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Post by eJm on Oct 15, 2019 13:37:11 GMT -5
This was always going to be the end game.
It’s more shocking that he lasted this long to be honest.
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Oct 15, 2019 13:37:19 GMT -5
Confirmed: Mongo and Eric Bischoff to guest commentate for AEW Dark in Chicago. They're still trying to see if one of Pepe's ancestors can make the date.
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Post by TWERKIN' MAGGLE on Oct 15, 2019 13:37:59 GMT -5
We seem to be on an endless loop of Vince stooges. God forbid they give someone new the job. It's not even a real job, Vince is still running the creative straight into a nosedive. He's like Rita Repulsa at this point. His plan may have failed this week, but next week he'll try the exact same thing and it'll definitely work that time.
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Post by cabbageboy on Oct 15, 2019 13:40:16 GMT -5
Well, I dunno what exactly Bischoff was bringing to the table but this does feel like a scapegoating for a bad 2nd week drop in ratings. It does make one wonder if he'll end up in AEW doing something or other.
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Oct 15, 2019 13:43:53 GMT -5
Well, I dunno what exactly Bischoff was bringing to the table but this does feel like a scapegoating for a bad 2nd week drop in ratings. It does make one wonder if he'll end up in AEW doing something or other. What would he do, though? They've already got the business side covered, and he's admittedly never meddled much with creative beyond the nWo. He might make a really good "commissioner" type character, only using him a few times a year to get big angles over.
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Post by realist on Oct 15, 2019 13:45:21 GMT -5
I have it on very good authority that Luke Harper, Mike Bennett, and countless other WWE performers are blowing up Eric Bischoff's phone asking how he got out of there so fast.
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Post by Moppy on Oct 15, 2019 13:48:23 GMT -5
Serious answer though, Bruce Prichard is 56. Heyman 54, Bischoff 64 and obviously Vince is 74. Even Trips turned 50 recently. I'm all for following the wisdom of the most experienced brains available, but isn't it time to try handing "creative development" over to someone who's under *50 years old*? Could that be why they are struggling so badly to connect to a younger demographic? Bisch is 64?!?!? What the hell man! Would have thought he was early 50s! According to wikipedia. I can never believe he's a full decade older than Heyman.
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Post by Nosnorb on Oct 15, 2019 13:48:27 GMT -5
Hopefully that wanker will stay well away from AEW.
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Post by TWERKIN' MAGGLE on Oct 15, 2019 13:50:05 GMT -5
Why does everyone assume you can just get into Tony Khan's limo on your way out the door of WWE?
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Post by realist on Oct 15, 2019 13:52:03 GMT -5
Why does everyone assume you can just get into Tony Khan's limo on your way out the door of WWE? It's not their fault that they think that way. That's how it worked with Dixie Carter.
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Post by Chiral on Oct 15, 2019 13:52:52 GMT -5
I'M (not) BACK! AND I'M (not) BETTER THAN EVER! Rebuild of WWEvangelion 1.0: You Can (not) Return
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Post by TWERKIN' MAGGLE on Oct 15, 2019 13:54:24 GMT -5
I'M (not) BACK! AND I'M (not) BETTER THAN EVER! Rebuild of WWEvangelion 1.0: You Can (not) Return WWE needs to start promising more fanservice at the end of each episode. That'll bring the viewers back.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2019 13:57:36 GMT -5
Doesn't seem like he was there three minutes.
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Post by EyeofTyr on Oct 15, 2019 13:58:07 GMT -5
Won't matter in significant way unless Bruce was replacing Vince.
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Post by Perd on Oct 15, 2019 14:00:52 GMT -5
Yeah, Eric was always probably on borrowed time. Especially when guy taking your job has a nose that permanently smells like Vince’s ass.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2019 14:01:51 GMT -5
I have it on very good authority that Luke Harper, Mike Bennett, and countless other WWE performers are blowing up Eric Bischoff's phone asking how he got out of there so fast.
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Post by toodarkmark on Oct 15, 2019 14:05:16 GMT -5
Why does everyone assume you can just get into Tony Khan's limo on your way out the door of WWE? This drives me nuts. 7 of the 40 of the male wrestlers were in WWE. 1 of the 3 full time announcers. Every time someone leaves "I can see so and so in AEW"... just stop. Maybe a one off appearance, like Jake Roberts, but after so many failures in a row, what use is Bishoff to AEW?
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Post by Ryushinku on Oct 15, 2019 14:14:28 GMT -5
Time to fire up the ol' meat truck in Minneapolis.
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Post by Nosnorb on Oct 15, 2019 14:18:23 GMT -5
Why does everyone assume you can just get into Tony Khan's limo on your way out the door of WWE? This drives me nuts. 7 of the 40 of the male wrestlers were in WWE. 1 of the 3 full time announcers. Every time someone leaves "I can see so and so in AEW"... just stop. Maybe a one off appearance, like Jake Roberts, but after so many failures in a row, what use is Bishoff to AEW? None.
And those 7 Singles Wrestlers are -
A former WWE Main Eventer that actually moved the needle (Jon Moxley) One of it's Founders (Cody) The Brother of one of its founders (Dustin)
A dude that was really tight with one of its founders in developmental (Shawn Spears) A dude that has Wrestled in nearly every top level promotion on the planet (Chris Jericho) A dude that was really tight with Le Champion and handpicked to be the enforcer of his first ever stable (Jake Hager) A dude that worked with both one of the founders, Le Champion and is, to put it in his accent, Propa Belta (PAC)
Trent and Judas Devlin (Luchasaurus) were in WWE also, but those dudes are probably going to be Tag Dudes for quite a while in AEW.
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Post by Jeff Mangum PI on Oct 15, 2019 14:18:36 GMT -5
I think he lasted exactly as long as Antonio Brown did on the Raiders.
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