Eric Bischoff made his surprise return to TNT for the first time since WCW folded in 2000 when he made a cameo appearance on AEW Dynamite earlier this month.
However, the news of his return had leaked online before the show and according to Chris Jericho, an ‘NXT reject’ was to be blamed for spreading this spoiler.
Jericho talked about the incident on the latest episode of his Saturday Night Stream on YouTube and he revealed that an ‘NXT reject’ was working as a spy in AEW:
“Social media is a different ball of wax, though; I think the amount of people who are on social media is very small compared to the overall people watching. For example, when we had the debate and Eric Bischoff was announced on Reddit and we know the spy is, by the way. Oh, we know. He’ll never f—ing be back in AEW. NXT reject was a spy, so print that.”
Explaining how they handled the situation after the leak, Y2J said that they decided to go ahead with their original plans and it still surprised a lot of people:
“I was like, listen, we can announce this or we can just not announce it and don’t worry about it and see, you know, the people that know will know and maybe they’ll watch if they weren’t going to,” he explained. “The people that don’t know, will still be surprised. That’s exactly what happened. People were super surprised that Bischoff was there and it worked out great.”
