Final week, All Elite Wrestling confirmed that its largest pay-per-view occasion – All In – can be transferring away from worldwide waters and towards the US, particularly Globe Life Discipline in Arlington, Texas. Former WCW President Eric Bischoff has since weighed in on this information, citing it as a attainable transfer, in his opinion, to enchantment to potential new suitors or Warner Bros. Discovery, who’re at the moment in media rights negotiations with AEW.
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“Type of attention-grabbing that all these huge Australia and stadium reveals, all this nice information main into tv renegotiations or hopefully a brand new residence for AEW in distinction to really what is going on on,” Bischoff mentioned on the “83 Weeks” podcast. “Attendance is in the bathroom. It has been trending in that course for fairly a while. Scores are in the bathroom and have been trending that approach for the final two-and-a-half, three years so there is not any new excellent news by way of actuality.”
“There’s a number of excellent news by way of notion, so we’ll simply see if notion does actually turn out to be actuality or if it is simply a whole lot of Dixie-Khan hype,” Bischoff added, referring to former TNA Wrestling President Dixie Carter.
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In accordance with Bischoff, the back-to-back successes of AEW All In at Wembley Stadium, ticket gross sales and attendance-wise, is an anomaly within the grand scheme of AEW’s enterprise operations, as the UK market is significantly completely different than that of the US. As such, Bischoff is extremely uncertain that AEW can fill a United States-based stadium fully, and even halfly, particularly when he believes the corporate’s weekly viewership to be dying out.
“They’re drawing 2,500 individuals to their stay A-show [of AEW Dynamite]. The place’s the connective tissue with actuality that might make any person assume that right here in the US, not within the UK, it is an outlier, [that AEW can fill a stadium]?'” Bischoff requested.
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