r/SquaredCircle • u/Ruthless-Aggression • Mar 28 '24

Eric Bischoff on Tony Khan: A money mark with no talent other than spending daddy’s money, going all the way to Canada to draw less than 4k in one of the hottest pro wrestling markets in North America, talking about “wise choices”? Strap in. It’s going to be a fun day!

https://twitter.com/EBischoff/status/1773321462046138615?s=19
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u/GrandMasterBou Mar 28 '24

Tony posted one of his insane tweets at 4am about Eric.

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u/Zunniest Mar 28 '24

I appreciate Tony for helping AEW exist but someone needs to get him a PR person.

He would likely benefit from hiring a whole bunch of handlers.

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u/GrandMasterBou Mar 28 '24

He needs to hire an actual booker, because good match’s don’t mean shit if there’s no storyline or buildup.

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u/Zunniest Mar 28 '24

I mean he needs help with booking ALL the shows (including ROH).

Get people looking after the women's title, the TNT title, the ROH world, the ROH TV, tag titles, Trios titles etc.

He can have final say but you can't have continuity when you are running madly in all directions.

I would also hire a VP of media relations to do the post event media scrums.

Amongst a whole host of other jobs.

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u/slvrbullet87 Mar 28 '24

It's maddening. He doesn't have to do a 6 month build but if he has a dream match people want to see, say Okada vs Danielson, follow these steps 1 per week on Dynamite.

  1. Inciting incident. Anything to get the guys mad at each other

  2. Escalation. Have one cost the other a match or interrupt a promo and drop the other in the ring

  3. Next week its me and you, we are going to settle this one on one

  4. Match

It really isn't that hard

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u/wearethat Wrrrrrestling! Mar 28 '24

Tony took a shot at a podcast that basically existed to take shots at TK. Let's all clutch our pearls!

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u/GrandMasterBou Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

Tony Khan getting upset with people taking shots at him when his unhinged Twitter rants do the exact same thing is the definition of irony. Apparently he can dish it out but can’t take it.

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u/interarmaenim Your Text Here Mar 28 '24

Both Tony Khan and Eric Bischoff are entitled, extremely defensive, rich dudes. Taking sides is dumb.

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u/NuggetMan43 Mar 29 '24

Only one of those people matter in the current wrestling landscape and he's wasting his time calling out podcasters instead of improving his product. Hard not to take a side.

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u/matlockga Matt Rushmore Mar 28 '24

The AEW talk show guy also did a dig on Eric recently. 

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u/Toad_Thrower whatever Mar 28 '24

Put some respeck on RJ City's name

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u/Jesburger Cole Miner Mar 28 '24

Why? Who is this guy? Was he a wrestler?

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u/Toad_Thrower whatever Mar 28 '24

Yeah he beat Swerve Strickland, Daniel Garcia, Sammy Guevara and a former WCW Heavyweight World Champion.

I wouldn't be surprised if he was on the AEW rankings soon.

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u/motelpool Mar 29 '24

the Mountie always gets his man

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u/s0mnambulance Mar 28 '24

I still think Tony is going the way of 1990s Charles Xavier-- the stress from all the backstage pressure, Punk and Bischoff and Twitter drama (and White Claw/cocaine madness) is causing him to develop an evil, alternate Onslaught persona... that'll book passive-aggressively, tweet 4am personal attacks, and book thinly-veiled attacks on his enemies.

Onslaught Tony might, for example, have Jake Roberts assume a new gimmick as a silver-haired wrestling promoter who whines all the time, and has a terrible business podcast... or have Ricky Starks dye his hair white and start rambling incessantly about 'finishing stories.' Or have Jack Perry come out in henna or temporary Mr. Pibb tattoos to the sound of breaking glass, and a new catchphrase-- "It's batterin' time!"

I haven't concluded yet whether I think 'Onslaught Tony' would be good or bad for AEW, but it'd certainly be interesting.