Eric Bischoff Blasts Booking Of AEW All In
Eric Bischoff does not think MJF should be on the All In pre-show.
Aug 15, 2023
AEW's All In is set to take place at Wembley Stadium in London, England on August 27, but the show's card has caused much debate on social media. Many fans have accused AEW of rushing to scramble matches together at the last minute, or foreshadowing multi-person matches featuring some of the biggest names on the roster, wrestlers most would expect to instead have featured singles matches.
Eric Bischoff has weighed in with a criticism of his own - although his discontent centres around a different aspect of the card: the pre-show ROH World Tag Team Championship match between Aussie Open and the team of MJF and Adam Cole. The challengers are set to pull double duty at All In, also main-eventing against one another for MJF's AEW World Championship. On a recent episode of his Strictly Business podcast, Bischoff stated:
"If I was sitting at a table and somebody said, 'Hey, I've got an idea, let's put, arguably, two of the biggest names on our roster [...] maybe one of the best storylines going, and let's have it on the pre-game show because it's Ring of Honor?' First of all, nobody f*****g cares about Ring of Honor.
"Why would you dilute your event and two of your, at least from my perspective, valuable pieces of talent [...] on the pre-game show? I think the world of MJF. I think he's probably the most important talent on that show, and I think he's the most important part of the future of AEW [...] Who cares [that he's also in the main event]? He's in the pre-game show. That's the silliest damn thing I've ever heard."
Other matches announced for AEW All In include FTR vs. The Young Bucks III, and Sting & Darby Allin vs. Swerve Strickland & AR Fox.
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