“What the f**k are you doing in the TV business then dude?” – Eric Bischoff On CM Punk Saying Casual Fans Don’t Exist Anymore

By AG

Posted on May 11, 2022

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• “What the f**k are you doing in the TV business then dude?” – Eric Bischoff On CM Punk Saying Casual Fans Don’t Exist Anymore

After making his debut in All Elite Wrestling, CM Punk addressed the viewership of AEW Dynamite and claimed that casual pro-wrestling fans don’t exist anymore.

Former WCW President Eric Bischoff doesn’t agree with that statement and said the following on Strictly Business:

“How do you define the casual fan? I don’t know if there’s one definition and everybody will have their own definition.

I’ve always considered casual fans within the context of research as people who drop in once or twice a month and always have. They still like it, if there’s nothing going on if they have some time and they don’t have anything else they’re really interested in doing at that moment.

They might almost habitually check out wrestling. They probably don’t go to live events or go to one or two pay-per-views a year, but they still have an affinity for the product and will tune in occasionally. That’s a casual fan to me but I’m sure for other people they might have a different definition of that.

The casual fan is still out there. If you build it, honest to god as corny as it sounds, if you build it, your audience will show up. They will, that lapsed fan is another term I’ve heard in a lot of research that I did.

‘I used to watch wrestling but I don’t watch that sh*t anymore.’ Sometimes it’s just life, your job, your kids, whatever. If anybody’s going to try to convince me that you can’t find that audience again, they shouldn’t be in the wrestling business.

All due respect to CM Punk, CM Punk never spent 5 minutes in the television business. He knows a lot about what’s going on in the wrestling ring, he knows a lot about building a character, more than I ever will in terms of executing it.

But to make the casual statement that ‘I think the lapsed fan is gone and I don’t think they’re ever going to come back,’ what the f**k are you doing in the television business then dude? It makes no sense to me, I don’t believe it’s true.”

Speaking of Punk, he’s scheduled to face “Hangman” Adam Page for the AEW World Championship at the Double Or Nothing 2022 PPV on May 29.

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