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Show host Satiar Shah insists he’s comfortable with a variety of topics when Sportsnet 650 hits the airwaves Monday morning. Pro wrestling, if need be, could be in his wheelhouse.

“Yes, it does feel a little bit like the Monday Night Wars,” Shah said, prompted by a comparison from an interviewer between this Vancouver sports talk radio duel between newcomer Sportsnet 650 and incumbent TSN 1040 and that 1990s battle for TV ratings between WCW and WWE.

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“Would that make me Scott Hall? OK. I’ll gladly take Scott Hall. Why not?”

Hall, of course, helped ignite that joust for supremacy between the wrestling companies when he jumped from WWE to WCW in 1996. Shah had been producer of TSN 1040’s morning drive program — the Bro Jake Show — but left in June for a higher profile gig with the new crosstown rival.

Sportsnet 650 parent company Rogers Media signed a five-year deal with the Vancouver Canucks for their radio rights last March, ending an 11-season run between the National Hockey League club and TSN 1040, who are owned by Bell Media, a rival of Rogers in both the broadcasting and mobile phone markets.

A month after the Canuck deal, Rogers announced it would go head-to-head, hour-by-hour with TSN 1040 by having Sportsnet 650 up and running in time for the 2017-18 NHL campaign. The new show played some highlight clips from this week’s rehearsals and it all starts for real Monday.