Eric Bischoff is coming to MLW for an event in New York City this December.
Touting that he will have creative control for one night only, MLW has announced Bischoff for their One-Shot show in Queens on Thursday, December 5. MLW is hyping that this is Bischoff promoting a show in “enemy territory” after going against the Northeast-based WWE while leading WCW during the Monday Night Wars.
The news was made official after actor/wrestler Paul Walter Hauser invited Bischoff to MLW during an appearance on his Wise Choices podcast.
“Bischoff will have total control over MLW for one night only. From matchmaking to the TV trucks, Bischoff will oversee the event in his vision,” the promotion wrote. “The unique opportunity for Bischoff to call the shots came about during a recent episode of Bischoff’s YouTube show, Wise Choices, where he was joined by MLW’s Paul Walter Hauser. When asked what he would do if he had one more chance to run a wrestling show his way, Hauser seized the moment, calling MLW owner Court Bauer live on the air to pitch the concept. Bauer gave an enthusiastic YES.”
One-Shot 2024 is being held at the Melrose Ballroom on December 5 and will air live for free on MLW’s YouTube channel. No matches have been announced for the show yet.
This will be Bischoff’s first-ever appearance for MLW. He previously had a show on the MLW Radio network.
Ric Flair has apologized for his comments about a “three-headed monster” having killed WCW.
On Monday, Flair posted to social media that Eric Bischoff, Vince Russo, and Jim Herd were responsible for the death of the company. Flair wrote that it was, “the people in charge that created dysfunction, animosity, and tried to divide and conquer by lying to everyone and involving themselves in the promotion which was the ultimate failure!”
On Wednesday morning, Flair issued an apology to Bischoff, Russo, and Herd.
Flair wrote:
“A Very Important Person In My Life Reminded Me Yesterday That Twitter Is The Weakest Form Of Communication. I Want To Take This Opportunity To Apologize To Jim Herd, @EBischoff, And @THEVinceRusso Because I Really Don’t Know. I Unfairly Judged You Without Knowing The Inner Workings And Behind The Scenes Of The Business On The Corporate End With People You Had To Report To And Work With. I Wish On A Personal Note That All 3 Of Us Could Have Worked Together And Had Better Relationships! For Vince Calling Me The GOAT, I Appreciate That & You Did Help My Son To Pursue His Dream In Wrestling. I Am Going To Do Eric Bischoff’s Podcast, But It Won’t Be To Bury Anybody. It’s To Discuss Our Differences! @TheRock Is Making A Movie On My Life, And I’m In A Great Place! I Hope This Can All Be Put Behind Us!”
A Very Important Person In My Life Reminded Me Yesterday That Twitter Is The Weakest Form Of Communication. I Want To Take This Opportunity To Apologize To Jim Herd, @EBischoff, And @THEVinceRusso Because I Really Don’t Know. I Unfairly Judged You Without Knowing The Inner… pic.twitter.com/sOn9wltZU6
“I’m Happy To See The Response To My Tweet. I Just Spoke To @EBischoff Personally And He’s At Peace, @THEVinceRusso Is At Peace, And Hopefully So Is Jim Herd. I Won’t Be Appearing On Eric’s Podcast Tomorrow As A Result Of Our Conversation, But I Wish Him The Best Of Luck & I’m Sure He’ll Knock It Out Of The Park!”
I’m Happy To See The Response To My Tweet. I Just Spoke To @EBischoff Personally And He’s At Peace, @THEVinceRusso Is At Peace, And Hopefully So Is Jim Herd. I Won’t Be Appearing On Eric’s Podcast Tomorrow As A Result Of Our Conversation, But I Wish Him The Best Of Luck & I’m… pic.twitter.com/sd86rOmzvL
Bischoff addressed Flair’s initial comments during a live episode of his 83 Weeks podcast that streamed immediately following the airing of “Who Killed WCW?” episode two last night. He responded that while Flair might know more than anyone else about what goes on inside the ring, he doesn’t have experience on the business side of wrestling.
Bischoff said:
“I’m sure Ric has his opinions, and they’re real to Ric in his mind and he still feels strongly about it, obviously, but it doesn’t mean he’s right. It’s just his opinion. It would be like me saying well wait, I’ve produced over 5000 hours of prime-time television, I should be able to wrestle a 20-minute match, I should be able to critique Ric Flair’s matches.”
Flair and Russo had gone back and forth on X following Flair’s initial comments on Monday as well.
