10 Things NXT Did Specifically To Beat AEW

9. Staying In Full Sail

WWE is the biggest wrestling company on the planet and they do great big huge wrestling shows in arenas and stadiums all over the world. So why then, is their third televised show, featuring some of the greatest pro wrestlers on the entire planet, being filmed in a University concert hall in front of a scant few hundred people?

Well, because the Full Sail crowd neither feels nor looks like a WWE crowd. They're loud, they're passionate, they turn out week on week in their droves and are about as far away from the corporate-spiel, window-dressing "universe" as it's possible to be. They feel like an alternative to the dead, tired crowds who shuffle in for Raw and SmackDown every week, which is precisely what AEW will be going for as well.

Staying in NXT's spiritual home guarantees an intimate, hot crowd every single week, something AEW have no assurances of getting as they hop around the country between various mid-sized arenas. They might well tap into that vein of raucous lapsed-WWE fans (they have to have gone somewhere) but NXT knows who's in the house every single show.