It’s 1997. WWE’s biggest competitor airs weekly shows on TBS and TNT. Tony Schiavone is on commentary. Sting and Chris Jericho are there too.
It’s 25 years later. WWE’s biggest competitor once again airs weekly shows on TBS and TNT. Schiavone, Sting, and Jericho are still around. If you hadn’t been paying attention to the business for the last couple of decades, you might think that AEW is the continuation of WCW — just an unbroken chain of wrestlers making each other bleed, stretching back to Magnum T.