Bischoff on Wrestling Recap – Ed Nordholm Playing ‘Small Ball’, Opinion on Mahal’s Victory, Music Rights in WCW, More!

Bischoff is joined on today’s show by his co-host Nick Hausman.

Bischoff opens today’s show by discussing Ed Nordholm’s decision to divulge personal messages between himself and Matt Hardy to the wrestling media. This is a whole new level of small ball in Bischoff’s opinion, and it stinks of desperation. It’s a very amateur move, and by sending out this information Bischoff suggests that Nordholm is basically wearing a sign around his neck that says ‘mark’.

Bischoff believes that the harder IMPACT pushes back against The Hardys in this battle over the ‘Broken Universe, in the court of public opinion they will be found guilty. They’re bringing a lot of bad publicity to their brand by fighting this war, and they’d be much better served to just let it go.

He believes that this whole thing is probably one big running joke within WWE at the moment, because it’s incredibly stupid. The fact that Ed Nordholm and IMPACT tried to ‘sell’ WWE a gimmick is hilarious in Bischoff’s opinion, and there’s no way anyone at WWE’s head offices are taking this serious at all.

Stipulation Set for Extreme Rules Match

Matt Hardy announced on RAW tonight that he and Jeff Hardy will defend their RAW Tag Team Championship titles against Sheamus and Cesaro inside of a steel cage. Here is the updated card:

Fatal 5 Way to Crown #1 Contender to WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar
Seth Rollins vs. Samoa Joe vs. Finn Balor vs. Bray Wyatt vs. Roman Reigns

Kendo Stick on a Pole Match for the RAW Women’s Title
Bayley vs. Alexa Bliss

WWE Intercontinental Title Match
The Miz vs. Dean Ambrose
The title can change hands on a disqualification.

Submission Match for the WWE Cruiserweight Title
Austin Aries vs. Neville

Steel Cage match for RAW Tag Team Title Match
Cesaro and Sheamus vs. The Hardys

Two Spoilers for Tonight’s Episode of RAW

PWInsider reports that The Drifter will be making his in-ring debut on tonight’s episode of RAW.

Also on RAW, the stipulation for The Hardy Boyz vs. Sheamus & Cesaro at the upcoming Extreme Rules event will revealed on tonight’s show. Matt is scheduled to face Sheamus with the winner naming the stipulation for the upcoming Extreme Rules match.

The Hardy Boyz Hint at Possible Singles Run In WWE

While speaking with SPORTBible, Matt and Jeff Hardy were asked about the possibilities of each of each of them having a singles run and/or feud.

Jeff responded, “I think the brotherly feuding might be over, I don’t think people really want to see us fight each other but when you think back to the beauty of the Final Deletion, if ever something like that comes into play again then that’s the only way I see us doing something like that but it’s inevitable that we’ll go do our solo things before we’re done but right now it’s all about the tag teams.”

Matt explain why it was necessary to return as a tag team but that eventually he could see he and his brother doing their own thing.

“I think right now our goal, especially starting, coming back, being re-introduced to the WWE Universe after being away for a substantial amount of time, really was to be a tag team,” Matt said.

He continued, “I think down the road there will be potential for both of us doing our own things; we’re both strong singles personalities in many ways, and I think as performers we’ve grown as we’ve got older, we’ve got smarter.”

“Just for starters, if we get to where we need to be, I think ‘Broken’ Matt Hardy against Bray Wyatt would be an amazing deal, and you look at him [Jeff] – him vs Seth Rollins, him vs Finn Balor, either one of us vs Roman Reigns – there’s a lot of cool, interesting combinations of guys who became stars in the last five or six years that we’ve never worked against, it’s totally like a fresh slate. So there’s a lot of potential forces as singles competitors also.”

Another Match Announced for WWE Extreme Rules

WWE announced on tonight’s episode of RAW that Dean Ambrose will defend his WWE Intercontinental Championship against The Miz at the upcoming Extreme Rules event. Here is the updated card for the show:

#1 Contenders Match for the WWE Universal Title
Seth Rollins vs. Samoa Joe vs. Finn Balor vs. Bray Wyatt vs. Roman Reigns

WWE Intercontinental Championship
The Miz vs. Dean Ambrose
The title can change hands on a count out.

RAW Women’s Title Match
Bayley vs. Alexa Bliss
Kendo stick on a pole match.

RAW Tag Team Championship
Sheamus and Cesaro vs. The Hardy Boyz

WWE Cruiserweight Championship
Austin Aries vs. Neville

WWE Extreme Rules takes place on June 4, 2017. As always, we will be providing live play-by-play coverage of the event.