Eric Bischoff Defends WWE’s Decision to Ask New Day to Renegotiate 

On the latest episode of 83 Weeks, Eric Bischoff talked about the WWE departure of The New Day and more. You can check out some highlights below:

Eric Bischoff on Whether He Was Surprised by WWE Releasing The New Day:

“Nope. For all the reasons you just stated. I agree with everything that you just said, which is probably the reason why their time was essentially up. It had played itself out.”

On TKO understanding WWE More:

“So if you’re going to commit to a tag team now, you’re committing to twice the labor costs for talent just to have a tag team division. From a mathematical point of view, it doesn’t work. Now, you can argue creatively that there’s something special about tag teams that still satisfies a certain niche in the audience. I’ll buy it. I probably not only buy it, would support that agree with it, but is it a big enough part of the audience to justify it? What happens? You know, if you just run the math, what happens if it goes away and maybe 3% of the audience, 1% of the audience, whatever the percentage is, it’ll be minimal because, ah, they don’t have tag team wrestling anymore. I’m not going to watch.  I don’t think 1% would do that, but whatever, let’s say 1% is it worth it? Probably to eliminate tag teams, because financially, it does not make sense. And the more TKO looks at the WWE as a property, the more you’re going to see those kinds of changes.”

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