Cody Rhodes warned last year of the intentions of AEW to compete face-to-face against Raw for 2025, motivated by the victories week yes week also of Dynamite on NXT in the “Wednesday Night Wars.” And if then his words were taken as a joke by many followers, today they no longer look like nonsense.
After the exposition by Rhodes, AEW has experienced two very considerable jumps in mediaticity thanks to Sting and CM Punk, achieving that several Dynamite ratings will outperform Raw’s in the 18-49 demographic. And this popularity is expected to increase even further thanks to new hires; dynamics that we will see if it is productive in the long term and Tony Khan does not reproduce WCW bugs.
► The inevitable, according to Chris Jericho
Although one of the stars always pays to account for the growth of AEW, Chris jericho, do not think you have to wait for 2025. These were his words under recent intervention in Busted Open Radio.
«Sooner or later, we’ll start beating Raw. It won’t be every week, but I bet you In the next two or four months, maybe six, we’re going to start beating Raw, and it’s the prediction that I make to you guys, here and now. And the reason is that We keep talking about AEW having the ‘cool’ factor, but it’s all about the narrative. We are not scared, we are not in a hurry. We live in our own world and we program well. We program intelligently. If you watch our show, it’s like watching the first three episodes of ‘Star Wars’. One thing always leads to the next and sometimes you will see the seeds planted months before, but we always know what we want to do and where we want to go ».
.@IAmJericho puts EVERYTHING on the line in one FINAL FIGHT against @The_MJF at #AEWAllOut TOMORROW at 8e / 5p LIVE on PPV! If Jericho loses, he will never wrestle in #AEW again – How to Watch All Out: https://t.co/29mWMw2Ivs pic.twitter.com/8vEtZ2kLbK
– All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) September 4, 2021