Shawn Michaels Updates Eric Bischoff On His WWE Performance Center Status, "My Biggest Challenge Is..."

The latest episode of former WCW President Eric Bischoff’s podcast Bischoff on Wrestling was released this past Wednesday and featured WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels!

A brand new episode will be released next Wednesday and, as announced at the end of this week’s show, his guest will be WWE Hall of Famer Jake “The Snake” Roberts. Roberts will be returning for the second part of his interview which began a few shows ago.

You can find some of Eric and Shawn’s comments from the latest episode transcribed below.

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EB: From what I understand you’re working with some of the WWE talent down in the training center. Is that correct?

SM: Yeah. I’ve been going down there on a fairly regular basis. It’s something that going forward I’d like to continue to do. I think we are sort of getting close to that finalization stage where I can say, “Yes! I am a regular at the performance center!” (Laughs) I guess that’s a long answer but for the most part, yes. I’m down there on a pretty regular basis.

EB: Do you get as much joy getting to teach the art as you do performing the art?

SM: You know what? I do. I think the thing that I have difficulty doing, honestly, is verbalizing it. I worry. It’s one of the reasons I said in the beginning of this. I was sort of joking about being intimidated by you but you’re a very smart guy. You’re a bright man. You know more than just “wrestling”. You know what I mean? Honestly, that’s my one thing. That’s the one thing I do really well but a lot of stuff came naturally to me. I wrestled more with my heart than I did with my brain. Sometimes it’s hard to properly convey what it is you’re actually feeling in words. Going forward I’ve found that’s sort of my biggest challenge is just getting people to feel like you do about something. I don’t know if it’s teachable.

In the full discussion Shawn goes in to even more detail about his work at the WWE Performance Center and Eric gives him a prediction about it as well. You can listen to it in the embedded audio player at the top of the post.

This week’s episode of Bischoff on Wrestling started with Eric giving his take on a couple of stories from around the business of pro wrestling from this past week including:

Christopher Daniels winning the ROH Championship
Impact Wrestling sending cable providers legal letters threatening to sue if they air the Broken Hardys on ROH’s PPV
WWE’s very public release of Jack Swagger
The Big Show being entered in the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal and having his match with Shaq seemingly called off
Kane taking time away from WWE to prepare for a Knox County mayoral run in 2018
Hulk opening a new Hogan Beach Shop WM33 weekend and whether Eric thinks he’ll be at WrestleMania
More…

Eric then welcomed his guest for this week WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels! During his appearance the two discuss:

Shawn’s upcoming Kliq reunion during WrestleMania 33 weekend
Shawn and Eric getting to know each other after their time in WWE together
Shawn and Marty Jannetty headlining the first pro wrestling event that Eric ever promoted
Shawn’s relationship with Bret Hart these days
Why Shawn thinks he and Bret didn’t see eye to eye back in the day
The ring being a sacred place for pro wrestlers
The reasons Hall and Nash left WWE for WCW
Shawn feeling dependent on his friends like Hall and Nash back in the day
Shawn’s memories of the backstage atmosphere in WWE during the Monday Night War
Whether there was extra pressure on Shawn to perform due to his relationship with Hall and Nash and their WCW presence
The rumors that Shawn and Eric talked about bringing Shawn to WCW during the Monday Night War
Chance meetings the two have had in the past
Shawn’s relationship with Ric Flair
What Shawn is doing with WWE Developmental at the moment
Eric’s bold prediction about Shawn’s future
Their mutual love of hunting
How everything changed for Shawn in 1997
More…