Madusa To Eric Bischoff, “Do You Know What I Went Through?”, Talks Her 20+ Year Fallout With WWE and Says WCW Angle “Ruined Her”

The latest episode of Eric Bischoff’s new weekly podcast Bischoff on Wrestling is now available on iTunes & PodcastArena.com! A new episode will be available every Wednesday night.

This week’s episode features the second half of Eric’s recent interview with WWE Hall of Famer Alundra Blayze (aka Madusa).

Eric will be revealing his next HUGE guest on his Twitter account this Friday.  

Some of Eric and Alundra’s comments have been transcribed below.

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On what Alundra’s relationship with WWE was like after infamously dropping the WWE Women’s Championship in a trashcan on WCW Monday Nitro:

EB: Now that I’ve gotten to learn and spend some time with the folks at WWE. I’ve become friends with not a lot of them but a few of them are close friends of mine. When you hear it from their side of the story… it was a pretty crappy thing to do. It really was but if I had to do it all over I would.

AB: What did you hear? Do you know what I went through, Eric? I went through crap. That was the defining moment for everybody for twenty years. I had to live with that. It ruined me. Basically. I never did an interview for wrestling or went to a wrestling signing. This is the second or third podcast that I’ve ever done since I retired. I’ve only done two signings since I retired. That’s it. That’s it. I’m doing my third one in my whole retirement since 2001 in November. Besides AXXESS and WrestleMania. I remember calling Vince’s office because Monster Jam was going to put together a video about Madusa and her Monster Truck. So I called up there, I’ll never forget this, I’ve never shared this with anybody. I’ll never forget calling up there and saying, “Hi,” and I’m speaking with Vince’s secretary at the time. I said, “This is Deborah. Do you think Vince would mind if I could get some copies of a video for us to use at Monster Jam.” Boy, she laid in to me like you wouldn’t believe. I hung up that phone in tears. I thought, “Is that what everyone thinks?” I didn’t know anyone thought about me that way. That was my first rude awakening. “How dare you! Vince is so taken aback and so hurt by what YOU did!” I’m like, “(crying) But I was told I was under contract and ahhhhhhh…” You know? I was like, “What the frick just happened?” Never did I ever feel like you owed me something by what you did. Because I knew that you didn’t know exactly what the outcome was going to be. You didn’t know what the outcome was going to be. I knew that you knew that it was going to have an impact but I truly want to believe, in my own mind whether it’s true or not, that you had my back all along and stuck up for me and that’s what I’m going to believe until my grave.

Co-host Nick Hausman starts the show by announcing that due to his travels to the UK Eric was unable to record his weekly thoughts on the business of professional wrestling. Nick then announces that Eric will return next week with his thoughts on WWE SummerSlam and will be joined by a HUGE special guest.

After running through the general show intro announcement Nick then airs the second half of Eric’s interview with WWE Hall of Famer Alundra Blayze (aka Madusa). During the second half of their interview they discuss:

  • How Alundra got involved as a monster truck driver for Monster Jam
  • Alundra being at a point in her life where she wants to start her own women’s revolution
  • Alundra’s reaction when JJ Dillon called and informed her she was fired by WWE in the 90’s
  • The funny story about Alundra negotiating her contract with Eric to join WCW
  • Eric convincing Alundra (as Madusa) to drop the WWE Women’s Championship in a trash can on an episode of WCW Monday Nitro
  • Alundra’s struggles after being blackballed by the WWE for over twenty years over the incident
  • Whether or not Eric and Alundra would do it again
  • How much it meant to Alundra for WWE to reach out to her to inducted in to the WWE Hall of Fame
  • More…

Nick then finishes the show by playing an unaired recording featuring he and Eric discussing the debut episode of WCW Monday Nitro. Including discussion about:

  • Eric’s meeting with Ted Turner that led to the Monday Night WAR
  • The differences and similarities between Vince McMahon and Ted Turner
  • What Eric wanted to accomplish with WCW Monday Nitro
  • Choosing the Mall of America as the location for the first show
  • His use of cruiserweights
  • Hulk Hogan’s Pasta-mania restaurant chain
  • Getting roughly confront by Scott Norton at ring side
  • The lengths Eric had to go through to hide Lex Luger and keep his debut a surprise
  • Working with Ric Flair and Sting
  • Hulk Hogan and Big Bubba in the main event
  • More…

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