Eric Bischoff reviewed AEW Collision on the latest “83 Weeks” podcast. Bischoff talked about the announce team of Kevin Kelly and Nigel McGuinness:
“I thought it was the freshest, most significant improvement in any one element of an overall production of than anything that I’ve seen in the last 10 years. It was that good and this is their first time out. I know they both respectively have had plenty of experience doing this, but together on this show, a new show, pressure, live, first time really working together I think. I don’t know. Correct me if I’m wrong when I’m wrong. Here’s what I thought. I can’t wait to hear them a month from now because if they were that good Saturday night, once they get their groove and their rhythm together after doing it a few times. point me to another, potentially, not there yet, point me to a better color and play-by-play team and I’ll tell you that you’re wrong.”
Bischoff’s thoughts on how AEW should use Jim Ross:
“Jim Ross is the Hulk Hogan of announcers, and like Hulk Hogan, if you overexpose him and have him out there in every match, you’re not getting the maximum value. The maximum value is to make him feel special, because if Jim Ross is special, so is the match that’s going on in the main event. That’s another way you manage and you can control the emotion of how people feel about something is by the elements that you bring together at a specific time. Use Jim Ross in that Hulk Hogan of announcers vibe. Put him in there on Saturday night, big fight, and by the way, if It’s not a big main event, because you can’t deliver this level of main event every single week. It’s not mathematically possible. Let him lay out. Only bring him in for the big ones on Saturday night. On pay-per-views. That’s how you maximize Jim Ross, not by dragging him out on Friday nights to call things that don’t really matter and nobody’s watching anyway.
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