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Eric Bischoff Says That Mayweather v McGregor Has ‘Jumped The Shark’ & That Fans Aren’t As Interested

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 transcribed below.

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On the hype around Floyd Mayweather vs Conor McGregor:

EB: My opinion is they jumped the shark. The pre-fight hype tour went so far over the line that is became obvious. It’s like bad sports entertainment. It’s not even as good as WWE would have done it. Vince McMahon would have done a much better job. I would have done a much better job quite frankly of positioning McGregor and Mayweather in that hype tour because they went so far with it that it became obvious what they were doing. It became unbelievable. Now it’s just a spectacle to me. I’m still going to watch, by the way, but they had me, they really had me, all the way up to that hype tour. They crossed the line with the racial stuff and when they were on the same stage taking it to the level they took it to without something breaking down and happening I went, “Eh, bullshit.” I’m still going to watch but I am not nearly as excited about it as I was before the pre-fight hype tour.

Eric has officially launched his IRW Network premium channel for only $3.99/month!

Over the next few weeks more premium channels will be rolled out on IRW. If you’d like subscribe to Eric’s IRW channel and get access to the BoW Overrun as well as more exclusive Bischoff content click HERE.

This week’s BoW Overrun features Eric and I taking an over hour long retrospective look at the 1996 WCW Road Wild PPV.

Eric Bischoff On Latest Brock To UFC Report, Brock’s Drawing Power, UFC’s Issue Creating New Stars, More

On this week’s Bischoff on Wrestling Eric and Nick start off by discussing the new movie Detroit and Eric’s memories of growing up in the Detroit during the 1967 riots.

They then chat a few of the pro wrestling news headlines from the past week.

Including:

  • The WWE Network expanding into China
  • Disney making a big investment into the development company for the WWE Network, BAMTech
  • Jon Jones teasing that he may be at SummerSlam
  • What affect some of UFC’s latest moves have on their overall success
  • WWE & GFW getting assigned trademark attorneys in their respective cases with Matt Hardy
  • WWE closely protecting the outcome of the RAW SummerSlam Fatal 4-Way main event

This week’s episode wraps up with Nick asking Eric a variety of questions from the #BischoffOnWrestling mailbag. Some of the topics discussed include:

  • How Eric would book a Chris Jericho return
  • Taking spears from Goldberg vs Edge
  • What tea brand Eric is going crazy for
  • Eric’s memories of being in the ring with Vince McMahon and Paul Heyman at the initial WWE Draft
  • What it was like for Eric to kiss Miss Elizabeth in front of Macho Man
  • TNA’s strategy when they went head to head with WWE on Monday nights

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