Eric Bischoff doesn’t believe AEW is near as big as WCW was.
Bischoff, who was the head honcho in WCW, has always had a love hate relationship with AEW which seems to change at the tip of the hat. While Tony Khan has been dismissive of Bischoff’s critiques, many fans have agreed with the WWE Hall Of Famer.
While speaking to Riju Dasgupta, Eric Bischoff addressed Tony Khan’s comparison of AEW and WCW.
“At one point I saw in an interview that Tony [Khan] did where he said, this is like two years ago now… he said AEW is right now where WCW was in 1996. By 1996 I had already… let me make a correction, I beat Vince McMahon and WWE RAW, 83 straight weeks. I beat him well over a hundred weeks. Because we started out competitive. In 1995, we were head-to-head, and one week we would win and another week WWE would win, it was back and forth.”
“Tony’s not even close. Tony’s not even within a fraction of the level WCW was in 1996. But again, I took exception to it… Because I understood what he was trying to do. Sometimes it is easy when you are as passionate as Tony is, and you are trying to promote your company… and sometimes, like I have done in the past, you say things that are just a little bit of an exaggeration. And I think in Tony’s case it was just delusional, it wasn’t even close to being real.”
Eric Bischoff
Bischoff as mentioned has been very negative for the most part about AEW, but has had times where he has praised the company, including when he stated that he believed All In would outsell WWE Clash At The Castle.
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