WWE reportedly amps up wrestling war against AEW with major move

Wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer believes that the rivalry between WWE and AEW will escalate as a special NXT show will be held on the same day as All Out.

According to the latest reports, NXT's next Premium Live Event is scheduled for September 4, which is also the day of AEW All Out in Chicago. While AEW's show will begin at 8 PM ET, WWE hasn't confirmed the time of NXT's show yet.

Speaking on the latest episode of Wrestling Observer Radio, Meltzer opined that the move by WWE's higher-ups is quite aggressive:

“With this being his first move, what’s interesting is that, that is a very aggressive move against AEW. I think that the AEW vs. WWE is going to heat up. If it was up to AEW they would both mind their own business and all of that, but that never worked with Vince. Although Vince had kind of stayed away from that. I guess this time with Paul Levesque and Stephanie [McMahon] there and Nick Khan running the show, people thought that they were only going to be interested in running their own stuff, but the bottom line, you were wrong." (H/T: ITR)

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Dave Meltzer says former WWE CEO Vince McMahon had the same competitive mentality against WCW

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, WCW became a rival to Vince McMahon's company until he decided to purchase the former for $4.2 million.

On the same episode of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer discussed the two wrestling wars and stated that McMahon was extremely competitive in nature:

I don’t think people understand, if you ever talk to anyone near the top of WWE about AEW, I mean, it’s just (…) I used to talk to Vince [McMahon] about WCW, and it’s almost the same.” (H/T: ITR)

Vince McMahon recently retired, so Stephanie McMahon & Nick Khan are now the co-CEOs of WWE, while Triple H is the new head of creative.

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