Interviewed about the return of” violence ” in WWE shows, and its main competitor at the time the AEW, Vince McMahon stated:

“We’re going a little over the edge, but we’re going to stay connected to PG TV…we’re not going back to the Attitude Era, we’re not blood people, guts, and stuff like that; things that a new competitor is already doing (referring to AEW),” he adds, “As far as competition is concerned, it can only do good. I think it’s good, in case they actually want to compete, that they drop the whole blood thing, and the glorification of what they’re doing. I can not speak about TNT but I can not imagine that they can endure for a long time certain behaviors””