“Looks like The Nature Boy is Hitting that RUM CANDY Again!!!” Russo wrote. “Thanks for Giving me that Much Credit. For a Writer to take down a Multi-Million Dollar Company through Words on a Page? I guess I really was Special. Not my fault you weren’t in the Doc, Rick. Sorry, man. I hope you don’t think my excessive use of your son David, and the Rest of Your Family for that Matter—who were all GREAT BY THE WAY—wasn’t the Knife that drew the Company’s Last Blood. Yeah—I failed at Laying Low too.”
Flair responded to Russo:
“Wow, Glad You Got Back To Me @THEVinceRusso!!! Whatever Candy I’m Eating At Least I Can Afford To Eat Which I’m Not Sure You Can. I Would Give You $20k, @EBischoff $20k, And Jim Herd $20k A Piece Wired In Advance To Show Up In Tampa Or Atlanta. I’ll Rent The Venue In Tampa Or Atlanta, It Will Sell Out For Sure, So We Can Hash This Out. And I Guarantee That I Can Probably Sell This To A PPV Status Because I’m Ric Flair And You’re Not. Story Of My Life!”
Wow, Glad You Got Back To Me @THEVinceRusso!!! Whatever Candy I’m Eating At Least I Can Afford To Eat Which I’m Not Sure You Can. I Would Give You $20k, @EBischoff $20k, And Jim Herd $20k A Piece Wired In Advance To Show Up In Tampa Or Atlanta. I’ll Rent The Venue In Tampa Or…
Russo responded to Flair’s apology on Wednesday. He wrote: “Life is way too short to hold any Grievances, Ric. Honestly, at this Point I don’t have any animosity towards anybody and I am at Total Peace. I appreciate your words this morning more than you will ever know. God Bless You, Sir.”
The history of WCW, the Monday Night Wars which brought pro wrestling to a popularity in many ways never seen before, and the Eric Bischoff reign and legacy in the business is back in the news with the release of Bischoff’s autobiography a few weeks ago.
Due to the strong promotion, the book looks to be the best selling WWE book since Ric Flair’s book in 2004. The No. 16 opening on the New York Times best seller list is probably more impressive than it sounds. It got off to a better start than the disappointing Eddie Guerrero and Shawn Michaels’ books, which were two major stars, and Guerrero’s came out shortly after his death. Most best sellers are available everywhere. I know in this market, almost none of the bookstores were even carrying the book and after one major store after another didn’t have it, I ended up having to order it. All the great TV promotion done isn’t going to be of a lot of benefit if stores aren’t carrying it.
AEW & ROH head Tony Khan has made his thoughts publicly known about Jinder Mahal receiving a WWE World Heavyweight title match against Seth Rollins on next week’s Raw.
Khan took to X Tuesday to air some frustrations about what he called a “double standard” for the reaction, or lack thereof, to Mahal getting a title opportunity despite no wins in a year while a recent Hook callout of AEW World Champion Samoa Joe received “online outrage.”
A double standard:@730hook 28-1 career record, on winning streak calls out the Champ, a logical challenge sparks online outrage
Jinder has literally lost every single match he's in for the past year, immediately gets title shot, where is the rage#AEWDynamite TOMORROW on TBS
Khan didn’t provide specific instances of said outrage to the Hook callout.
In a now-deleted tweet, Mahal responded to Khan, asking “Who tf is Hook?”
Khan first started getting attention Tuesday for calling out USA Network who took a perceived subtle dig at Khan’s public affinity for Cagematch for replying “What was the cagematch rating?” to a tweet about Rollins and Mahal having a history in NXT.
Khan called the tweet “a moral victory for USA” and one more win than Mahal got in the last year, adding “You really put AEW in our place getting Jinder Mahal in a big match on your tv show. Do it more often”.
A moral victory for USA is one win more than their World Title challenger Jinder Mahal has in the past 364 days… because it's been literally a full year since he won a match. You really put AEW in our place getting Jinder Mahal in a big match on your tv show. Do it more often https://t.co/0kpuUsvkm1
Khan’s comments got reaction from several in the industry including former WCW head Eric Bischoff who had a falling out with Khan despite appearing on AEW TV before.
After Bischoff shared a clown emoji with the tweet, Khan then replied with the following:
Mahal and Rollins got into a brawl on Monday’s Raw that led to the match being made. The 37-year-old has wrestled sparingly over the last year, last scoring a win over Julius Creed on the 2023 edition of NXT New Year’s Evil.
