“For Eric Bischoff, of all people, the guy who got lowered down on a motorcycle from a ceiling, a guy who challenged Vince McMahon to fight him, to say that somebody should be quiet is laughable. Eric is doing an act and I respect it but let’s be serious. Eric used to be a wrestling company executive and now he is a commentator, and as a commentator, he’s trying to stir up controversy. I think it would be pretty naive of anybody to look at this and not examine that the person talking is Eric Bischoff who’s the most outspoken wrestling executive of all time and somebody who got a lot of heat. If we’re going to be honest, the things I’m trying to do in terms of balancing these great stars we have like CM Punk, Chris Jericho, Bryan Danielson, and people who have come in with years of experience and they have lots of time on television as a big TV wrestling star. Then we have the people that have emerged here and have become TV wrestling stars in AEW like Kenny Omega, Hangman Page, and The Young Bucks. You also have a whole crew of people that are the young stars. A lot of them are becoming young, established stars on TV too. Whether it’s MJF, Britt Baker, Sammy Guevara, Jungle Boy, and so many others, Darby Allin in particular, these are stars I’m committed to keeping in AEW and not losing and building around. When Eric said, ‘Focus on the wrestling’, I am focused on the wrestling, pushing these people, and not running them out of the company like Chris Jericho who couldn’t get out of WCW fast enough. Eddie Guerrero was put in his place. The wrestlers were told by their boss that there were only three guys in the company, when Eric said that only Hogan, Savage, and Piper were the only three guys who had ever drawn money, of course, a slap in the face to a few other people in the room. But also, what does that say for the morale of the young wrestlers who are busting their a**es every week? It just doesn’t make sense.”
Tony was 100% right and didn’t even have to get into the gold club, spending 6 weeks eating catering as a supposed creative director, Bischoff hervey productions going bankrupt etc
And they were out of business a few years later largely because of him and his stupid decision making.
I like the promotion itself even if it’s not particularly my cup of tea
