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Eric Bischoff isn’t buying into the idea that WWE deliberately scheduled Saturday Night’s Main Event to go head-to-head with AEW All In: Texas on July 12, 2025—but he still finds the whole situation hilarious.
On his 83 Weeks podcast, Bischoff reacted to WWE airing a special on Peacock at the same time as AEW’s event at Globe Life Field, and while he admitted it’s a “ballsy move,” he doesn’t believe it was done with bad intentions.
“Here’s what’s hard for me to believe,” Bischoff said. “I’m not saying I don’t—I’m—the door is open for me. But this kind of move, if indeed it was designed intentionally and not just a manifestation of weeks’ worth of programming and planning and ad sales influences and sports and blah blah blah, there’s a million things that go into programming a schedule—on the surface, I’m laughing my ass off.”
Bischoff made it clear that he doesn’t see WWE or NBC/Peacock making this decision purely to hurt AEW. Instead, he thinks it’s simply a matter of scheduling.
“I just—I don’t see them taking it,” he added. “I don’t see them—them being NBC or WWE—putting themselves at any kind of legal exposure for predatory practices, because that’s just fun in a way. AEW financially is not a threat to anybody or anything. They’re operating in their own universe and it’s fulfilling the owner’s goals, and it really doesn’t have anything to do with WWE—except for some talent transitions from time to time, but there’s even less of those now.”
With WWE and AEW continuing to book major shows at the same time, some fans see this as a throwback to the old Monday Night Wars—but Bischoff thinks people are reading too much into it.
“I think it was more than likely because they’re risk-averse—NBC and TKO don’t want to end up in court over something like this,” he explained. “It’s not worth it. There’s no upside to it. I think it’s just probably a matter of weeks and months’ worth of scheduling and planning and going, ‘Okay, we need one this quarter, where’s the best place for it?’ And oh, by the way, look what else is going on. That’s my guess.”
Bischoff also shut down any comparisons to Jim Crockett Promotions, saying he doesn’t believe WWE intentionally scheduled this event to hurt AEW.
“I don’t think it was an intentional Crockett-type move as you pointed out. I don’t think it was malicious,” he said.
Eric Bischoff might be laughing this one off, but the WWE vs. AEW debate isn’t slowing down anytime soon. Whether it’s just scheduling or something more strategic, fans are locked in for another head-to-head showdown in July 2025. With both companies stacking their cards, it’s shaping up to be a night where fans have to pick a side—or find a way to watch both.
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January 22, 2025 11:09 am
