As we’ve been reporting here on eWn, AEW will be holding a trio of TV tapings next month at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City.
The events will take place less than 30 days before GCW heads there, and GCW President Brett Lauderdale doesn’t seem all that pleased that ROH Final Battle, AEW Collision and AEW Dynamite will be taking place just weeks before his event at the historic venue.
While appearing on a recent edition of the “Business Podcast,” Lauderdale opined on the timing of the AEW shows. He said,
“I don’t know Tony Khan personally and I don’t know enough of their people well enough to know or to speculate that they would particularly do something like that just to hurt us. With that being said, the traditional etiquette would be, there is a window where you don’t go to the same buildings. Should that window exist? You can call it an unwritten rule, or in many cases it’s a written rule. I’m sure when AEW goes to venues, they probably have a rule written in that no other wrestling show can go there within 30 days or 60 days. It’s a pretty standard practice in the wrestling business and a lot of entertainment industries, both written and unwritten.”
He continued, “Do I think they literally set out to look for a way to hurt GCW? I’m not ready to go that far with it. Do I think that maybe it wasn’t the most polite thing to do? Maybe. They are a billionaire company with endless resources and they run multiple television shows every week so they could run an event there anytime they wanted. They don’t have to do it in December or January. They can do it in February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September. They could do it every month if they wanted to, but they chose to do it in late December, which is less than 30 days before we are there. It’s not the greatest of circumstances for us.”
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