Update on AJ Styles, Eric Bischoff on the possibility of AEW landing new show on Fox
– Fightful reports WWE sources claim AJ Styles is legitimately injured.
There was a planned injury angle for AJ on the show Friday. However, WWE sources say AJ was actually injured during a spot gone wrong. “The flip where he sold the knee was to be a work. The move where he landed on the knee was legit”
– Eric Bischoff on the possibility of AEW landing Shockwave on FOX:
“It’s not going to land on broadcast television. That’s a fantasy. Look, Swerve is — I understand. He’s excited. He’s out there promoting his company. He just got a big contract renewal, he’s doing what he should do and promoting the company he works for. And I admire that. I think he got a little ahead of his skis by suggesting — and he did suggest it — that Fox Network didn’t renew SmackDown, that delivered about two and a half million, 2.3 million viewers a week, and they’re going to replace it with an AEW product that can’t find 600 or 700,000 viewers a week. And Rampage and Collision, we were looking at 300 or 400,000 per week.
“Does anybody in their right f**king mind think that FOX Network is going to go, ‘Well, we couldn’t make SmackDown work with two and a half million viewers. But man, that Rampage or that Collision show, hmm! And this new one they’re coming out with, let’s do that.’ I understand why Swerve did it. He got excited, he’s emotional. He’s doing what he should do. But that was a bad take. I don’t see it, no. And to think that it could happen is a reflection of lack of information and knowledge, aka ignorance.”