Eric Bischoff Describes The Only Way A WWE Vs. AEW Match Could Happen

Since AEW was formed, we have already seen the opening of the “forbidden door”, with AEW stars appearing in NJPW and vice versa.

We have also seen a working relationship formed between AEW and IMPACT Wrestling, with AEW Champion Kenny Omega recently winning the IMPACT Wrestling Championship as part of his belt collector gimmick.

But will we ever see some kind of relationship between AEW and WWE? At the moment it seems incredibly unlikely, especially while Vince McMahon is in charge of WWE.

However, speaking on Foundation Radio, former WWE Executive Producer Eric Bischoff has explained how it would need to go down if it ever was to happen.

“I know that everybody wants to talk about what was the Wednesday Night Wars, and comparing AEW to WWE, and here’s what has to happen for that to be viable, the AEW/WWE approach, AEW’s gotta go head-to-head. There’s gotta be a fight. There has to be a battle. Going back to storytelling, what are the stakes? In a case where you’re laying down an AEW vs. WWE match, champion vs. champion, okay that sounds really cool if you’re a cosplay wrestling journalist and a fan of those people. But it only works if there’s stakes. And the only stakes that matter are who turns out the biggest audience. That’s a fight that people will get behind. That’s a fight that people want to be a part of. That’s what happened during the Monday Night Wars. Why did it work? Because it was real, and because people were invested. They were invested in the characters, they were invested in the fight between the two companies. That actually was more important to them, whether they knew it or not, from a storytelling perspective, the battle between WCW and WWE was a more interesting story than the battle between the two people in the ring. That’s why it worked. So until AEW gets to the point where they’re delivering a similar-sized audience and start trying to take some real estate…it’s a war. If you want a war, you gotta have a freaking war. You can’t just, you gotta do it. AEW needs to take away some WWE real estate. And when that starts happening, people will believe the war. And then they’ll be invested. But otherwise it’s just cosplay.”

With neither promotion wanting to lose to the other, making a match would be close to impossible in the current wrestling climate.

Oh well, we’ll just keep on fantasy booking.

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