This WrestleZone Radio exclusive features WZ Daily’s Nick Hausman interviewing former WCW President Eric Bischoff.
This interview is in conjunction with the release of Eric’s new WWE Documentary feature and DVD set, Eric Bischoff: Sports Entertainment’s Most Controversial Figure.
You can find some of Eric’s comments from the interview transcribed below.
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On the phone call he describes in his documentary from Vince inviting him to be a performer in WWE and if he ever thought about bringing Vince McMahon in to WCW as a character like Vince brought him in to WWE had WWE had been the one to go out of business and not WCW:
EB: No. It’s a hypothetical. Would I have? I don’t know. Maybe. I’d like to think so. I think the point I made in the DVD is that it was a very gracious and elegant thing for Vince to say and do to kind of break the ice. Just kind of bringing it back to a real level and just shoving all the baggage. I just thought it was a very cool, very elegant thing for him to do. Once he said that it made me realize this could be a good working relationship. Would I have done the same thing? I’d like to think I would. I would think I would be proud enough and man enough to put whatever issues I had aside and reach out and move forward in a productive way. I’d like to think that would happen but I have no idea if it would have or not. I certainly didn’t think about it at the time.
Some of the topics in this interview include:
- Allowing fans to see his home in Cody, WY
- His fears about not having any input about his recently released WWE documentary
- His time as an amateur karate fighter
- His friendship with Sonny Onoo
- What he learned from martial arts
- The fight between him and Vince McMahon that never happened
- The upcoming WWE Draft and what he remembers from the last brand extension
- Wrestlers frustrations about not getting enough of a push
- What talent from the past 10-15 years can compare to the break out success of John Cena
- Roman Reigns’ WWE suspension
- Why it’s harder to become a break out pro wrestling star now
- His philosophy about wanting to have a spontaneous product
- “Mean” Gene Okerlund’s comments about him
- What led to him being ousted from WCW the first time
- What led to WCW to being so disheveled in the six months after he left
- Whether or not he would have brought Vince McMahon in to WCW if things had gone differently and WWE had gone out of business instead of WCW
- If he thinks that he was a better on-air performer in WWE than WCW
- Whether he has any projects that he hasn’t had a chance to get to yet
- Donald Trump’s controversial statements and political strategy leading him to becoming the presumptive GOP nominee
- More…
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