Chavo Guerrero Jr. Compares His AEW Experience To WCW
Chavo Guerrero compares former employers following his AEW departure.
Now-former All Elite Wrestling personality Chavo Guerrero has compared his experience in the Tony Khan-helmed promotion to his time in World Championship Wrestling, doing so during an appearance on The Wrestling Inc. Daily.
Speaking with Nick Hausman, Guerrero, who was recently removed from the AEW roster to his own surprise, stated that aspects of the company were "WCW-esque," particularly the roster size:-
“It felt a little WCW-esque, a lot of wrestlers there. But they have a lot of shows, they have a lot of content to fill. Then they added a third show, they have the Dark show, they have Rampage, I can’t even name them, there’s a bunch of them. There’s definitely spots for a lot of the guys, for sure. I felt that there were a lot of people there, but I didn’t even want to analyze that, that was above my paygrade.”
Quietly pulled from AEW's roster page earlier this month, Chavo immediately tweeted his shock at the situation, alleging that Tony Khan had gone back on a promise that Guerrero would be able to return to the company upon finishing work on the latest season of Young Rock. That tweet has since been deleted.
Khan commented on the Chavo situation during last week's AEW Revolution 2022 media scrum, saying he owed him a call (h/t SEScoops):-
“I am gonna call Chavo. I’m about — to be honest, I was a little surprised cause I only missed one message from him and then he went to the media after I missed one message from him. I don’t wanna say what Chavo got paid for being the stunt coordinator for Young Rock but he got paid a huge amount of money and he asked if he could take the time off and leave. I said like — he was not under contract, he was on a weekly deal. So, I said, ‘I would love to have you back and I do like you a lot and you did a great thing,’ but now we’re gonna have to make our plans going forward without him here. We made plans going forward without him here and we went on and we’ve done a lot of great stuff and I really like him. He did great stuff for us. I definitely owe him a phone call and I was a little surprised to hear that.”
Guerrero's time on AEW television lasted only a couple of months after debuting as Andrade El Idolo's executive consultant in July 2021. The 51-year-old wrestled for WCW between 1996 and 2001.