Eric Bischoff – 'Tony Khan Is Either Going To Get Run Over By A Truck, Or …'
01/21/2025 02:32 PM
During a recent edition of his “83 Weeks,” podcast, Eric Bischoff explained why WWE chose to host Saturday Night's Main Event on the same date, July 12, as AEW All: In Texas 2025.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On if WWE did the scheduling opposite AEW All In: Texas intentionally: "First of all, he can't do battle. He's either going to get run over by a truck, or he's going to move and be embarrassed. There is no battle… Here's what's hard for me to believe. The door is open for me, but this kind of a move — if indeed it was designed intentionally and not just a manifestation of weeks worth of programming and planning and ad sales influences and sports and blah, blah, blah. There's a million things that go into programming a schedule. On the surface, I'm laughing my a*s off because you know, it's a ballsy move but I don't see them taking it. I don't see them, being NBC or WWE, putting themselves at any kind of legal exposure for predatory practices. Because that's just fun in a way. AEW financially is not a threat to anybody or anything. They're operating in their own universe, and it's fulfilling the owner's goals, and it really doesn't have anything to do, with the exception of some talent transitions from time to time but there's even less of those now.
"So I can't see NBC or WWE or TKO going, 'Okay, let's just, let's kick them.' I don't see it. I think it was more than likely, because I think they're risk-averse, they being TKO and NBC. They don't want to end up in court over something like this. It's not worth it, there's no upside to it. I think it's just probably a matter of weeks and months worth of scheduling and planning and going, 'Okay, we need one this quarter. Where's the best place for it?' And, 'Oh by the way, look what else is going on?' That's my guess is that's what happened. I don't think it was an intentional Crockett-type move, as you pointed out, I don't think it was malicious. Feels that way, looks that way, but I think it's too risky to do that."
On whether AEW should have put the World Title on Powerhouse Hobbs: "Right now I would consider anything if I was Tony Khan. Because all you need to do is, you know, find some comments about Death Riders. Find anything on social media, go to Twitter or whatever and just look at any of the threads. The audience has made up their minds, they're done with it. And it's overwhelming, it's not close. Most of the time. It's issues like this are always 50-50, 60-40 sometimes. This is like 95 to five. It's dead, it's not working, why not? What have you got to lose? There's nothing but potential upside. Because this story isn't working. It's easy to figure that out. You're a data analyst or whatever you are, head of math at the Jaguars. Look at your own math and come to a conclusion. It's pretty simple. It's not working.
"So now you've got an opportunity. People are excited about it. They're anticipating it. They want it for him. The flame has been lit. All you've got to do is add a little fuel to it and give the guy a push. And it's not like you have to do a risk analysis. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain, which is why they won't do it."
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