Since then, he has wrestled just five times with the last coming in a trios bout at September’s Superstar Spectacle in India. He made his return to Raw just over a week ago in a promo segment that led to The Rock returning to the show.
Eric Bischoff recently suffered a health scare that doctors say almost took his life.
The 67-year-old detailed what happened on an episode of his 83 Weeks podcast, saying his problems started when he added a fiber supplement to his diet.
“I’m hypoglycemic, meaning if I have a candy bar, I’ll pass out,” he said.
“I’m reading about all this stuff and one of the things I read was using a supplement like Metamucil or, in this case, I used…psyllium husks. So, I’m thinking I’m going to add these psyllium husks to my repertoire.”
I’m looking at the directions and it says ‘Recommended one to three tablespoons.’ And I’m going, ‘Well, that’s for the average person.’ Since I spent 30 years in the wrestling business, I know that if one to three is good for the average person that I need a minimum of four to five, because that’s how that works. That’s where I stopped, I didn’t read the rest of the directions, especially the important part that said, ‘Don’t start out with a maximum dose right away, work your way up to it.’
Bischoff then drank the psyllium husks in a smoothie. Later that day, he went to the bathroom and began passing blood.
I get up, go to the bathroom, and I’m passing buckets of blood, like lots of it,” Bischoff continued.
He wasn’t feeling any other symptoms other than passing blood, however, so Bischoff decided to just go to bed and hope the problem resolved by morning. He also noted that he did not inform his wife about the situation.
Late that night, he checked his blood pressure and it was very low. He told his wife that he needed to go to the hospital and passed out immediately after. After coming to, he took a shower as he waited for the ambulance and blacked out again.
“The moral of the story is just read the f***ing directions,” he continued.
Doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong with him but sent him home after it appeared the bleeding had stopped. Two days later, he passed out and started passing blood again. He went back to the hospital and spent a couple of days in the ICU. Doctors still couldn’t figure out where the bleeding was coming from.
“So, now they are having a discussion with me about how much of my intestines they are going to surgically remove, and give me a little bag.
And I’m going, ‘Oh no, we’re not doing anything’ but the doctor was pretty serious.”
The doctors told Bischoff they were going to perform surgery and they might need to remove some of his intestines. However, 10 minutes into the procedure, they determined he was bleeding too much for them to continue. They also informed Bischoff’s wife that the hospital was out of his blood type.
I had used up all of the blood they had at the hospital or in the county where I live in. So, they put me in a helicopter and life-flighted me up to Billings, Montana because they had better equipment and experienced surgeons up there and all that kind of stuff.
Bischoff then spent another day or two in the ICU and started to feel better. He also stopped passing blood but the doctors were hesitant to let him leave the hospital. They performed more tests to determine the cause of the bleeding but doctors said they couldn’t find anything wrong with him.
“It was a complete mystery. And I’m thinking, “It’s not a mystery, I know exactly what happened. I took those three big heaping tablespoons of psyllium.’
The lining of your intestines are so vascular that it heals very, very quickly so over the course of 24 hours, whatever I tore up healed and now with all the tests they had, they couldn’t tell me what was wrong with me. But I knew, I told the doctor, I said, ‘I’m pretty sure’ because it was the only thing that I did differently.
The doctor did tell me, he said, ‘You almost died twice, you almost died in Cody [Wyoming] and you almost died here.'”
Bischoff says he’s feeling fine now and even went to a sushi bar not long after being discharged from the hospital.
Ric Flair says Jim Ross has lost all credibility with him.
Speaking on the most recent episode of his To Be The Man podcast, Flair was critical of Ross for his appearance on Dark Side of The Ring last year.
“Jim Ross lost every bit of credibility with me in life, in spite of calling me the greatest wrestler of all time or whatever in his induction, when he jumped on Dark Side of [the Ring],” Flair said. “Because all he is starving for and leaning on in life is to be relevant because he ain’t.”
“I can forgive Jim Ross for Dark Side, which I have because there’s nothing worth it, but I don’t appreciate it. Jerry Lawler texted me, I don’t know how many people said, ‘What the f–k did Ross mean? You got to know when to walk away from Ric Flair?’ Well, the WWE learned when to walk away from Jim Ross. I’m going to the 30th reunion, do you think he is?”
