Love or hate him, Eric Bischoff has a great many insights into the world of professional wrestling. He was in charge of WCW when the company was winning the Monday Night Wars and also at the helm of a failing promotion which became a sinking ship during its final years on television.
Recently, we've heard rumblings that Warner Bros. Discovery might be considering ditching AEW in preference of RAW. A rights deal for WWE's flagship show has yet to be secured and with AEW Dynamite, Rampage, and Collision all unable to grow their respective audiences week-to-week, RAW is bound to be a more appealing prospect.
Talking on his 83 Weeks podcast, Bischoff shared his take on the possibility of WBD cutting ties with AEW and shared his take on why Tony Khan should be, and likely is, extremely worried.
"Tony's been so focused on satisfying the internet wrestling community or winning Dave Meltzer's Booker of the Year award two years in a row and catering to the smallest, smallest, smallest portion of what has become a very broad audience for professional wrestling. He's made himself unattractive, in my opinion, or less attractive to potential television buyers including his current television partner."
Bischoff would go on to say that he believes AEW has made the mistake of delivering too many brutal moments to appease fans and used the incident with Nick Gage slicing open Chris Jericho's head with a pizza cutter before a Domino's Pizza commercial aired as an example.
After being told that Khan believes there's nothing to worry about, the WWE Hall of Famer added, "He's full of sh***. Tony is out there selling his a** off because he knows he's in trouble."
"You and your roster went out every week when you launched and started tearing down your competition," Bischoff continued. "Every opportunity you had to criticize WWE and their fanbase and now you're crying like a little b*** because it comes back to haunt you?"
All signs point to AEW being in trouble but if TNA/IMPACT Wrestling could last this long, there's no reason to believe this company won't do the same (particularly when Tony's father is a billionaire). It might just find itself on a much smaller network as the latest wrestling promotion to unsuccessfully challenge WWE.
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