The latest episode of former WCW President Eric Bischoff’s podcast Bischoff on Wrestling was released just now!
You can find some of Eric’s comments from it transcribed below.
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On YouTube’s decision to no longer monetize pro wrestling content and how his new site IRWNetwork.com can help those affected:
EB: It’s unfortunate for content providers on YouTube. Those that distribute pro wrestling related content on it. They’ve just had the door slammed in their face. They’ve been shut down. They no longer get to participate in the revenue that’s created with the advertising on YouTube. For whatever reason YouTube has decided that professional wrestling content is persona non-grata and they don’t want to support it. There’s a lot of great professional wrestling content on YouTube. I posted a couple tweets and I got hammered by content providers from all over the world who are looking for an alternative and want to put their content out and hopefully be able to make money off their content and pay their bills and feed their families. The timing is in one sense horribly unfortunate for those people who spent years trying to figure out how to make money creating pro wrestling content for YouTube. For us (IRW) it’s opportunistic because we are going to be able to provide a platform that gives these people an opportunity to pay their bills and feed their families. I’m looking forward to it.
If you have been affected by YouTube’s decision to no longer monetize your pro wrestling content and are interested in launching a channel with IRW please send a DM to @IRWNet on Twitter.
This week’s episode of Bischoff on Wrestling features Eric and Nick chatting about a variety of topics for over an hour this week with no guest. Some of the topics of conversation include:
- The passing of Matt “Rosey” Anoa’i
- The Rock’s Fate Of The Furious shattering box office records
- YouTube dropping monetization for pro wrestling content
- What he and Jim Cornette bonded over on Table For 3
- WWE losing it’s television deal in the Philippines
- Impact announcing a partnership with Triple A
- Jinder Mahal’s new WWE push and what it means for their Indian expansion
- The talk of WWE buying ROH being considered “dead”
- More
This episode also features an expanded #BischoffOnWrestling mailbag segment featuring Eric talking about:
- What Lacey Von Erich was like to work with
- Who decides on who inducts people into the WWE Hall of Fame
- If Matt Hardy should bring his broken character to WWE
- THE DUMBEST QUESTION EVER
- What happens at sports entertainment pre and post-production meetings
- If everybody should stop blaming JBL until Mauro comments
- Whether sports entertainment is more dangerous now than 20 minutes ago
- The overuse of false finishes
- The appropriate response to someone who thinks that Demolition were better than Road Warriors
- How social media would have affected WCW
- The differences between the WCW and WWE rings
- More
