Episode 416: AEW, Make Your Move!
83 Weeks with Eric Bischoff
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4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 163 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode comes to you from the Blue Chew studio. Get 10% off your first month of BlueChew Gold with code 83Weeks at BlueChew.com
On this episode of 83 Weeks, Eric Bischoff and host Conrad Thompson welcome legendary wrestling producer David Sahadi to the show to discuss his new book, Tales from Beyond the Squared Circle.
Sahadi pulls back the curtain on decades of television production in professional wrestling, sharing how Vince McMahon taught him the importance of producing with emotion, while Eric Bischoff showed him how taking risks could transform wrestling television. David also reveals the surprising story behind how Monday Night Raw got its name and recounts a shocking personal moment involving Kevin Dunn and his father's legends check.
The conversation also dives into Sahadi's time working with Eric in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he explains why Bischoff was the true creative force while Hulk Hogan focused strictly on being talent. Plus, Eric and Raj Giri weigh in on today's wrestling headlines, including why Road Dogg could be exactly what All Elite Wrestling needs, the intensity surrounding the RAF aftermath brawl, and Eric's take on why Danhausen's WWE debut didn't land the way it should have. It's fascinating behind-the-scenes storytelling, bold opinions, and decades of wrestling television history only on 83 Weeks.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode comes to you from the Blue Chew Studio. |
| 0:02.9 | Get 10% off your first month of Blue Chew Gold with the code 83 weeks at bluechew.com. |
| 0:38.7 | I'm Hey, hey, it's Conrad the mortgage guy, and you're listening to 83 weeks with Eric Fischoff, Eric. |
| 0:39.6 | What's going on, man? |
| 0:40.3 | How are you? |
| 0:41.9 | Doing all right. |
| 0:43.0 | Doing all right. |
| 0:47.7 | We got about three, four inches of snow last night, so it looks like a winter wonderland here. |
| 0:48.8 | It's been like the easiest winter since I've been here, as long as I can remember. |
| 0:54.3 | It's been like October and November all winter long, but we finally got a taste of winter |
| 0:58.7 | for us now, so it's kind of nice to see. |
| 1:01.5 | Well, it's nice to see you. |
| 1:02.9 | We greatly appreciate you guys joining us at the subscribe button, turn on the notifications |
| 1:06.7 | bell on YouTube. |
| 1:08.1 | If you haven't already, that's 83 weeks.com. |
| 1:11.1 | What an incredible show we've got lined up for you. This is one of the more |
| 1:14.3 | monumental wrestling news weeks in quite a while. And we've got some real |
| 1:18.7 | American freestyle stuff. But first, we're going to throw out the format. Normally, |
| 1:23.1 | we're a no guess needed type show. But there's a new book coming out next week that I think you need to go ahead and |
| 1:29.7 | pre-order it right now. |
| 1:30.8 | You can get it on Amazon or anywhere else. |
| 1:33.2 | The name of the book is called Backstage Pass, Tales from Beyond the Squared Circle. |
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