Eric Bischoff Talks About Recent AEW Appearance, Praises MJF

During the latest 83 Weeks podcast, Eric Bischoff spoke about the Town Hall segment on AEW Dynamite that he appeared on, and explained that he had approached Chris Jericho with a request to change some of the verbiage of what he was supposed to ask.

"I took what had been prepared for me in the notes [and] I went, ‘Oh yeah. But if I changed it up this way, it won’t change the meaning of anything. It does the exact same thing. It just kind of makes it feel more tuned-in politically, based on the theme of that segment.’ So I went to Chris and I said, ‘hey, Chris, I got an idea.’ He goes, ‘Yeah, go ahead. That’s what you’re here for. Make it your own.’ I went ‘wow, that’s fucking cool.’ That’s the way I like to work."

He went on to praise MJF for adapting to the change so fluidly.

"It wasn’t until last night when I watched it, did I realize that I smartened up Chris, but I didn’t smarten up MJF. He had no idea that question was coming the way I posed it. He just hit that thing like a two-hundred pound softball, just splattered it, didn’t miss a beat… Everybody knows he’s a very talented guy and certainly he knows it. But I was so impressed with the way he didn’t even blink when I changed up the dialogue that he was expecting. That was really cool."