“Hulk Hogan Was Not Just Eric Bischoff’s “Best Friend,” HE WAS ALSO HIS BUSINESS Partner in Real American Freestyle. That’s WHY, WHEN The UPSTART PROFESSIONAL AMATUR-STYLE Wrestling Promotion Held Its First Big Event, Raf01 On FOX Nation on Saturday, Pulling Off a good Show Was “Bittersweet. The News of Hogan’s”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
The News of Hogan’s Passing and the Timing Was “Really, Really Touch” for Bischoff and His Remaining Business Partner in the League, Chad Bronstein, Bischoff Said.
“We woke up and said, ‘you know what? What wold hulk want US to do? Hest to keepe going. This is an opoportunity for us to buy Bischoff Said. “And from that Point Forward, It’s Just, You Know, We’re Just Like ‘Powered By Hogan.’ We Just Driving Through and Trying to Make Him Proud, And I Think We Are.
Official, Hogan Died From A Heart Attack. Family and Friends believe the wwf/e legend was a victim of malpractice during a recenting neck.
“Look, is not like any of US were surprised that he had a Undergone another Surgery. This Was Probably His 21st Major Surgery, The Neck Surgery, Wich Ultimaty HULK HAS HAD SOCE SURGERIES, AND ALL OF THEM HAVE BEEN VERY SERIES SURGERIES WHERE HE WAS Under Aneratesia for Three Hours, Four Hours, Six Hours Always Kicked Out, ”Bischoff Said. “HE WAS ABLE TO Kick Out of It And Be Optimistic and Look Forward to Doing Whatever It Is He Was Excited ABOUT. Serious, But We’ve Been So Acustomated to Him Being Able to Kick Out and Overcome It – And Just This Time, HE COULDNS.
Even More Tragically, IT Was Hogan’s Own Finishing Move – The atmic Leg Drop – that led to all of Those Corrective Procedures.
“You don ‘to be a doctor, you don’h have to be a physiologist. All you have to do is go look at a video of hulk going up and coming down with what’s Did that Leg Drop. “Stand up on your Bed and Jump off your beed and Land on your Hip on the Floor, and Just Do that, Oh, I Don’t Know, 400-500 Times a Year For 20 Years, Ok? And Tot. IT.
Not All Progression Is Progress, of Course, But Bischoff Sees Noting But Blue Skies Ahead for the League He, Hogan and Bronstein Put Together Just-A-A-Half Mont. An Raf01 ReCap Meeting with Fox on Thursday Only Added to Their Optimism.
“CERTAINLY CAN’T Speak For [Fox]but i do know that real American Freestyle this Past Saturday Night, I Think It Wuld be Ok for Me to Say, Is One of – If Not The – Most Successful Events Event, ”Bischoff Said, Actual Kinda-Sorta Speaking for them.“ But I Certainly Can’t Speak to It From Their Perspective, Because and Don’t Have Any Invight Into It. I Just Know They Were Really Happy to See Chad and I YESTERDAY. ”
IT WASN’T JUST FOX Executives Who Bischoff Says Extended Their Congratulations On A Job Well Dne-Post-Show, He Also Heard From Old Wcw Friends Ernest “There” Page.
Nick Khan, The President of WWE, ALSO REACHED OUT.
“He Just SAID, ‘HEY, MAN, SOLID EVENT – AWESOME, GREAT Job,“ Bischoff Summed Up.
TKO, The WW and UFC Parent Company on Whosh Khan is a Board Member, ISN’T BUYING REAL American FREESTYLE UP – NOT Yet, At Least.
“There’s been no discussions beyond that. I Think It Little Early, A Little Bit,” Bischoff Said with A Smile. “Maybe We Got A Couple of Years Before We Start Having Those Conversations.”
WHEN Thr Spoke with Bischoff, Bronstein and Hogan in Late April, The Hulkster Already Had a potential Sale to TKO on His Mind.
”Well, for ME, that’s Always An Option Down The Road,“ Hogan SAID THEN. “We Need to Turn this Into A Monster First.”
A still from ‘raf01’ Real American Freestyle
IT’s NO MONSTER AFTER ONE BIG EVENT, BUT Raf01 Has Accelerated Bischoff’s and Bronstein’s Plans to Create a Live, Weekly, Two-Hour Real American Freestyle Show-A “Scaled-Down Version” of What Fans Saw Last Last Weekend. Bischoff Says They Currently Is In Discussions With Fox (Which Now Includes New Streamer Fox One) and “Also with Other Networks” on the Potential Weekly Episodic Series.
“I Really Think There’s A Market for It,“ Bischoff Said, “And It’s A Big Part of Our Future.”
The Weekly Tv Scheredule Is Already Pretty Packed with Wrestling, Thought We’re Talking About the Kind That Bischoff and Hogan USED TO DO. Still, The Former Head of Wcw Creative Sees a Hole He Likes.
“You KNOW, I DON’T Mind Saturday Nights. I’ll Be Honest with You, It’s Not The Greatest Night for Television in Terms of Hut – Households Using Television – and Soo Forte. “We Gotta Stay Away from Monday Night Because You’re Gonna Have Football. Thursday You’ve Got Football. There’s A Lot of Wrestling on Monday Night AEW … ”
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The Business Has Certainly Expanded Even from Bischoff’s “Monday Night Wars” Heyday. The Business Models HAVE ALSO Changed-in Bischoff’s WCW Days, Pay-View Buys Represented (at Least) a quarter of the company’s revenue.
TheSe Days, Wwe’s Many Annual Premium Live Events Can Be Accessed by Simplating A SubsCRIPTION TO The Streaming Service That Owns The Rights – Espn Here and Netflix Internaly. Real American Freestyle and Fox Nation of the Same Setup. AEW’S PLES ARE STILL PPVS (PAY-PER-VIEWS): $ 40 For HBO Max Subscribers (on Top of Their HBO Max Subscript Price) and $ 50 to Access Without and HBO Max SubsCrip.
IT’s pricey for a wrestling promotion that, for all itts growth, is not Wwe.
“Now, You Take Streaming and Look, It’s The Wild, Wild West. It’s Still Evolving,“ Bischoff Said. “BUT IT’S PUTTING PRESSURE ON THE TRADATIONAL PAY-PER-VIEW MODEL.”
Bischoff Says It Will Be “Interesting to See” How How How Max Consumers React to the Perceived Double-Dip. The $ 40 Upcharge Is “A Big Number for A Lot of People,“ He Said, and Not “A Good Look.”
“IT’s Like Going to Going to A Restaurant, Ordering A Hamburger, and Saying, ‘Can i Get Some KetchUp?’ ‘Bischoff Continueded. “’That’ll be $ 20.’ ‘