Eric Bischoff criticizes TNA’s AMC debut: “The production itself was so poor”
While speaking on his 83 Weeks podcast, former WCW President Eric Bischoff criticized TNA Impact’s premiere on AMC…
“The format itself was just really not very well – it wasn’t well-produced. I don’t know who’s writing their show, who’s producing their show, who’s directing their show. All of them have some work to do. Director, whoever decided to post those celebrities in the one corner of the building where there were no freaking people. There were people everywhere else around that building. Cameras caught it. But for some reason, they wanted to showcase the celebrities to get a little bit of that mainstream rub, which I dig. Get what you could get when you can get it. But they put those guys. They looked like jabronis.
They had a shot of Eric Young. For what reason? I don’t know. But Eric Young looked like some guy that walked in off the street, snuck in and grabbed the first chair he could, sitting by himself, looking around, hoping nobody caught him. What was that?
And it’s little things like that. Television is nothing but the little details laid out in a way that captures the audience’s imagination and holds onto it. These shots, the way the director called them, the ring looks like you could fit it in my kitchen.
I don’t know how big that ring is, but on camera, it looked like it was 16, not even 16. It might have been a 16 by 16, right? The overhead shot that they used made it look like a postage stamp. I would never use that shot again if they’re going to keep that same ring.
I’m not even going to address the creative or anything like that, but the production itself was so poor.”
TNA on AMC had ISSUES! #TNAImpact pic.twitter.com/jQCIFzE1Sx
— 83 Weeks with Eric Bischoff (@83Weeks) January 16, 2026