WWE Name Addresses Triple H’s ‘Secondary Promotion’ AEW Comments

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Current WWE NXT commentator Booker T has discussed Triple H’s recent comments in which he referred to Tony Khan’s AEW as a “secondary promotion”.

The comments came during the Cody Rhodes Peacock exclusive documentary ‘The American Nightmare: Becoming Cody Rhodes’, in which Triple H said regarding Cody’s exit from AEW in February 2022:

“It’s to take that gamble again and say ‘This is not what I wanted to be.

“I didn’t grow up dreaming of being the champion or the face of a secondary promotion.’”

This then led to AEW President Tony Khan to clap back at The Game in a recent interview with Orlando Sentinel, pointing towards their success in the UK as an example where AEW are not secondary, saying:

“We certainly won’t be the secondary promotion at All In. We’re No. 1 in the UK, on TV and with a record gate.

“I have a lot of respect for Cody. I know these weren’t his words, to be fair, but we’re not secondary in a lot of markets — for the first time in a long time, WWE has been secondary in a lot of markets….

“I’m proud of where we’re at and we’re not taking a back seat to anybody.”

While the comments from WWE’s Chief Content Officer were always likely to grind Khan’s gears, two-time WWE Hall of Famer Booker T thinks secondary could carry a different meaning to how Khan interpreted it.

Speaking on his Hall of Fame podcast Booker said:

“I don’t know. You know, I don’t even really know how to approach it or take it. It’s a comment. (laughs)

“You know what, secondary could could mean, I think, more than, you know, being in second. Secondary could be another company.

“Cody Rhodes grew up in the WWE, not TNA, not WCW, not AEW. That may be how I am; that’s how I’m approaching it… I’m saying is, one could have played himself by even commenting.

“Because there again, for me secondary is not a bad thing. It could be again, New Japan, AEW, TNA, WCW, it could be anything.

“Cody Rhodes grew up wanting to be the WWE champion, something his dad did not achieve. So that’s the way I’m looking at it.”

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