This WrestleZone Radio exclusive features Nick Hausman interviewing former WCW President Eric Bischoff.
You can find more info about the interview as well as some transcribed quotes from it below.
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On if he feels like now is a real boom period for women’s wrestling in WWE:
EB: It sure does. When I was actually involved with WWE as a talent women were kind of… I don’t want to say “eye candy”, that’s the wrong way to say it… they were ancillary. They were there. Everybody knew them. They got a reaction. They were fun to watch. They were hot. They were sexy. That’s the way they were used at the time by the WWE for the most part. They had a role. That had a place. I think they have now gotten away from that presentation of women’s wrestling and women as characters. Now they are representing them as still beautiful but highly athletic and skilled women. Before it was a small handful of women that were skilled. The majority were there because they were good actresses and good to look at. They would play the role and do what was asked of them. I think it’s just changed now. It just more athletic.
On if he could see a WWE Women’s Championship match headline a WWE Network special in the next year:
EB: No, I don’t. That’s not because of the talent. It’s just the composition of the audience. When your audience composition is 60/40. The USA Network represents a 60% male and 40% female viewership. If you are going to put a woman’s match in a main event at something like WrestleMania those women better be really, really embraced by the audience. That takes time. Let’s go back to something I’ve said so many times in these interviews. Name somebody other than The Rock or Bill Goldberg that has been in the business for less than ten years that has been able to ascend to that WrestleMania star status. You can’t. You can’t name one. If they did, they did it once.
Some of the topics of discussion include:
- Damien Sandow being released by WWE
- The similarities between Sandow leaving WWE and Chris Jericho leaving WCW
- The balance Eric found in WCW between Cruiserweights and Heavyweights
- WWE’s decision to choose the Superstars they want to get over as opposed to pushing the Superstars that the fans seem to be most vocal for
- The mixed signal it sends to the casual fan when they see the most popular WWE Superstars getting booed
- AJ Styles’ push so far in WWE and whether WWE should be doing more for him
- If the WWE Women’s Championship could be defended in a WWE PPV Main Event in the next year
- Shane & Stephanie co-running Monday Night RAW together
- The possibility of Donald Trump making an appearance on WWE TV now that he seems to have clinched the Republican nomination
- The rumors that are swirling about the current state of TNA and what he thinks of the reports
- TNA talent that has gotten a second life in NXT
- Whether AJ Styles has a shot at beating Roman Reigns at Extreme Rules
- How Hulk Hogan is doing right now while he awaits to go back to trial with Gawker
- What to expect from his upcoming WWE DVD
- More…
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