“At the same time, Jim Ross will always be my favorite announcer,” Flair would say later. “I’m not diminishing his skills. I’m not like Eric [Bischoff] saying I was no good at anything. I’m telling you Jim was the f—ing best but I also thought he was one of my best friends. A friend doesn’t do that.”
Ross appeared on the September 16, 2021 edition of VICE TV’s Dark Side of the Ring episode covering 2002’s Plane Ride from Hell.
“He’s the life of the party,” Ross said of Flair on the show. “If you know him, you know where to exit the party and go to your own safe place or you don’t know the rules, and you find yourself in deep water.”
When asked why Flair wasn’t suspended or punished for his behavior on the flight, Ross responded:
“Good question. I guess for lack of a better term, he was a made man. He was such a high level made man that he got a pass. Was it the right thing to do? I don’t know. You’re listening to it, folks, you decide. He got a pass.”
Ross later said that he was “misrepresented a time or two” on the show and that he would no longer appear on the series. He did take part in VICE TV’s Tales from the Territories, however, which Dark Side of the Ring creators Evan Husney and Jason Eisener were also involved with
Earlier in the show, Flair also responded to comments Eric Bischoff made about him recently that were critical of his drawing power.
“When are they going to make [a documentary] about him?” Flair asked about Bischoff. “You know why they don’t? Because you can’t find three people to say a good thing about him. Well? Name them. Who?”
Later in the show, Flair mentioned two good things about Bischoff.
“Eric and I have been friends off and on and I respect him for two things: He called me when my son died which is more than a couple other people I can name did. He did the right thing, I swear to god and people will be mad at me for saying this, but when Charles [Robinson] and I wrestled Savage and Madusa and Randy dropped off the top rope and broke Charles’ rib and almost killed him?”
“Randy didn’t give him a f—ing dime. Eric wrote him a cheque for 25 grand. So I will thank Eric for that.”
Ric Flair has clarified what he’ll be doing in San Antonio for the Royal Rumble, as well as his thoughts on Eric Bischoff, Andrade, and Sami Zayn in the Bloodline.
Flair addressed these topics and more during an episode of To Be The Man released on Wednesday.
Speaking on the topic of his son-in-law Andrade, Flair said he doesn’t feel AEW has used him right.
“I like the stuff with Matt Hardy but I don’t think they use him properly, myself. I’m going to be, obviously, biased. I think he is a much better singles performer than he is in a tag match,” Flair said.
Flair continued to comment on Andrade recently revealing he suffered a torn pectoral muscle.
“It’s to be determined, I don’t know. I know it was a bad tear, so he’s going to be out awhile with it,” he said.
The 16-time World Champion also addressed the men’s WarGames match and stated he’s not a fan of Sami Zayn in the Bloodline because he feels the character is too comedic.
“Looking at Roman and what Bloodline is and how they conduct themselves, I found him bringing way too much comedy to it. But apparently, it’s worked, so maybe that’s me being old school.”
“I didn’t like it because I thought the kid’s comical, his character’s comical,” Flair continued to say of Zayn.
Flair also stated that he would like to see Tony Khan start his own Hall of Fame someday.
“I wish Tony would start a Hall of Fame, that would create a lot of interest and do it based on people who he thinks were good in the history of the business not just guys from AEW the last three years. That would actually draw a lot of attention if he had his own Hall of Fame,” Flair said.
Flair also clarified earlier comments he made on last week’s show about being invited to the Royal Rumble. He noted that he will not be in the Rumble match or participating in the show itself but rather will be in San Antonio signing autographs on the day of the Rumble.
“I have not been invited to the Rumble. I’m going to San Antonio to sign autographs separately,” he said.
As the conversation turned to Hulk Hogan, Flair said that he always had a good relationship with him. He would continue to say that this is unlike the relationship he had with Eric Bischoff.
“Everybody wants to think there was animosity between me and Hulk. Hulk didn’t sign my cheques, Eric did. Eric f–ked me every time he turned around. When you see my documentary, he’s still a prick in it. Oh, he’s still a prick, he’s an arrogant prick.”
Eric Bischoff has responded to Tony Khan calling him “contradictory & hypocritical” regarding his criticisms of AEW.
Bischoff has been critical of AEW for frequently having “cold matches” with no build on its programming. Khan recently fired back on Bischoff’s criticism by stating that during Bischoff’s time running WCW, the company often had matches with no storyline behind them on its programming as well.
