The latest episode of former WCW President Eric Bischoff’s podcast Bischoff on Wrestling was released just now!
You can find a portion of Eric’s comments regarding Alberto El Patron’s GFW suspension and Jeff Jarrett’s comments regarding it on the GFW Media Call earlier transcribed below.
Eric’s full, in-depth comments can be heard in the embedded audio player at the top of the post.
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EB: Did anybody ask him if he has been suspended with or without pay?
NH: That question was not asked.
EB: (Laughs) That would have been the first question I would have asked earlier today if I had been on that conference call. Secondly, I applaud TNA-Anthem-Impact-Global Force if they indeed suspended him without pay because I didn’t expect that quite honestly. I would have expected them to punt and wait for the investigation to conclude or some other event before they made a decision. If they suspended him without pay I applaud them. If they suspended him without pay, let’s just agree that that’s what they did for the sake of conversation, then there is no reason that they couldn’t strip him of the belt. Then it doesn’t matter what happens on TV because no one thinks that show is live anyway. It is what it is. It’s no different than someone having an unfortunate accident. Everybody knows, it’s no secret, you’ve acknowledged it on a conference call. They should have stripped the title from him and then built that into a storyline. Then the 28 weeks or whatever of TV they’ve shot are over with, you have vacant title and he can come back and fight for it if they decide to bring him back. Or not, if they don’t. Half measures and using half measures and creative and all these weird reasons why you can’t do something I think is bullshit. If their balls were big enough to suspend him without pay then they should have gone all the way with it and made a statement.
This week’s episode of Bischoff on Wrestling features Eric and Nick talking about a few of the pro wrestling news headlines from the past week. Including:
- Dixie Carter’s WWE debut as part of the WWE:24 special about Kurt Angle
- Whether Eric thinks Dixie Carter should be used as an on-screen WWE character
- Brock Lesnar defeating Samoa Joe and Joe’s position in WWE
- AJ Styles United States Championship win over Kevin Owens at the WWE Live event at Madison Square Garden
- Austin Aries’s WWE release
- Whether Aries was difficult to work with in TNA
- The Wall Street Journal report about WWE’s revenue and TV rights renewels
- The leak of 3 million WWE Universe users private information
- Alberto Del Rio’s GFW suspension in the wake of his domestic abuse investigations
Eric also takes some time at the end of the show to answer a slew of fan questions. Some of the topics that Eric addresses in the #BischoffOnWrestling mailbag are:
- Eric’s favorite concert live
- How to get ahold of Buffalo Bill Cody beer
- Whether Nitro’s success helped The Shawshank Redemption find it’s cult fanbase
- How Bret Hart and Eric compare as podcast hosts
- His match with Larry Zbyszko at the 1997 Starrcade for control of Nitro
- What Sonny Onoo did with all those disposable camera photos
- Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels feud
- More…
You can find a special Bischoff on Wrestling Overrun on IRWNetwork.com featuring Eric chatting with former ECW World Champion Shane Douglas embedded below:
