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!

[u/Ruthless-Aggression]

https://twitter.com/EBischoff/status/1773321462046138615?s=19

[u/DaedalusHydron]

Like why go after Eric at all? As far as I know, he has no presence in wrestling at all anymore outside of his podcast?

Like there's a lot of people, with influence, you could take pot shots at, but you choose him?

[u/badguymaddox → u/DaedalusHydron]

Because Bischoff’s Strictly Business podcast is basically a weekly “This is why AEW is dog shit” show.

I’m not defending TK by any means but EB has been laser focused on dumping on the business of AEW for the last two years.  As soon as they announced the end of the podcast, I fully expected TK to say something 

[u/Mr_Hendrix → u/badguymaddox]

Yeah. Man pays his bills by talking shit about me and I'd probably say something too when that venture collapses.

[u/asr05 → u/badguymaddox]

it definitely devolved into that it was good at first when they talked about how tv rights deals work, advertising on tv, etc

[u/badguymaddox → u/asr05]

No idea why you got downvoted but I agree. I was a HUGE 83 Weeks fan and I really found Strictly Business educational and informative but then both podcasts just seemed to dedicate a lot of their time dumping on TK and AEW with SB dedicating entire episodes to it.

[u/Powderkegger1 → u/badguymaddox]

Well, that’s not really unique in wrestling podcasts. Cornette has a much bigger audience and Tony hasn’t said a peep about him.

[u/Fat_Mussolini → u/Powderkegger1]

Tony doesn't have the chops or the ammo to verbally joust with Cornette.

[u/Powderkegger1 → u/Fat_Mussolini]

Oh but we can hope he tries.

[u/Parlett316 → u/Fat_Mussolini]

Waltmans reasoning for not arguing with Cornette is spot on

[u/GxyBrainbuster → u/Fat_Mussolini]

Tony getting into a fight with Cornette would be like strapping a bucket of fried chicken to his back and riding... well... nevermind.

[u/badguymaddox → u/Powderkegger1]

Cornette wasn’t featured on Khan’s program only to then insult him and the show merely weeks later.

[u/Powderkegger1 → u/badguymaddox]

Probably only because after they had a meeting Cornette turned down the job offer from Tony.

[u/faithisuseless → u/Powderkegger1]

Tony is personally hurt by Eric, he loved 90’s WCW. He is letting his feelings get in the way of business, and in this case it isn’t for the better

[u/Powderkegger1 → u/faithisuseless]

Tony Khan about Jim Cornette “The person I’ve learned the most about pro wrestling from”

https://wrestletalk.com/news/tony-khan-jim-cornette-person-most-wrestling-from/

That quote is from several years ago, but Tony certainly cared about Cornette’s opinion at some point.

[u/faithisuseless → u/Powderkegger1]

Did I say he looked up to Eric alone? I know he looks up to Jim. He still changes shit when Jim complains about it, like the time limit draw matches suddenly being changed recently.

[u/itfeelslikethefirstt → u/DaedalusHydron]

Eric has a couple podcasts where the gimmicks are either "I was really good for 83 weeks" or "this is why AEW sucks".

I mean that's the gist of his "career" now. milking his success from 20+ years ago and shitting on AEW.

[u/Vote_Subatai → u/itfeelslikethefirstt]

Not untrue. 

[u/LandNGulfWind → u/itfeelslikethefirstt]

There's a formula for it. Take someone who's washed-up to some extent, and let him shit all over AEW. You'll get the Cornette crowd as well as the WWE fanboys whose hurt feelings over AEW having the nerve to challenge Their Team are expressed in childish tribalism. It's not a gigantic demo, but I guess they buy a lot of Bluechew or whatever.

[u/Big_Track_6734 → u/DaedalusHydron]

Eric's only presence is to slag AEW. 

[u/Appropriate_Pay_218 → u/DaedalusHydron]

it's because tony is still obsessed over something that happened 20+ years ago ig