“Frankly, the person that has been the most incendiary, contradictory, and hypocritical on this entire point is Eric Bischoff,” Khan said on Busted Open last week.
Bischoff responded to Khan’s comments on an episode of his 83 Weeks released on Monday.
“There were certainly random matches that didn’t have any story in WCW, I’m not denying that but I’m also going to point out, I don’t think I ever said in any of my commentary about AEW, that I believe every match should have a story,” Bischoff said.
“When you are introducing new talent or when you have talent that you haven’t really matched up storyline-wise with an opponent yet but you want to expose that talent, you want the audience to become familiar with that talent, you want to establish that talent, sure, put people in matches that don’t really have story. But use that time, in non-storyline matches, to give us some real backstory and information about said talent.”
“My issue and my comments about AEW and the creative behind it is really a bunch of top matches that don’t have sufficient story or structure or at least a compelling one.”
“Your top matches, your A, B, C, and D storylines, that’s different. I’ve seen a lot of matches, a lot of storylines – what AEW considers a storyline- that I feel are just nothing more than excuses for a match. They are not well-crafted stories.”
“I believe in today’s competitive environment with television being what it is, that if you want to – pay attention, Tony – build and grow your audience, you are going to have to do it with well-crafted, compelling, well-structured storylines and I don’t see it. I see excuses for matches, and that’s not a storyline.”
In the continuing online feud between AEW head Tony Khan and former WCW and Impact head Eric Bischoff, Khan said his one-time friend has been “incendiary, contradictory and hypocritical” in his critiques of how Khan puts together certain Dynamite matches.
Making his weekly appearance on Busted Open Radio Wednesday to promote tonight’s show, Khan took a turn near the end of the show to address a fascination about a perception “that every match on every show should have a long storyline built to what it’s taking place. It just doesn’t need to be the case for every single match.”
Without mentioning them by name, he alluded to that being the case because of how WWE has put together their TV product over the last 20 years. He said there are stories, and have been, for the majority of the matches on his own TV product.
He then took aim at Bischoff who has appeared on AEW TV in the past and Khan once called a friend. Earlier this fall, Bischoff took specific issue with Khan’s comments about how WCW would still be in business if Ted Turner knew half as much about booking as he did which apparently fractured their relationship.
“Frankly, the person that has been the most incendiary, contradictory and hypocritical on this entire point is Eric Bischoff,” he said, explaining that to him, the “good” WCW Nitros from 1995 to 1998 featured random lucha matches and other unexpected pairings.
“There was a certain exquisite randomness to the lineup of the card.” he said. “There were a lot of stories happening in WCW, but probably less than half the matches on Nitro had a story going into them and that was fine. It was the industry standard show.”
He said WCW then copied the competition’s method of doing things where every single match had to be happening for a reason.
He said his own reason for a seemingly random pairing could be the start of something new or just a challenge to see who’s the best in that given match.
“To see the person who probably put more cold matches on TV, and did it successfully and did it well, say that it’s an abomination to do it is pretty contradictory,” Khan said, later adding, “I definitely don’t want to see fans get brainwashed into thinking there’s only one way to do this just because they’ve seen it done one way for a long time.”
A new autobiography from Eric Bischoff is scheduled to be released later this year.
It was announced today that Bischoff’s second autobiography — titled “Grateful” — will be released on November 11, 2022. The autobiography is in partnership with Guy Evans, who was the author of the book “NITRO: The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapse of Ted Turner’s WCW.”
Bischoff’s first autobiography, “Controversy Creates Cash,” was released in 2006.
“Grateful” will focus on Bischoff’s post-2006 career, including “his WWE return, AEW involvement, TNA experience, and much more.”
In 2019, Bischoff returned to WWE as the executive director of SmackDown. He spent less than four months in the role before being replaced by Bruce Prichard.
Bischoff was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2021.
In a press release for “Grateful,” Bischoff spoke about what will be covered in the book:
If you were to talk to me in 2006 or 2007, I fully believed that my days in pro wrestling were over. If you had asked me what the next 15 years of my life would look like, it would be nothing like what ultimately transpired.
Truthfully, over these past 15 years – while I’ve had some wonderful successes – I’ve had some spectacular failures, too. There have been some really difficult times for my family and I.
In fact, far from being grateful, there were years in which I was frequently angry – and mostly angry at myself, by the way.
