The latest episode of former WCW President Eric Bischoff’s podcast Bischoff on Wrestling was released last Wednesday and featured former WCW & WWE Superstar Lex Luger return with an over two hour long interview.
You can find some of Lex and Eric’s comments regarding Dusty Rhodes‘ booking style in WCW during the early-90s transcribed below.
Last night during RAW Bischoff announced that his guest on tomorrow’s episode of Bischoff on Wrestling will be WWE Hall of Famer “Mean” Gene Okerlund. The episode will drop tomorrow night around 6 pm CST.
Eric Bischoff Announces “Mean” Gene Okerlund & Extended Mail Bag Segment For Podcast This Wednesday
EB: Dusty would try new things. Dusty would look at things in different ways. He had a bigger, broader vision than the traditional paint by numbers approach. I don’t mean to be disparaging to guys like Ole Anderson but guys that were more traditional studio wrestling guys. I can see why Dusty looked at you and went, “OH MAN!” I can see why Dusty looked at you and said, “I see money here. I see it.” Did you find Dusty to be more innovative than other people that you had worked with?
LL: Yes, extremely creative. A real visionary. Even tho he personally in the ring was the “Son of The Plumber” and had a real southern appeal Dusty was really working hard at being a very progressive booker. He wanted to expand. We were going to Chicago and all of these new markets. He really wanted to take WCW out of the southern kind of mold we were in and really make it national and hopefully international. He definitely had that vision that I greatly admired. At the time in WCW a lot of the guys were frustrated because we were always that number two company behind WWF with Hogan, Macho and all those guys. We wanted to move up and challenge them and Dusty definitely saw that with the vehicle we had with Turner that we could possibly, maybe really challenge them. We didn’t while I was there at WCW at the time but he definitely had that vision for the company. Which is remarkable.
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This past week’s episode of Bischoff on Wrestling started with Eric talking about WWE’s recent decline in ratings and what he thinks may be attributing to it.
Eric then welcomed back his guest for the week former WWE & WCW Superstar Lex Luger! During his return appearance Lex and Eric speak candidly about:
- The amazingly close Super Bowl LI between the Patriots and the Falcons
- Lex originally joining the NWA/WCW and immediately working with The 4 Horseman
- Ted Turner’s enthusiasm for pro wrestling
- Dusty Rhodes as the first WCW booker Lex worked with
- Dusty’s booking style
- Whether or not there was backlash to Lex early on getting pushed to the top
- How their respective attitudes could have been mistaken for arrogance
- Their memories of WCW’s Jim Herd and Kip Fry
- Dirt sheets causing problems for Turner Broadcasting
- A failed meeting Turner tried to have with dirt sheet writers at the time
- Lex’s original departure from WCW for the WBF and eventually the WWF
- Lex managing to negotiate keeping the Lex Luger name with Vince McMahon
- Lex’s friendship with Sting
- Their familiarity with one another before meeting in WCW
- Sting as an advocate for the both of them
- The NWO and Wolfpack
- Lex beating Hulk Hogan for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship on Nitro
- How Lex’s affair with Miss Elizabeth started
- Lex’s relationship with Randy Savage
- How Lex was introduced to drugs
- Why he and Elizabeth did drugs together
- The drug epidemic in the USA
- The night Elizabeth passed away
- Lex contemplating suicide before he found religion
- WWE evolving their Wellness Policy
- How he has turned his life around
- More…
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