The Wednesday Night War rages on into the new year!

AEW won year one, but WWE has not conceded! Will NXT make a recovery to start the Wednesday Night War’s second year?

Let’s take just a quick look back at Year One.

I was keeping track of my own scores all year, so trust in the fact I did the math right on the numbers I gave. Going by “phase to phase,” aka quarters (which I admit to setting rather arbitrarily), AEW won 3-1, only losing that first phase to NXT because they were still finding their footing. After that, AEW just took off like a rocket and kept going strong during an otherwise rough year in 2020. That of course translated to an overall win by 0.08.

TOTAL FIRST YEAR SCORES: NXT – 9.13; AEW – 9.21
YEAR ONE WINNER: AEW

Now we look at Year Two’s first phase!

Year Two, Phase One Final Scores: NXT – 9.13; AEW – 9.16

Year Two, Phase One Analysis

Wow, NXT was really choppy this time. And don’t worry, NXT went past 12/9/20, it’s just that they and AEW tied those last three weeks. And you’ll notice that I left 12/30/20, the last Wednesday of the year, off because of the circumstances. Jon Huber, aka Brodie Lee aka Luke Harper, past away just days before that night, and AEW changed their plans to give us a “Celebration of Life” tribute episode. It did not feel right trying to give that show a score, because it wasn’t supposed to be about AEW but about Jon Huber. And to be fair to AEW’s score, I left off NXT’s episode for that night, even though NXT did have great action on their Year-End Award episode.

But the scores themselves reflect how the other phases have gone. AEW led by 0.03 to end Year One, and that’s the gap NXT led to start last year. This bodes well for AEW again being a Mitchell Medal winner, but the second year has only just begun!

Year Two, Phase Two Predictions

Something a little different this time, because there isn’t much I had to conclude. And this isn’t too much of a prediction, it’s obvious Phase Two is going to start big! NXT has New Year’s Evil on 1/6/21 and it might as well be a TakeOver on television! Rhea Ripley VS Raquel Gonzalez in Last Woman Standing, Tommaso Ciampa VS Timothy Thatcher in the Fight Pit, and a rematch from TakeOver 31 of Finn Balor VS Kyle O’Reilly for the NXT Championship, that card is STACKED! But AEW having moved things back a week to honor Jon Huber, they’ll be having the New Year’s Smash two parter to start the year with their own big cards, I expect these scores getting up again to 9.4 or higher.