWE. And I get 80,000 plus, you recognize — that’s rather a lot, man. Wembley Stadium, that’s an enormous present. And the factor is, that’s nice for AEW. It truly is, it’s actually nice for AEW. And the factor is, how lengthy they’ve been selling this factor now? I imply, they’ve had time to promote 80,000 tickets as effectively. So it’s nice for them. And the factor is that’s considerably of a struggle, as a result of [being] sensitive about being referred to as second tier simply final week. One would assume that it’s a struggle.
“And the factor is, there’s nothing incorrect with it being a struggle. One factor Mark Henry mentioned is also that it’s not a struggle, the followers are successful. In a struggle, yeah the followers do win. As a result of guys obtained to go on the market they usually’ve obtained to run quick. You possibly can’t run at that standard tempo that you simply had been working earlier than while you have been simply on the monitor training. If you end up in competitors man, you bought to, you bought to choose up velocity. And that’s what everyone is doing. So for me, being in a struggle isn’t a foul factor.”
On the scores of AEW Rampage and WWE SmackDown: “The Smackdown score got here out this week, and it was down from final week. This week they drew 2,097,000. After which Rampage numbers got here out additionally on the identical evening. They usually did… 398,000. And the factor is, I feel that these numbers ought to be rather a lot greater. That’s what I’m pondering greater than something. However 398,000 on the identical evening as Smackdown. That’s not that nice of a quantity. And it looks as if one ought to be maybe involved if there’s struggle. If there’s not a struggle, there’s no downside. However I do assume it’s a struggle. And the struggle, it’s not going to occur abroad. It’s going to occur proper right here within the States.”
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