Eric Bischoff: CM Punk Has Came In And Sh*t The Bed In AEW

Eric Bischoff's war of words with All Elite Wrestling continued on the latest episode of the 83 weeks podcast. Instead of targeting Tony Khan, though, Bischoff turned his attention to CM Punk this week. 

Following his signing with AEW, CM Punk said him, Bryan Danielson and Adam Cole joining the company was bigger than The Outsiders signing with WCW back in 1996. 

Speaking on the 83 weeks podcast, Bischoff criticised Punk and claimed The Second City Saviour has "sh*t the bed" since joining AEW.

"Punk hasn't delivered. Punk was the guy that came out and his first comments were 'The addition of this talent was more significant than Scott Hall and Kevin Nash,' constantly making references to WCW because they want to be the company that WCW was back in the mid-90s. There's these constant references to WCW. When Scott Hall and Kevin Nash came in, we took off. Punk, you came in and you sh*t the bed, in terms of ratings. It ain't there and there's nothing in reality to suggest otherwise. You just need to be careful about what you say until you're delivering. That comment that Punk made about these guys being more significant than Hall and Nash in 96 and then two weeks after Punk made his big arrival the ratings dropped by 40-50 percent," Bischoff began.

"This is what lit my fuse, I wasn't going to comment on any of this until Punk came out and said 'It's going to take five years for the effect of this talent to really show up significantly in the ratings,' are you f*cking kidding me? Does anybody other than an uninformed wrestling fan who loves CM Punk, is anybody going to believe that nonsense? It's going to take five years? Dude, you're going to be getting AARP mail, because it happens soon as you start getting close to 50 they start pounding you with this sh*t. I let that one go but then to come out a couple of weeks later, after in my opinion he should be embarrassed, and for the ratings to take the dive the way they did after his debut, suggests to me that he ain't as hot as he's trying to make people think he is. If he was, the numbers would be much bigger."

Bischoff continued to criticise AEW President Tony Khan elsewhere on 83 Weeks and he claimed Khan was manipulating data to make it seem like AEW are competing with WWE.

H/T to Wrestling Inc.