But here I am, and as of today…I’ve made a comeback. Not a complete comeback – but close. I’ve learned that it’s one thing to achieve success, but another thing to achieve it, lose it, and then achieve it again. I’m on my way – and Grateful tells that story in its entirety.
This will be no ordinary pro wrestling autobiography. While granted, this is a story about what’s happened in my life over the past 15 years, it’s also about some of the broader lessons I learned along the way.
Now don’t get me wrong: throughout this book, there will be more than enough rasslin’ talk to shake a stick at. TNA? It’s all here. My relationship with Hulk Hogan? Read on. My return to WWE in 2019? The Hall of Fame? AEW? Yes, yes and yes.
Equally, however, I hope readers take away some useful insights about some of the other topics that are important to me: life, death, family, relationships, business and perhaps some things you’ve rarely heard me talk about – until now.
“Grateful” is now available for pre-order. It’s priced at $54.95 for the hardcover version and $34.95 for the paperback version.
Bischoff has co-hosted the “83 Weeks” podcast with Conrad Thompson since 2018.
Tony Khan has responded with a colorful rant to Eric Bischoff’s claims that CM Punk has been “the biggest financial flop in the history of wrestling.”
“That’s a s—– opinion, it’s the most b——- opinion I’ve ever heard,” Khan said. “That’s f—— b——.”
“There’s only one person that can attest to that. I don’t know what other people, I can only attest to what’s happened here and public record, and some of these things are a matter of public record…” Khan said.
We do have, over the years, a good amount of financial data in pro wrestling. I can tell you, no one wrestler has ever come in and made a bigger plus delta financial difference in the history of my company,” Khan said of Punk.
“This is the third year anniversary this week, going into year four, no one person has ever made a more positive impact. We just did a record pay-per-view buy, every pay-per-view, he’s done a four pay-per-view cycle now, every one of them was the record,” Khan continued.
“Whether it was All Out, where he was a huge part of the draw with Darby [Allin], his debut of course was a huge thing with the First Dance, the biggest Rampage draw in the history of that show.”
“The matches, he carried the Friday Night War, which by the way, is a matter of record in f—— court in the state of California that we won the Friday Night War, just ask [WWE attorney] Jerry McDevitt, ‘cuz he f—— wrote it, this guy [Punk] won it versus Matt Sydal, who’s a great wrestler. He had another g—— great match on Friday night.
“This f—— guy [Punk], he did the f—— Friday Night War, he did the First Dance, he’s done the record Double or Nothing, he did the record All Out in his debut, he was part of a record Full Gear in a great match with Eddie Kingston, he’s wrestled a bunch of f—— young guys and a bunch of veterans in between there, Will Hobbs, Daniel Garcia g——–, then he showed up and did the biggest program in terms of everything, TV, buys, ever with MJF, and then he did the g—— main event here,” Khan said.
“He’s the biggest part of financial success in the history of this company. Let’s f—— go,” said Khan.
Punk labeled Bischoff an “old head bad faith bad take carny dips—” in a tweet in response to Bischoff’s criticisms, though Punk was quick to point out that he never mentioned Bischoff by name.
“I didn’t have a Twitter war with anybody,” Punk said. “I never mentioned him by name. I think people like that just need to die in the dark. I don’t need to speak their name and stuff.”
“I’m focused on what we’re doing and the positives we bring to the world. Everybody’s got a s—– opinion,” Punk said. “Just let him have it.”
Khan and Punk’s comments can be seen below.
Punk defeated Hangman Page to win the AEW World title in the main event of Double or Nothing.
Jeff Jarrett, Eric Bischoff, and Summer Rae all made appearances on tonight’s episode of SmackDown.
Bischoff appeared on the show talking to Adam Pearce, praising him for his leadership skills. Prior to the main event, Jarrett appeared and asked Rick Boogs what his name was, leading to Boogs doing his trademark name announcement. Summer Rae appeared in the crowd prior to the Natalya vs. Aliyah match.
Bischoff appeared last month on WWE programming, serving as an official for the Miz and Maryse wedding vow renewal ceremony. That ceremony went awry when Edge interrupted the ceremony, leading to Maryse and Miz receiving a “brood bath”, with some of the contents landing on Bischoff.
Jarrett most recently was a road agent for WWE, but left the company last year. He is scheduled to face Effy in a match at The Wrld on GCW this Sunday at the Hammerstein Ballroom.
Summer Rae will be part of the 30-woman Royal Rumble match that will take place on January 29.
