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 Samoa Joe’s upcoming match with Brock Lesnar for the WWE Universal Championship from the latest episode 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: When I’ve worked with people on the creative side of things I tell them, “This is more of an art than it is a science.” While there is a WWE formula what it really comes down to is that you’ve got to keep an open enough mind to feel what the audience is reacting to. If you get so committed to a certain direction and outcome and if you see SummerSlam at the end of your creative horizon. If you see the outcome that you have in mind for SummerSlam and come hell or high water you’re going to get to that destination what you are probably going to miss along the way is great opportunities. If you’re so focused on one outcome you don’t see the potential of others and perhaps. I hope for Joe’s sake this is one of those situations where regardless of whatever they thought they were going to do with Braun or Roman, not to take anything away from both of those guys because I am a big fan of both, if all of a sudden Samoa Joe comes from out of left field even if he was just designed to be a stepping stone but the audience is reacting to it then… damn son! Shift gears. Take that exit. See what’s on the other side of it because it might be better than the original destination.
This week’s episode of Bischoff on Wrestling features Eric and Nick talking about a wide variety of pro wrestling news headlines from the past week. Including:
- Vince Russo’s retraining order against Jim Cornette
- Samoa Joe choking out Brock Lesnar on RAW
- Cody Rhodes as the new ROH World Champion
- WrestleCircus and EVOLVE’s Gabe Sapolsky going after each other on social media
- WWE’s new show in India “WWE Sunday Dhamaal”
- Mauro Ranallo’s return to WWE commentary
- More…
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:
- Which pro wrestling funerals Eric has attended
- The first match Eric did play by play for
- Who does the podcast intro
- What the business impact of WWE moving RAW and Smackdown to the WWE Network would be
- Whose idea it was for the “I’m Back” entrance theme
- The movie Top Gun and it’s upcoming sequel
- If there is anywhere to get a transcript of the BoW episodes
- What fans can do to get unblocked by Eric
- If unique viewers of the instant-replay of Nitro factored into the ratings at all
- Josh Matthews as an announcer
- Who Vince will sell or hand the company over to when the time is right
You can find a special Bischoff on Wrestling Overrun on IRWNetwork.com featuring Eric chatting with the Executive Producer of Capitol Wrestling, Matthew Ryan. Matt chats candidly with Eric about the history of the company, what sets it apart, how to be different in a cluttered independent wrestling scene and more…
