The latest episode of former WCW President Eric Bischoff’s podcast Bischoff on Wrestling was released earlier tonight and features former WCW & WWE Superstar Lex Luger return with an over two hour long interview.
You can find some of Eric and Lex’s comments transcribed below.
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On Eric’s reaction to Sting saying he should bring Lex in to WCW:
EB: Sting comes to me one day and says, “Hey Eric, you really need to think about or at least consider bringing Lex back.” My reaction was, “Eh, why? He’s not exactly burning down buildings in WWF.”
LL: Right.
EB: “He’s kind of an arrogant guy.”
LL: Uh huh.
EB: “It’s not necessarily something that’s going to fit in to this new box we are creating. Why would I do that?” Sting was such an advocate for you. He was so passionate about you because he knew you.
On how Sting sold Lex on coming back to work for Eric and WCW:
LL: I will say that you mentioned Sting as an advocate for me. Sting was a huge advocate for you before we ever met. He’d say, “I know he’s an announcer and everything but this Eric guy… there’s something special about this guy.” I could tell that he thought a lot of you and the direction you were headed with the company and the job you were doing. Me having the relationship I had with Sting, I went in to the meeting with an open mind. I didn’t think of you as the peon announcer I knew because Sting had already said that you treated him fairly. He had nothing but good things to say about you.
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This week’s episode of Bischoff on Wrestling starts with Eric talking about WWE’s recent decline in ratings and what he thinks may be attributing to it.
Eric then welcomes back his guest for the week former WWE & WCW Superstar Lex Luger! During his return appearance Lex and Eric speak candidly about:
- The amazingly close Super Bowl LI between the Patriots and the Falcons
- Lex originally joining the NWA/WCW and immediately working with The 4 Horseman
- Ted Turner’s enthusiasm for pro wrestling
- Dusty Rhodes as the first WCW booker Lex worked with
- Dusty’s booking style
- Whether or not there was backlash to Lex early on getting pushed to the top
- How their respective attitudes could have been mistaken for arrogance
- Their memories of WCW’s Jim Herd and Kip Fry
- Dirt sheets causing problems for Turner Broadcasting
- A failed meeting Turner tried to have with dirt sheet writers at the time
- Lex’s original departure from WCW for the WBF and eventually the WWF
- Lex managing to negotiate keeping the Lex Luger name with Vince McMahon
- Lex’s friendship with Sting
- Their familiarity with one another before meeting in WCW
- Sting as an advocate for the both of them
- The NWO and Wolfpack
- Lex beating Hulk Hogan for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship on Nitro
- How Lex’s affair with Miss Elizabeth started
- Lex’s relationship with Randy Savage
- How Lex was introduced to drugs
- Why he and Elizabeth did drugs together
- The drug epidemic in the USA
- The night Elizabeth passed away
- Lex contemplating suicide before he found religion
- WWE evolving their Wellness Policy
- How he has turned his life around
- More…
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