Chris Jericho Says AEW Dynamite Had the Better Show in Head to Head Battle With WWE NXT

– During a recent interview with Daniel Trainor for The Messenger, AEW star Chris Jericho addressed the recent head-to-head battle between AEW Dynamite and WWE NXT earlier this month that saw NXT overtake Dynamite in the ratings and viewership. You can view some highlights of Jericho’s thoughts on the topic below:

Jericho on WWE NXT’s ratings win: “You know, you can only bring in Cena and Undertaker and Cody and everybody else so much because nobody wants to work on their secondary show all the time. And it was a fun little, ‘Hey, F-you AEW.’ I didn’t even really worry about it. I told Tony, ‘Well, if you want to fire back, bring in Shaq and Snoop Dogg and those types of guys, Mike Tyson. But Tony didn’t do that. We relied on our show and our guys and our girls, and that’s the way it’s always been for us. This would be like a football game where you bring in all of your top stars from years prior and beat the other team 30-26. It’s like a video game. Let’s bring in Tom Brady from five years ago and then play him for one game against Chris Jericho. OK, you guys won, but you only won 30-26.”

Jericho on AEW having a better show that night: “So, don’t get too far up your own ass because you didn’t do that good of a job as far as crushing us. And our show was better than theirs, quite frankly. So, it doesn’t bother me. It’s competition, man. It’s good for the fans, it’s good for the companies.”

AEW and WWE will have another head-to-head battle on November 17 between SmackDown and Collision due to Collision not airing in its regular timeslot that week due to AEW Full Gear, which falls on a Saturday this year.