Eric Bischoff Calls IWC a “Vocal Minority” – On a recent episode of his 83 Weeks podcast, Eric Bischoff voiced strong support for WWE President Nick Khan’s stance against catering to online wrestling critics. Bischoff drew a direct comparison between today’s Internet Wrestling Community (IWC) and the wrestling “dirt sheet” writers he encountered during his time running WCW, maintaining that booking for a small, overly vocal fan segment is a mistake.
“It’s funny. You know, I’ve been saying the same thing for years. Take out Twitter, insert dirt sheets. You know, it’s the same thing. It’s the same mentality,” Bischoff said. “The reason they’re so upset about Nick Khan saying, ‘Don’t book for these morons, they’re just a small group of people that make a lot of freaking noise,’ the reason that upsets them so much is because they desperately believe their identity as human beings is tied directly to the amount of influence they have on social media. And the very idea that they’re just a bunch of nerds screaming in the darkness and their voices don’t really matter scares them to death, because if they don’t have that, they don’t have anything.”
Bischoff went on to reinforce his long-held belief that mainstream success comes from reaching casual fans, not appeasing niche online communities. He reiterated advice he used to give during the WCW era, specifically regarding coverage from well-known wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer.
“I used to go so far as to tell people internally, ‘Hey, if guys like Dave Meltzer are burying you, you know you’re on the right track. Anytime you read something in Dave Meltzer’s sheet, think about doing the exact opposite. You’ll be close.’ I mean, I’ve been saying this for decades, so it’s really fun to see someone of Nick Khan’s level coming out and essentially taking the same position, because it’s the accurate one.”
Bischoff’s endorsement of Khan’s viewpoint underscores a broader philosophy in WWE leadership: that the path to sustainable growth lies in broad-market storytelling, not in reactive decisions based on online discourse.
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Eric Bischoff Calls IWC a “Vocal Minority”
