10 Best Times AEW Threw Shade At WWE

10. Tony Khan Takes Rightful Credit

On a principle level: in business, if you're clearly better than the competition, why not broadcast that? Why not publicise it?

Bragging is a heel move, and AEW is the apparent babyface company. It's understandable that this dissonance alienates some. But WWE is something beyond the heel company. On a near daily basis, something surfaces that indicts them. A shockingly awful pay-per-view that proves wildly damaging to talent. News of lowball pay. Placing immunocompromised performers in positions of risk. At this rate, they are hiding EC3 in a bunker with no food, as ironic penance for his "Catering was delicious" tweet, and we'll find out over the weekend.

On this week's Monday Night RAW, WWE belatedly listened to widespread complaints over its distractingly stubborn attempt to run an empty arena show as if nothing had changed. Production moved the hard camera in front of the entrance ramp so as to not remind the viewers at home of a better, less bizarre time.

Clearly inspired by AEW - the first empty arena Dynamite in comparison to RAW was a tale of two UWFs - President Tony Khan responded to Bryan Alvarez's relieved tweet to take cheeky credit.