WWE Hall of Famer and former WCW President Eric Bischoff took on an episode of his 83 Weeks podcast, where he talked about a number of topics including the possibility of AEW landing Shockwave on FOX.
Bischoff said, “It’s not going to land on broadcast television. That’s a fantasy. Look, Swerve is — I understand. He’s excited. He’s out there promoting his company. He just got a big contract renewal, he’s doing what he should do and promoting the company he works for. And I admire that. I think he got a little ahead of his skis by suggesting — and he did suggest it — that Fox Network didn’t renew SmackDown, that delivered about two and a half million, 2.3 million viewers a week, and they’re going to replace it with an AEW product that can’t find 600 or 700,000 viewers a week. And Rampage and Collision, we were looking at 300 or 400,000 per week. Does anybody in their right f***ing mind think that FOX Network is going to go, ‘Well, we couldn’t make SmackDown work with two and a half million viewers. But man, that Rampage or that Collision show, hmm! And this new one they’re coming out with, let’s do that.’ I understand why Swerve did it. He got excited, he’s emotional. He’s doing what he should do. But that was a bad take. I don’t see it, no. And to think that it could happen is a reflection of lack of information and knowledge, aka ignorance.”
On what night it could air:
“So Monday’s out by default. Tuesday is NXT on CW Network, that’s kind of out. They’ve got Wednesday, and Thursday I guess is a possibility. I don’t see Friday for a lot of reasons.”
You can check out the complete podcast in the video below.
(H/T to 411Mania.com for transcribing the above quotes)
