While speaking to Ariel Helwani this week, AEW President Tony Khan commented on his critics such as former WCW President Eric Bischoff. Here is what Khan said about Bischoff\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cI do respect his opinions. I think he talks about AEW a lot because AEW is on every Wednesday night, every Saturday night, and it gives them good content to talk about. In his case, I think it\u2019s interesting because he spends a lot of time talking about AEW, but I think he\u2019s also cognizant that there were a lot of media personalities and former wrestling promoters who had strong, vocal opinions of him. And I\u2019m not trying to say that I\u2019ve done more than him.\u201d<\/p>\n
During his 83 Weeks podcast, Bischoff issued a response to Khan\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what to think. He didn\u2019t really answer\u2014he didn\u2019t really talk about my critique other than saying, \u2018I talk about AEW a lot.\u2019 Let me make something really clear: I don\u2019t like talking about AEW. I had a conversation with you six months ago or so where I said, \u2018I just don\u2019t want to talk about it anymore. There\u2019s nothing new to talk about.\u2019<\/p>\n
So if I get asked a question in the course of doing my show, I\u2019m going to give an answer. I\u2019m not going to respond with, \u2018Oh, I don\u2019t want to talk about that.\u2019 It\u2019s not what I do. It\u2019s not what the show is about. But at the same time, I don\u2019t spend much time thinking about AEW, and I try not to think about it unless I\u2019m asked a question.<\/p>\n
My criticism toward Tony Khan and AEW has been\u2014granted, it\u2019s probably been a little salty, probably drew blood once or twice\u2014but my criticism is based in fact. It\u2019s based in experience. It\u2019s based on what\u2019s going on today. And me being critical of what AEW has\u2014and Dave Meltzer calls stories\u2014for example, I\u2019ve been talking about the lack of story, good story, actual story, the lack of it in AEW for five and a half years.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been talking about the characters and the way they\u2019re presented, and the way the wrestling is presented, for the last five or six years. And in the process of talking about what\u2019s wrong and what could be better, I\u2019ve also predicted what the outcome of AEW would be from a ratings perspective and an audience perspective if these things are not addressed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bischoff said that he hopes Khan would listen to criticism\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it was nice of him to say nice things about me. I\u2019m always happy to hear that. He didn\u2019t say anything negative, so I don\u2019t have anything to react to other than: I wish Tony would listen to criticism\u2014whether it\u2019s from me or Jim Cornette, who I think is probably smarter than me in many respects. He\u2019s got a different feel than I do in terms of the wrestling product, and it\u2019s a valuable perspective. You may not like the way it comes out. You may not like the package that that information is in. But the value of that information is nonetheless really important.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bischoff was asked if he was open to having a meeting with Khan\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not against it. I just don\u2019t know what the purpose would be. But you know me\u2014sit me down with a glass of wine and a steak, and I\u2019ll talk to anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While speaking to Ariel Helwani this week, AEW President Tony Khan commented on his critics such as former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,134952,86360],"class_list":{"0":"post-300418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-eric-bischoff","12":"tag-tony-khan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}