{"id":131417,"date":"2021-11-30T21:07:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T03:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/recovery\/?p=131417"},"modified":"2022-01-15T16:33:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T22:33:10","slug":"eric-bischoff-talks-wwe-changes-relationship-with-tony-khan-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/11\/30\/eric-bischoff-talks-wwe-changes-relationship-with-tony-khan-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Bischoff talks WWE changes, relationship with Tony Khan, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1375503810\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Eric Bischoff has some suggestions and insight as to what needs to change in WWE. In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/wwe\/news\/eric-bischoff-says-wwe-should-de-sanitize-their-product-it-doesnt-even-feel-live-anymore\/\">CBS Sports&#8217; Shakiel Mahjouri<\/a>, Bischoff discussed his thoughts as to what could improve the WWE product and it starts with storytelling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would be story structure,&#8221; Bischoff said of the start of a WWE improvement plan. &#8220;It would be taking a more pragmatic approach to story structure. Actually, discipline would be a better word than pragmatic. It would be first recognizing that a good story has to have structure. It would be no different than shooting a movie that doesn&#8217;t have a script blocked out and not really knowing what the end of the movie is. You couldn&#8217;t be in the movie business that way. You couldn&#8217;t produce television shows that way. You can&#8217;t even write a book that way. I think with WWE because of the sheer volume of products that they produce globally every week, it only creates a more significant need for a more disciplined and well-thought-out story structure. That&#8217;s part of the flaw with WWE creative, at least in my opinion, is that there&#8217;s such a sameness to everything. OK, one show is red and one show is blue, and there are different names on the roster, but the look and feel, the story-telling technique, or lack thereof, everything feels so familiar and has felt so familiar for so long. I think it would need to be de-sanitized. The WWE is such a perfectly executed live production that it doesn&#8217;t even feel live anymore. It feels like you&#8217;re watching a feature film. I think with wrestling because of what it is, an arena-based event, you want the viewers at home to feel like their part of that event. Sometimes overproducing that show can take that away from the home viewer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, Bischoff also commented on his relationship with Tony Khan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/10\/19\/eric-bischoff-comments-on-recent-tony-khan-demeanor\/\">amid a back and forth social media battle<\/a>regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/10\/20\/tony-khan-addresses-recent-criticism-from-eric-bischoff\/\">ratings and the war between AEW and WWE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were friendly and cordial,&#8221; Bischoff said. &#8220;Mutual respect there. All that good stuff. It wasn&#8217;t until recently, I was asked a question and I responded and it caused, I&#8217;m guessing, hard feelings from Tony. I tried to call Tony and he didn&#8217;t call me back. Someone told me, who Tony was complaining to, about how upset he was about the things that I said. He said, &#8216;Hey, why don&#8217;t you give Tony a call?&#8217; I said, &#8216;Sure! I&#8217;m not mad at Tony.&#8217; I don&#8217;t carry grudges. It doesn&#8217;t change the way I feel about Tony, I just had to express my opinion and react to something Tony actually said that involved me and I took as being disrespectful of my accomplishments and even more disrespectful, and quite frankly, ignorant, with relation to the comment he made about Ted Turner. That&#8217;s what I reacted to. But I wasn&#8217;t angry with Tony. When my friend said to give him a call, I thought, &#8216;alright, I&#8217;ll give him a call.&#8217; I left a message and I haven&#8217;t heard back so, evidently, he&#8217;s a little pissed off. But that&#8217;s OK.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, Bischoff appeared for AEW in May of this year to host an Inner Circle party. 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