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2. TNT threatened to pull AEW Dynamite

AEW Dynamite is on roll since it’s inception and they’re even winning the demo wars with WWE flagship show Monday Night RAW. But, do you know that TNT threatened to pull AEW Dynamite from their network once because of one segment.

During an interview with Stephanie Chase, Chris Jericho revealed that because of one segment TNT execs were so furious that they threatened AEW that they’ll pull the show from their network. During one of the segments from AEW early days Jericho smoked a cigar on television and that irked several Warner media execs.

“One of ‘em actually was when we beat up Dustin Rhodes when I was feuding with Cody [Rhodes] way back at the beginning and we beat him up in the parking lot and then as we left, I lit up a cigar and they did not like that. ‘No smoking allowed on the show.’ They were super, super angry about it. ‘No smoking allowed’ and I was like, ‘Really? Out of all the things, that’s what they’re mad at?’”

“But they were very adamant that they did not want any smoking on the show and if you do this again — I don’t know if this was actually ever used but the way it was told to me was like, ‘We’ll pull the show if you guys do this again’ so it’s like all right, I don’t need to be smoking,” Jericho said.
Thanks to POST Wrestling for transcription

Warner media allowed violence, blood and even death matches on their network but surprisingly they were very adamant about smoking on live TV.

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