Eric Bischoff believes AEW Shockwave will not air on Fox News

Eric Bischoff believes AEW Shockwave will not air on Fox News

WWE Hall of Famer and former WCW President Eric Bischoff spoke on an episode of his 83 Weeks podcast, where he addressed a number of topics including the possibility of AEW Shockwave landing on FOX.

“It’s not going to air on TV. This is fiction. Look, the skew is – I understand. He’s excited. He’s there to promote his company. He just got a big contract renewal, and he’s doing what he has to do and promoting the company he works for,” Bischoff said. And I like that I think he went a little further in suggesting – and he actually suggested that – that Fox Network didn’t renew SmackDown, which brought in about 2.5 million, 2.3 million viewers a week, and they would replace them with an AEW product that couldn’t find 600 or 700,000 viewers a week. And in the frenzy, we were looking at 300 or 400,000 a week. Does anyone in their right mind think that FOX is going to say, “Well, we couldn’t make SmackDown work with two and a half million viewers.” Man, this show Rampage or Collision, okay! And this is the new thing they’re coming out with, let’s do it. I understand why Swerve did it. He’s emotional. He’s doing what he has to do. I don’t see it That, no. Believing it can happen is a reflection of a lack of information and knowledge, also known as ignorance.

On any night it can be broadcast:

“So Monday will be over by default. Tuesday is NXT on the CW, which is kind of weird. They have Wednesday, and Thursday I think that’s a possibility. I don’t see Friday for a lot of reasons.”

You can check out the full podcast in the video below.

(H/T to 411Mania.com for transcribing the above quotes)

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