All Elite Wrestling premieres on television tonight and thus begins the Wednesday Night Wars between AEW and NXT.
Joey Janela was recently interviewed by Wrestling Inc and was asked about the upcoming Wednesday Night Wars and how he feels hell be the one to take a shot at WWE during the broadcast.
Janela had this to say about the Wednesday Night Wars:
“I think it’s gonna be competitive. I don’t think it’s a war per se yet. I watched the [NXT] premiere a few weeks ago and it was okay. I don’t watch NXT and haven’t watched it in two years. There were other reasons I wanted to watch it as well *cough cough* Lio Rush who I wanted to see f*** up or not. But he did great. Besides that it was kinda stale. Their PPVs are spectacular; they’re big Saturday shows are great. I think it’s gonna be competitive and I think NXT knows what they’re doing. But AEW knows what they’re doing as well. So we’ll see what happens.”
Janela had this to say when asked if AEW will mention WWE at some point:
“I don’t know. I was a big, big WWE fan in the Attitude Era and I would like to be that prick. There’s a chance I could be that prick, so you’ll have to watch and see.”
The Bad Boy was asked if he was concerned over his record in AEW as well and had this to say:
“I don’t know. They’ve only been three PPVs so you can turn that around real fast. It’s a big roster right now. The pecking order is not an order yet so who knows what’s gonna happen? But I trust these guys and I like what I hear so far.”
Lastly, Joey Janela was asked if he will be lighting one up on TNT television:
“It’s being talked about. Can someone bring cigarettes back to TV in 2019? Vaping is the heel and smoking is kinda making a babyface turn. Smoking is about to make a 2002 Shawn Michaels unsanctioned return. For a sports-centric program, I don’t know if you can have smoking on TV. But you can have it on the YouTube shows. You can do it on YouTube, so it will always be there for me.”
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H/T to Wrestling INC for the transcription.
