The latest episode of former WCW President Eric Bischoff’s podcast Bischoff on Wrestling Overrun was just released via the BoW general podcast feed. It features Eric chatting with the Executive Producer of Capitol Wrestling, Matthew Ryan.
You can find a portion of Eric and Matt’s comments transcribed below.
Their full, in-depth comments can be heard in the embedded audio player at the top of the post.
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MR: I loved watching WCW. The fact I am talking to Eric Bischoff right now or that I’ve gotten to call a match with Tony Schivone two weeks ago… the fact I am doing any of this boggles my f*cking mind. I want to enjoy the fact I am in professional wrestling. I don’t want to hate it.
EB: All I can say to you in terms of advice is: Never lost that. Never lose that. To this day when people ask me, “What’s the greatest memory you have? What stands out the most?” It’s actually the first day I worked for Verne Gagne in the AWA. I sat in the chair and I thought, “Oh my God, I’m making six hundred dollars a week,” which at the time was a lot of money for me, “I’m making six hundred dollars a week in the PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING BUSINESS?!” I lived off that high for two years. Then I realized after having two kids that six hundred dollars a week wasn’t that much money. It didn’t tho because I was still living off that high. Same thing happened when I got to WCW. Once you lose that passion, or that element of passion, the rest becomes work and the product will suffer. Hang on to that for as long as you can and the rest will take care of itself.
You can find the full archives, as well as the latest episodes, of Capitol Wrestling on Eric Bischoff’s IRWNetwork.com.
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Last 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
