Bischoff continued to unpack the situation, expressing a warning to those higher up in AEW and Warner Bros. Discovery, as well as wrestlers, about taking political stances on a national platform. “If you think because you’re good out there performing in the ring, or you’re a successful professional wrestling character, that you’re so good that you can go out there and p**s off 50% of the audience that’s watching you, and if you think you’re so good that doesn’t matter? Then you’re out of touch,” he boldly proclaimed, adding that this goes for the corporate level as well.

“It’s not, like, a theory. Just go look, talk to the executives – if you can find them, because they’re probably all hiding now because they’ll never get hired again – that initiated those big brand disasters to go ‘woke’ and engage in the political firestorm,” Bischoff added, further expressing that politics in America have gone beyond political debates, referencing the real violence that happens in the real world.

Bischoff then explained why he’s so fired up about this ongoing debate. “It’s all about how politics has become more professional wrestling than professional wrestling,” he opined. “I don’t want to see politics become more like professional wrestling and I certainly don’t want professional wrestling to feel like politics! From anybody’s point of view! Even with someone who agrees with everything that I think, I don’t want that person interfering with my entertainment!”

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