Episode 418: Bidding Battle

83 Weeks with Eric Bischoff

Podcast Heat

Sports, Wrestling

4.6 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of 83 Weeks, Eric Bischoff and Conrad Thompson are back with a no holds barred conversation covering some of the hottest topics in professional wrestling and Eric is NOT pulling any punches!

Eric kicks things off by breaking down why Randy Orton represents one of the last true "old school" performers in today's business, and what sets him apart from the modern era. Then, Bischoff sounds off on the idea of wrestling tribalism and why he believes it really only exists in one place.

The discussion heats up as Eric gives major props to Brock Lesnar for going out of his way to elevate rising powerhouse Oba Femi, calling it exactly what the business needs more of. Eric gets candid about "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, admitting he understands the itch to return but explains why, in his opinion, it's never going to happen.

Things get controversial as Eric reacts to Ricochet's recent comments, holding nothing back with his blunt take. And in true 83 Weeks fashion, the guys close things out with a wild what if scenario what would the wrestling world look like if Tony Khan had ever gotten the chance to bid on buying WWE?

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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 Shoe Gold're listening to 83 weeks with Eric fished off, Eric.
0:38.6	What's going on, man? How are you? Doing great. Doing great here in Los Angeles. Got to spend a little time with my daughter, had dinner with her night before last, and got together a little bit last night, so that's always fun. And just cranking away, I can care of business here at Real American Freestyle. You know, we are going to talk about Real American Freestyle, but you brought up Montana.
0:57.6	We hear about Garrett all the time, and of course, us longtime Rathland fans were familiar with him a little bit from his days in front of the camera on TNA. What is Montana up to these days? How's she doing? Montana's doing great. You know, she more or less followed in my footsteps.
1:12.7	After graduating college, she got a degree in film and television.
1:18.0	She came to work for Jason Hervey and I at the Shoeff for v. Entertainment.
1:22.8	Started out as a, basically as a production assistant and kind of worked a way up to development.
1:29.3	Learned about as much as she could possibly learn working for Jason and I, and I encourage
1:33.7	her to work for other production companies so she can get different kinds of experience
1:38.5	that she did. She ended up becoming vice president of a company called B-10. It's a production
1:45.8	studio here in Los Angeles.
1:49.4	Did that for a long time. I just decided she wanted to get
1:51.8	out of television for a lot of reasons.
1:54.2	I've talked about many of them here.
1:56.0	It's just not the same business as it used to be 10,
1:58.7	15 years ago.
2:00.5	Anyway, she bought a franchise.
2:03.3	She still the English Swim School, and she has this franchise here in Los Angeles and teaches
2:10.7	swimming to young kids.
2:14.3	How about that, man?
2:15.6	I love getting a little family update.
2:17.9	That's exciting. I'm glad to hear. It's a really interesting franchise, too. You know, when I first heard about it, I was kind of like, what? You're going to do what? But I looked into the model of self, the franchise model of self. It's a really, really interesting business, and it's done quite well. I glad to hear it's going well, and we know it's going well with Real American Freestyle. It's going to be going down next weekend in Tampa. Real American Freestyle on the way. It is a live event, and it is going to be a packed house. It's going to be a lot of fun. I think it's until now at Real American Freestyle.com, where you can do what I've been doing, and watch on the Fox Nation app. Eric, this is one week out from another big event. Are you nervous, anxious, excited? This probably feels like a home game in Tampa a little bit, doesn't it? Yeah, it does kind of feel that way. I mean, there's a lot of emotions around this event. First of all, it's, you know,
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