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Eric Bischoff Comments On The Passing Of Matt ‘Rosey’ Anoa’i; Recalls His Last Encounter With Him

The latest episode of former WCW President Eric Bischoff’s podcast Bischoff on Wrestling was released this past Wednesday! A brand new episode will be released next Wednesday.

You can find some of Eric’s comments from it transcribed below.

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On the passing of Matt “Rosey” Anoa’i:

EB: It’s always kind of sobering. It makes you realize how precious time is. When it’s someone that you worked with, I don’t want to suggest that I got to know Matt very well. I didn’t. I worked with him a lot. I enjoyed working with him. I felt like I knew him professionally at least as a human being but we weren’t close friends. I was taken by it because one of the things I did recognize working with him was that he was just a kind and gentle person. He was just a classy, gentle guy. That is such the opposite of the character that he portrayed which is not unusual in our industry. It really took me. I remember the last time I saw him we did a personal appearance together about a year and a half or two years ago. We rode in a car together and we didn’t talk about our experiences in WWE together. We didn’t talk about the industry. We talked about our families. That was the most important thing to him. That’s when I felt I really got to know Matt more in a couple of hours in a personal appearance than I did during the whole time I worked with him in WWE. We talked about what was important to us on a personal level. I was very sad and my thoughts go out to his entire family.

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This week’s episode of Bischoff on Wrestling features Eric and Nick chatting about a variety of topics for over an hour this week with no guest. Some of the topics of conversation include:

  • The passing of Matt “Rosey” Anoa’i
  • The Rock’s Fate Of The Furious shattering box office records
  • YouTube dropping monetization for pro wrestling content
  • What he and Jim Cornette bonded over on Table For 3
  • WWE losing it’s television deal in the Philippines
  • Impact announcing a partnership with Triple A
  • Jinder Mahal’s new WWE push and what it means for their Indian expansion
  • The talk of WWE buying ROH being considered “dead”
  • More

This episode also features an expanded #BischoffOnWrestling mailbag segment featuring Eric talking about:

  • What Lacey Von Erich was like to work with
  • Who decides on who inducts people into the WWE Hall of Fame
  • If Matt Hardy should bring his broken character to WWE
  • THE DUMBEST QUESTION EVER
  • What happens at sports entertainment pre and post-production meetings
  • If everybody should stop blaming JBL until Mauro comments
  • Whether sports entertainment is more dangerous now than 20 minutes ago
  • The overuse of false finishes
  • The appropriate response to someone who thinks that Demolition were better than Road Warriors
  • How social media would have affected WCW
  • The differences between the WCW and WWE rings
  • More

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