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I get what you are saying, truly i do.
But here is the thing, while you may not view it as a war and thats fine, WWE does, every deccision they have made in the last several months has been, for the most part, in realiation to AEW, getting Paul and Eric, NXT on Wednesdays, NXT Cardiff on August 31st, not letting superstars leave and practicly holding them hostage, you dont just do that randomly or on a whim, you do things like that if you are at war, and Vince sees this as a war, hes afraid of AEW and he wants to shut them down as fast as humanly possible.
WWE purposefully put NXT on USA Network just so syphon as many viewers as they can away from AEW because they want to make sure AEW doesnt get any bigger, they wanna stomp them out as fast as possible.
AEW on the other hand has said countless times they are just an alternative and they are just focusing on themselves and thats so smart and wise, but like Jericho himself said, its a war to WWE and they will do whatever they have to to stop AEW.
And thats why they put NXT head to head with AEW, they are going to war.
And ive not even talked about the fans yet, there will be constant back and forth of which show is better, between NXT and AEW debates people switching back and forth, ofcourse WWE Network subsribers have it easy, they can just watch AEW on Wednesday and watch NXT the day after.
And yes i get your earlyer point, about DVRing and such, but the thing is thats only a small percent of the overal viewers, majority of people will want to see it live, thats why Twitch is so successful as a platform, people prefer live over pretaped these days, if they can see it live, they will, sure some will DVR one show and watch the othe rlive, but even then think about it, even if you DVR one show and watch the other, its the same thing, your still watching one of the shows and not the other one.
My point is this, yes, i understand you dont see it as a war, i get what you are saying and thats fine, but its just not the case, not in WWEs eyes certainly, not in majority of fans eyes either, everyone sees this as a war, because WWE has turned it into one. WWE could have just not cared about AEW and continued their buisness as usual, but instead the moment AEW was real they made move after move after move in a effort to combat AEW, the list goes on and on. WWE made this a war.
