The latest episode of former WCW President Eric Bischoff’s podcast Bischoff on Wrestling was released this past Wednesday!
You can find a portion of Eric’s comments to the following #BischoffOnWrestling submitted question transcribed below. You can use that hashtag on Twitter to submit your own question for Eric to answer on the show:
#BischoffOnWrestling if Eric was in charge of the WWE what is one thing he would change?
— Chad Evans (@wargamer1973) July 11, 2017
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: The only thing for me and this is just preference, it’s just taste, I would endeavor to produce my shows in a way, particularly Monday Night RAW, in a way that just had a little bit more grit. It was a little less polished. I would work pretty hard, pretty consistently, to try to create the impression and try to build the anticipation with the audience that anything could happen. It doesn’t mean that anything can happen on every episode because you can’t sustain that. If you create that feeling, subliminal as it may be sometimes, that you can’t afford to miss an episode because there is a chance something crazy could happen and you don’t want to miss out on that. If you can establish that consistently with the audience and then deliver on it as often as possible that’s when you create that kind of water cooler type buzz that people used to have. Now it’s social media chatter after the show. Buzz is buzz wherever it is. That’s how you create it. That’s how you create must see TV is by creating that relationship with the audience where they believe your product could have something actually occur that they never would have anticipated. Right now to me, because of my taste, the WWE is such a polished and perfect production that I lose that sense that anything can happen because they won’t let it. If they do create it it’s so perfectly and flawlessly executed that it doesn’t feel like something that wasn’t supposed to happen.
This week’s Bischoff on Wrestling kicks off with Eric and Nick discussing a few of the pro wrestling news headlines from the past week.
Including:
- The rumored reason why UFC wants to get Brock Lesnar for another fight
- Who UFC supposedly would like to face Lesnar next
- The struggle UFC has making new stars
- Jinder Mahal’s Punjabi Prison win
- John Cena and Rusev’s use of the American flag in their Flag Match
- Kevin Owens and AJ Styles passing the US Championship back and forth
- Mark Henry announcing his in-ring retirement
- More…
Eric then moves on to answer questions from the #BischoffOnWrestling mailbag regarding:
- What one thing he would change if he was in charge of WWE
- If the WCW announcers were told about Hulk Hogan being the NWO’s third man before he revealed himself
- His favorite pre-NWO WCW segment
- Why Hulk Hogan never had a rematch with Goldberg for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship
- What Eric learned about business while working for Vince McMahon and WWE
- What politician Eric would have liked to have taken his role as RAW GM when he stepped down in 2005
- If he likes the WWE 24 format
- If he ever tried to sign Kurt Angle to WCW
- Other than the Hulk Hogan turn what segment he felt he was a part of in WCW that got the most heat
- If the Attitude Era would have happened without the NWO
- What pro wrestling companies need to do these days to compete with WWE
- If Dave Meltzer’s rating system is good for pro wrestling
- More…
You can find a special Bischoff on Wrestling Overrun on IRWNetwork.com featuring an in-depth review of Capitol Wrestling episode 16 which can also be found on IRW. Here are a couple preview notes for the episode:
- With a 6’8 297 3/4lbs “Endgame” awaiting, can Sonny Kiss overcome the bearded badass, Ken Dixon?
- In six man tag team action the newly formed Danger Family look to assert their dominance against the ever popular Perfect Strangers and a mystery partner
- And in our main event, in a rematch from the very first episode of Capitol Wrestling, we see Jeff Cannonball look for revenge against John Kermon
Eric and Nick also take some time at the end of the Overrun to touch on a couple of the top American political headlines:
