Whereas the promotion continues holding and scheduling main reveals, sure metrics inside AEW have usually declined during the last 12 months, reminiscent of reside occasion attendance and tv scores. Eric Bischoff sees this as a inventive drawback for the corporate and has lengthy known as for Tony Khan to place another person accountable for reserving. Talking on a current episode of “83 Weeks,” Bischoff had a suggestion in thoughts.
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“It is only a matter of time earlier than Tony goes to should make a change,” Bischoff mentioned. “He is acquired limitless monetary assets. That is a giant a part of it. However he is acquired the human assets proper there underneath his nostril — Jen Pepperman.”
Bischoff said that he was in WWE with Pepperman for a couple of months and, although they did not work in-depth collectively, he did get to know her. The 2 had discussions about storytelling, and Bischoff walked away from these conversations with confidence in Pepperman’s skills to inform an absorbing story in wrestling.
A former author in TV and WWE, Pepperman was introduced into AEW earlier this 12 months, reportedly on account of her shut working relationship with Mercedes Mone. Bischoff listened to Pepperman on a current version of “AEW Unrestricted,” and the previous WCW government mentioned it made him notice Pepperman has an excellent stronger grasp on story construction than he beforehand believed.
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Eric Bischoff Believes Jen Pepperman May Save AEW
Together with their scores and attendance struggles, there may be one other hazard that could be mendacity in look forward to AEW. There’s a very actual probability that Warner Bros Discovery, proprietor of TBS and TNT and enterprise accomplice to AEW, could possibly be offered within the close to future, as the corporate has a large quantity of debt. Even when WBD presents AEW a media rights deal, Bischoff would not consider that ensures the success of the promotion long-term.
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“If he will get that renewal, and it is the identical product that continues to lose [its] viewers, it is only a matter of time,” Bischoff continued. “He is acquired Jen. If I used to be Tony, I might sit down with Jen Pepperman at the moment, earlier than the solar goes down, and say, ‘Jen, I need you to construct the brand new AEW inventive system.”
Proper now, Pepperman performs a task on the inventive staff however Khan stays in cost. Bischoff then started talking on to Khan, telling the AEW CEO to give attention to the enterprise side of the corporate, as that’s the place his household has had success up to now.
“Give attention to the stuff you do nicely, Tony,” Bischoff mentioned. “Run within the different route from issues that you’re not good at, that you do not have expertise in, that you do not have an intuition for. It is okay. It would not make you a foul particular person.”
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