The idea of a wrestling off-season is a polarizing topic amongst wrestling fans, with many people seeing both the pros and cons of the idea.
Speaking on his 83 Weeks podcast, Eric Bischoff admitted that he falls into the camp that believes that there should not be an off-season in wrestling. Bischoff said:
“First of all, I wouldn’t vote for an offseason. One of the reasons that wrestling works as consistently as it has since the beginning of television time is because it’s 52 weeks a year and it tours. If you take 52 weeks out of the equation and now you take touring out of the equation, you’re going to lose 60% of your audience over the course of five or six years.”
Bischoff then went on to explain how he believes that an off-season would cause some wrestlers to lose their connection with the audience, saying:
“Yeah, but you lose your connection to the audience. Wrestling, and here’s the mistake that a lot of television executives make, is they don’t understand the audience. The wrestling audience becomes so familiar with these characters. They identify with them. They live vicariously through them. They’re kind of, in their own entertainment way, addicted to them. If you take them off the air for three, four, or five months, they find other shit to do and other things to be interested in. The secret sauce to professional wrestling is that it’s 52 weeks a year. If you go down to 26 and you have to start your season over again and you’ve lost that daily, weekly connection to your audience, and six months later you’re going to come back with a new season, good freaking luck.”
Bischoff currently makes sporadic appearances in AEW after leaving WWE in 2019.
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