Toni Storm retained her AEW Ladies’s World Championship in opposition to STARDOM’s Mina Shirakawa at Forbidden Door this previous Sunday after she defeated the present Artist of Stardom Champion in simply over ten minutes. Nevertheless, regardless of the shut near-falls and Storm impressing with the presentation of her character, former WCW author Eric Bischoff thought the match was an entire catastrophe.
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On his podcast “83 Weeks,” he defined that he left to cook dinner himself dinner after watching 90 seconds of the competition however did give Storm credit score for her character work. He additionally acknowledged that AEW is “overexposing” her in the meanwhile.
“I obtained a few minute-and-a-half in and stated, ‘screw it’ I will go cook dinner a steak. I already had the grill heated so it wasn’t that large a deal. However as quickly as that match began, I watched it for a couple of minutes, it was so unhealthy and that is the stuff when Tony says, ‘Oh, we have now one of the best girls’s division, oh my god’ after which we see that,” stated Bischoff. “She mustn’t have been in that match, she’s not prepared. She’s not prepared for prime time, her character is freaking superior … they’re overexposing her and so they’re overhyping her and try to persuade folks she’s one thing she’s not, and in the end that is going to come back again on her.”
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Bischoff defined that he could not topic himself to watching the match between Storm and Shirakawa because of the size of the pay-per-view, whereas additionally mentioning how glad he was that he selected to eat his steak as an alternative.
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