AEW commentator Tony Schiavone recently discussed various topics on his podcast, “What Happened When,” including his decision to not watch WWE.
Schiavone said, “I would rather watch this now. A lot of people in wrestling backstage know what happens at WWE, and the WWE people know what happens on our show. The wrestlers do because they know each other, and they keep up with this stuff. I have no interest in watching WWE or NXT’s current stuff, and that’s not to say anything bad about what they’re doing.”
On why that’s the case:
“I just have no interest in it because I want us to cut our own path and not try to be anything like them.”
On being willing to watch other products:
“I do have an interest in watching old independent wrestling and old ECW and even old WWE back in the day, or old NXT we watched, of course, one of the matches we watched was, to me, the greatest woman’s match I’d ever seen with Sasha Banks and Bayley. And I like watching that, because those are guys and girls that I now know, back in the day, but the current stuff, I’ll just watch our stuff and not let anything they do, the WWE, influence how I call a match or what I do.”
You can check out the complete podcast in the video below.
(H/T to 411Mania.com for transcribing the above quotes)
