Why Eric Bischoff thinks WWEs discipline has separated them from AEW

Eric Bischoff made his name creating a WCW product that was by design as different as possible from what WWE was producing in the mid-to-late ’90s.Led by the nWo, it produced a period of unprecedented success for the company as WCW beat WWE for 83 straight weeks in the ratings and forced WWE to usher in its Attitude Era during a game-changing time in the business.When asked if it’s possible to go after WWE in the same manner today by producing a product with a starkly different approach, Bischoff isn’t ruling it out but admits the task is much more daunting than it was even a few years ago with where WWE creative is right now under Triple H.“It’s not as easy now, but it’s still very possible,” Bischoff said during a recent Zoom interview.“The truth is, if you would have asked me that question in 2018 or through 2019 I would have laughed and said, ‘Oh, hell yeah, here’s my list, right? Watch this.’ But WWE now, they’ve got very, very disciplined, nuanced stories.

The discipline that I see in their storytelling is pretty amazing, from week to week.Obviously, from a production point of view, yeah, it’s gonna make it harder.“But oh yeah, there are ways, and that’s where the art comes in.

Otherwise, it’s a science.You just put things together and watch it work, the art comes in and again, finding out what can I do differently that the audience is going to embrace as opposed to reject.”Doing so means taking some risks.“Part of it is trial and error.

You have to be willing to fail,” Bischoff said.“You know, if you’re afraid to try anything new, then you’re just going to be doing the same things you’ve been doing.

You got to like the risk a little bit and try things.That’s what Nitro did.

We just tried things.We tried things that nobody ever done.”The 69-year-old Bischoff, who will be the executive producer of MLW’s “One Shot” show from Queens’ Melrose Ballroom on Dec.

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