Eric Bischoff Talks CM Punk Vs Samoa Joe At AEW All In – On a recent episode of his 83 Weeks Podcast, Eric Bischoff shared his thoughts on the match between CM Punk and Samoa Joe at AEW All In.
Bischoff found the CM Punk vs. Samoa Joe match to be solid and good, but his high expectations and the match’s consistent pacing left him slightly surprised and less excited about it than he had hoped.
“Look, it was a solid match. No negatives, right? I’m going to be honest. I’m going to be as honest as I can possibly be because, obviously, I have some biases, and I have a certain perspective based on what I like. And it’s all subjective. It’s just my opinion. So I will try to keep things as positive as possible. I thought the match was slow-paced. It didn’t have a lot of energy. I thought Punk started looking gassed after about two minutes in, and I don’t think he was. I think he was selling like he had run a marathon up to two hours before he decided to wrestle Joe And it’s just the pace of it I thought was surprisingly slow. Now, I will admit part of that is because I think my expectations were a little out of whack. I’ve never really seen Punk Joe’s history, and I understand they’ve had some really, really good matches in the past. I’m a huge fan of Samoa, Joe as a human being and as a character. So I was really, you know, I was excited and I wanted to, I wanted to put it over, and I and I and I am. It was solid. It was good. It just caught me a little bit. I thought starting a show with something was a little awkward. This slows the pace. I was also not surprised but disappointed to see that much blood early on in the show when I expected this thing was going to be a, you know, hemoglobin fest. And it certainly was. And I think starting off the show with that much blood when you know that much more is coming at some point it doesn’t matter anymore.”
“I notice, you know, obviously I just said slow pace that, you know, the blood I’ve already covered the match seemed to have one gear. There was like one speed from the minute the bell went off to the minute the match was over. There was like one gear. And I guess that’s the part that left me a little bit surprised and slightly disappointed. But again, that’s perhaps because my expectations were so high. But yeah, those, those are my notes for that match, yeah. CM Punk’s had it not been for that, I probably would have been more excited about it.”
Eric Bischoff Talks CM Punk Vs Samoa Joe At AEW All In
