Eric Bischoff On What He Told Vince McMahon About AEW, Comparisons To NXT

During the most recent episode of “After 83 Weeks”, Eric Bischoff discussed talking to Vince McMahon about his thoughts on AEW and more. Here are the highlights:

On Giving Vince His Honest Assessment Of AEW:

Vince asked me actually, a couple of days after the first episode aired, what I thought. I was pretty honest with him. I thought the action was good but I thought what made that show really stand out to me was just how engaged the audience is.

On The Crowd & Arena Size Being A Difference Maker For AEW:

The audience, to me, made their show so much better than the NXT show. Not that there’s anything wrong with the NXT show. The action in the ring was great. The characters are great. There are a lot of great things about it. But when you put a live event inside of a small, confined studio kind of like TNA, I don’t care how great the action is in the ring. It just doesn’t have that big event feel to it.

On If He’s Had Discussions With AEW:

I have not spoken with anybody from AEW. Not one conversation. The last conversation I had with anybody that’s currently in AEW was probably Cody Rhodes, and that was about two years ago. It was right after he left WWE and I called him, just to congratulate him and let him know how much I respected his decision.

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