The latest episode of Bischoff on Wrestling was released earlier tonight and featured exclusive interviews with MLW’s Court Bauer and the man who is 2-0 against AJ Styles in WWE… James Ellsworth!
Some of James’ comments have been transcribed below. You can begin listening to James’ appearance at the 50:30 minute mark in the embedded audio player below.
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On AJ Styles protecting him when he tucked his chin taking the Styles Clash:
JE: I got it back at the last second. He took care of me too. In practice everything was fine and all that. It’s just that instinct thing for a wrestler to, “tuck your chin.” That’s the one move you don’t do it on. I felt so bad about it afterwards. They were all cool about it and everything because it looked good on TV. It looked like he killed me. It’s not like it looked bad or anything. It was just that instinct of, “tuck your chin.” I’ve been told to do it for fourteen years and that’s all it was. I was ok. It was fine. I didn’t get hurt obviously and AJ is, like I said earlier in my humble opinion, is the best in the world. He knows how to adjust to things and everything was ok afterwards.
You can watch the spot in question starting at the 1:10 minute mark in the embedded video player below:
This week’s show kicks off with Eric talking about Bill Goldberg’s return to WWE and the emotional reaction he received from the fans.
Nick and Eric then discuss some more top pro wrestling news stories including:
- Billy Corgan suing TNA and all of the other drama surrounding TNA at the moment
- Mick Foley teasing that Sasha Banks and Charlotte could headline Hell in a Cell
- Linda McMahon’s $6 million donation to the Donald J. Trump Foundation
Eric then welcomes his first guest for this week MLW’s Court Bauer. During Court’s appearance the two discuss:
- The rise of the pro wrestling podcast
- What pro wrestling fans want from pro wrestling podcasts
- The brief period of time that Court and Eric were working for WWE at the same time
- Eric infamously getting dropped in a garbage truck by Vince McMahon
- Court’s memories of Eric backstage and watching him chat with Paul Heyman
- The time that Eric really disappointed Vince McMahon
- More…
After Court Bauer’s interview Eric then answers some questions from fans that were submitted on Twitter using the hashtag #BischoffOnWrestling.
Following the mail bag segment Eric then welcomes his second guest to the show, James Ellsworth. James chats candidly with Eric about:
- His time on the independent pro wrestling scene
- Running his own wrestling promotion and the meaningful work he does outside of pro wrestling
- What it was like to work with AJ Styles in the main event of Smackdown in a WWE World Championship match
- Fans’ concerns that he may have hurt his neck taking the Styles Clash from AJ in their first bout
- His reaction to getting his own TitanTron video, theme music and t-shirt
- Vince McMahon’s reaction backstage after his WWE World Championship match with AJ Styles
- What Dean Ambrose was like to work with
- More…
Eric then wraps the show up with his final thoughts for the week.
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