All Elite Wrestling commentator Tony Schiavone recently spoke on his podcast, “What Happened When,” about a number of professional wrestling topics including why he thinks WWE won the territory war in the 1980s.
Schiavone said, “When I’m watching this [old NWA match], I’m realizing why the WWF won. I’ve heard this before. I even think [Dave] Meltzer talked about this years ago. If you take this show, if you’re a program director and you look at this show and you look at what WWE was cranking out for Superstars and [Wrestling] Challenge. Yeah, now this this may have been pre-Superstars and Challenge but there’s no comparison to it. There was no comparison. These promoters did not know how to do a TV show. They knew how to do wrestling. You got to spend the money, man. You have to spend the money on production. WW has proved that year in and year out.”
You can check out the complete podcast below.
