Eric Bischoff wasn’t a fan of Rhea Ripley coming to the side of Maxxine Dupri after the latter was booed heavily at a recent WWE live event.
When footage of the heavily negative response to Dupri’s match went viral, Ripley said she’d love for fans such as these to face boos at their workplace.
On a recent edition of his “83 Weeks” podcast, Bischoff made the argument as to why the heel Ripley shouldn’t have shown support for Dupri. He said,
“I don’t wanna know what you’re really like… I wanna buy into your character! I don’t wanna know your feels, or your virtues, I wanna believe in your character especially if you’re promoting your social media under your character name with your character images.”
Bischoff also argued that by Ripley responding to what happened, it will only encourage more behavior like this. He said,
“All it’s going to do is encourage more bad behavior, you’re acknowledging bad behavior on social media. It doesn’t make any sense to me to try and use social media to mitigate or soften a situation.
“It’s part of the process, you have to learn! And you certainly have to learn to toughen up and not be emotionally affected by it. If you’re that sensitive, and you’re going to be affected that badly by someone booing you because you had a bad night, then you’re in the wrong business!”
Many have argued that the reaction, especially by one fan, to Dupri was unnecessarily harsh given that she has only competed in a handful of matches.
