WWE Hall of Famer Jeff Jarrett, who is currently the Director of Business Development for All Elite Wrestling (AEW), recently appeared on an episode of his podcast, “My World with Jeff Jarrett.” In this episode, he discussed various topics, including the AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door event.
Jarrett said, “Forbidden Door is AEW, CMLL, and New Japan. I’m just — broad strokes. So it’s three promotions, and the card’s going to be off the charts. The O2 is going to be rocking. I’m just not real sure the bullets in the gun that NXT is going to have. But I’m going to say they’re going to have some… But why do that to NXT? There is no way from an online audience — , and again, there’s a value to this and that. But as the challenger brand, it just feels like, what is the upside?”
On there not being a competition between WWE NXT Heatwave and Forbidden Door:
“Because there’s no doubt that Forbidden Door will blow Heatwave out of the water from an online audience perspective…. And look, when you put a fast-food chicken restaurant, we’ve talked about this. There’s Raising Cane’s, there’s Slim Chickens, and Chick-fil-A in my hometown in Hendersonville going up right across the street, three side by side by side. We’re not selling chicken here, but I don’t know, Conrad. As the challenger brand, it feels like that TKO is giving us an opportunity to knock one clean out of the park again.”
You can check out the complete podcast in the video below.
(H/T to 411Mania.com for transcribing the above quotes)
