Eric Bischoff is a big fan of the presentation of AEW Saturday Collision.
Eric Bischoff is no stranger to producing professional wrestling television on TNT. In the '90s, WCW Monday Nitro was must-see TV. In 2023, AEW recently launched Saturday Collision every Saturday night on TNT. The show has a presentation unique from AEW's Wednesday night offering, Dynamite, and the former president of WCW is a big fan of what he saw on the debut episode of Collision on June 17, 2023.
Eric Bischoff believes that whatever formula and brain trust Tony Khan used to put together the debut episode of Saturday Collision should be kept on in the weeks and months ahead.
“I was more than pleasantly surprised, borderline shocked at how tight the show was formatted, how well the show was formatted. The placement of certain segments, I thought was really really good," Eric Bischoff said on a recent Strictly Business podcast episode. "There was just a lot to like about that show, and I made the comment when I got done watching the show, I said ‘There’s no way Tony Khan wrote that show.’ We’ve seen Tony Khan’s product now, in terms of creative, for about four years. This was completely different in terms of the way the show was formatted and produced, and it was excellent. I don’t know who was involved, I clearly don’t but whoever was working with Tony, he was clearly influenced by whoever he was collaborating with. My advice to Tony Khan is to never let any of those people out of your sight. Don’t ever sit down and format a show or write a show without those same people in the room because that combination of people that were there to help Tony, really helped him a lot. I would keep doing what you did, Tony, on Collision. Whatever that formula was, whatever that collaboration was, keep doing that.”
One of the things that occurred on the first episode of AEW Saturday Collision was CM Punk referencing Warner Bros. Discovery executive David Zaslav in his promo. Tony Khan has since revealed that he intended for that portion of CM Punk's promo to be a callback to WCW TV, where wrestlers would reference someone like Ted Turner. Read more here.
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