Eric Bischoff is predicting chaos.
On October 10th, AEW Dynamite will go head-to-head with NXT after being moved from its regular timeslot on Wednesday night thanks to the MLB Playoffs. Both companies have loaded up their respective shows, with AEW hosting “Title Tuesday” and NXT calling on the likes of John Cena, Paul Heyman, Cody Rhodes, and Asuka.
WWE has even teased that The Undertaker could make an appearance.
To add even more spice to the situation, the most recent episode of NXT drew more viewers than the most recent episode of Dynamite.
Speaking on a recent episode of his podcast 83 Weeks, Eric Bischoff looked ahead to the clash, explaining that what WWE is doing with NXT is far from a knee-jerk reaction.
Yep, it got there. But people need to pull their head out of their ass or Dave Meltzer’s ass, or the dirt sheet’s ass and be honest and objective. Look at the fact that they’ve been stacking NXT now for several weeks and the numbers have been coming up for several weeks. And they’re not doing it because they’re afraid of AEW, or the genius creative of Tony Khan, which is non-existent.
They’re doing it because they’re in the middle of a negotiation, or they’re entering into negotiations, and they want the most money they can get for that show. Well, gee, how do you do that? Well, let’s put some of our A-listers on our C show. Because as much as you know, the hardcore, and I’m talking about the internet wrestling fans, not the general wrestling fan with reference to AEW. When you’re honest about it.
AEW, if Dynamite is their A show, NXT is their C show it’s a developmental property. It’s not apples to apples, it’s apples and cucumbers. Now we’re getting a little sample of a few and in this case coming up tomorrow night, a few more. You’re getting a few A-listers on what is your C show and everybody’s going ‘oh my God they are afraid of AEW.’
Grow the f*ck up. Just pull your head out of the dirt sheets. Look at things objectively go back and look at what’s been going on in the last several weeks. And allow yourself to recognise that there is actually the business to the wrestling business. And WWE is doing exactly what they should do and have been doing for a couple of weeks. And I don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow night. I don’t necessarily want to get into too, too much of a prediction other than I think it’s going to be a f*cking bloodbath.”
Eric Bischoff Discusses Vince McMahon’s WWE Role
During an episode of Strictly Business, Bischoff recently gave his thoughts on Vince McMahon retaining a great deal of power within WWE. Bischoff said that it’s no surprise to him that McMahon is still heavily involved as he has no hobbies or interests outside of running WWE.
He added that McMahon clearly has no desire to walk away from the company he feels he built.
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