Throughout a current look on the Enterprise of the Enterprise podcast, GCW proprietor Brett Lauderdale talks on AEW holding the ROH Closing Battle PPV, Collision and Dynamite at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom a month earlier than GCW holds it’s PPV “The Folks vs. GCW” PPV on the similar venue, on Saturday, January 19, 2025.
ROH Closing Battle takes place on the Hammerstein Ballroom on December 20, with Collision the following evening on December 21 after which a particular Dynamite taping on December 22.
“I don’t know Tony Khan personally and I don’t know sufficient of their folks effectively sufficient to know or to invest that they’d significantly do one thing like that simply to harm us. With out that being mentioned, the standard etiquette can be, there’s a window the place you don’t go to the identical buildings. Ought to that window exist? You possibly can name it an unwritten rule, or in lots of instances it’s a written rule. I’m certain when AEW goes to venues, they in all probability have a rule written in that no different wrestling present can go there inside 30 days or 60 days. It’s a fairly customary apply within the wrestling enterprise and quite a lot of leisure industries, each written and unwritten. Do I believe they actually got down to search for a technique to harm GCW? I’m not able to go that far with it. Do I believe that possibly it wasn’t essentially the most well mannered factor to do? Possibly. They’re a billionaire firm with countless assets and so they run a number of tv exhibits each week so they might run an occasion there anytime they needed. They don’t should do it in December or January. They’ll do it in February, March, April, Could, June, July, August, September. They might do it each month in the event that they needed to, however they selected to do it in late December, which is lower than 30 days earlier than we’re there. It’s not the best of circumstances for us…I’m not making an attempt to inflammatory or instigate in any means, however it’s in lots of instances a written rule. There are a sure variety of days that you’ve got exclusivity in a constructing and also you don’t go in if someone is already there. It’s a sort of factor that an organization like AEW or WWE would sue a venue for in the event that they let someone else in. It could be a breach of contract. There are guidelines to this. It doesn’t shock me that WWE, and I’m solely going by stories that you simply’ve heard, however it wouldn’t shock me that WWE can be instructed no as a result of there may be already someone right here. That’s the best way it goes. Didn’t they used to say Vince McMahon would guide Madison Sq. Backyard so regularly only for the aim of conserving everybody else out? He knew if he ran this many occasions, the window can be shut on everyone else.’
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