Eric Bischoff criticizes AEW's upcoming Bash at the Beach Event 

While WWE may take legal action against AEW for using the Bash at the Beach name, it doesn't seem like others are impressed by the move either. Former WCW President and WWE legend Eric Bischoff believe that AEW needs to find their own vision rather than recreate WCW's success.

On his 83 Weeks Podcast, Eric Bischoff detailed why AEW should stick to their own thing rather than raise a dead horse, so to speak. He believes that AEW needs to be the alternative and not be retro. He also says that it's not fresh or new but going backward rather than forward.

He also said that he could be wrong in his assessment and this could turn out to be for the better. He explained, ( H/T 411 Mania)

"I kind of understand it but I also think it’s a bad choice. AEW, as I said in a podcast that’s actually going to drop next week, you haven’t heard it yet, but AEW needs to find their own vision, they need to become their own brand, they need to become their own entity, they need to find a way that they’re really going to become the alternative, and the more often they go back and try to recreate the success of WCW and align themselves with WCW’s success, I think they’re missing the mark. And it’s not that it’s a mistake, it may work out for them, but it’s not fresh, it’s not new, it’s going back, and I don’t think you can go forward and go back simultaneously."

"You have to make up your mind. If you’re going to be retro, be retro, embrace retro, don’t come out and tell people you’re the new alternative and you’re the new vision and you’re the new this and the new that and then keep going back to so much of what made WCW successful. I don’t know, it’s just me, and I don’t know that I’m right about that, I could be wrong, it may be very successful for them, but it just seems to be contradictory to becoming the new evolution, or the next evolution of sports entertainment.”

Like most, Eric Bischoff does have a right to his opinion. On one hand, efforts should be made to make AEW different from WWE. On the other hand, Cody Rhodes, in particular, has been dipping into WCW's past with recurring legends to great effect and in that sense, that success has already been on display. It'll be interesting to see what happens once Bash at the Beach gets underway.