{"id":144731,"date":"2022-08-17T20:24:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T01:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=144731"},"modified":"2022-08-17T20:25:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T01:25:40","slug":"aew-not-true-competition-to-wwe-says-eric-bischoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/08\/17\/aew-not-true-competition-to-wwe-says-eric-bischoff\/","title":{"rendered":"AEW not true competition to WWE says Eric Bischoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-4238615169\" 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 says that AEW is not anywhere close to being a true competitor for WWE.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with CBS Sports, Bischoff spoke on the AEW and WWE battle, saying that AEW has not taken market share or revenue from WWE and therefore is not viable competition.<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Tony Khan refers to WWE not as WWE, but as &#8216;the competition.&#8217; Tony. Wake the F up,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2so4iw9WR2Y\">Bischoff said<\/a>. &#8220;You are not competition. You have not taken any market share. Your audience is not growing on television. There is not even a comparison from a financial perspective in terms of revenue-generating conversation. So exactly how are you competitive if you&#8217;re not taking market share and you&#8217;re not even in the same conversation from a revenue point of view as a business? That&#8217;s the beginning and the end of the big competition conversation. You&#8217;re either taking market share or you&#8217;re not. You&#8217;re either equal to or closing in on your competitor&#8217;s revenue. And they&#8217;re not. They&#8217;re not even close.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bischoff said he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/08\/17\/eric-bischoff-talks-new-wwe-creative-direction\/\">enthusiastic about WWE&#8217;s creative direction<\/a> under WWE and said the show has more of a gritty, live feel to it.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Bischoff is a WWE Hall of Famer and former Executive Director of Smackdown. He is most known for his time as the President of WCW during the Attitude Era.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH-UP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/08\/17\/nxt-2-0-heatwave-special-jolts-viewership\/\">NXT 2.0 Heatwave special jolts viewership<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-506045924\"><div id=\"pwtor-1992159757\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Eric Bischoff says that AEW is not anywhere close to being a true competitor for WWE. In an interview with CBS Sports, Bischoff spoke on the AEW and WWE battle, saying that AEW has not <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/08\/17\/aew-not-true-competition-to-wwe-says-eric-bischoff\/\" title=\"AEW not true competition to WWE says Eric Bischoff\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":73662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6163,2,3],"tags":[6121,150,71],"class_list":["post-144731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew-news","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe","tag-aew","tag-eric-bischoff","tag-wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2019\/01\/IMG_1862.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144733,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144731\/revisions\/144733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}