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Eric Bischoff Recalls His Nerve-Wracking ’97 Match w/ Larry Zbyszko; Says He’d Have Preferred A Bar Fight

The latest episode of former WCW President Eric Bischoff’s podcast Bischoff on Wrestling was released this past Wednesday.

You can find a portion of Eric’s comments regarding the following #BischoffOnWrestling fan submitted question 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: It was fun. It was nerve-wracking for me. I think that might have been one of my first matches. I didn’t really have matches and I don’t consider what I did to be “matches” although that one probably looked more like a match more than anything else I had done up until that point or after. It was a lot of fun. The only nerve wracking part for me was two things. One, my left knee was fractured. I had fractured it working out and training with Larry in the ring. So, I had a vertical fracture in my left kneecap. My stability was not what I was hoping it would be and I didn’t get to train the way I wanted to train and all that kind of stuff. I was limited and disappointed in that. The second thing is something people will have a hard time believing or understanding or probably both. I was/am pretty good at kicking people in the head and knocking them out or kicking them in the body and really hurting them. I really sucked at making it look like I was kicking him in the head or the body and making that look good. I just wasn’t good at that. That’s the art of being in the ring that I didn’t have. If it had been a bar fight I would have been fine with that but to get in there and work a kick… it’s hard. Kicks are hard to work because you have to put so much energy and speed in order to get them where they need to be to make them look halfway decent. There is a fair amount of velocity and if you aren’t really, really, really good at working it and having practiced that for a long time you can hurt somebody. I don’t like hurting people unless it’s my intention. I don’t like to hurt people by accident. It was awkward for those two reasons but it was fun. Clearly, it was Washington, DC with a hot crowd at a big event. It was really fun.

Bischoff on Wrestling will be presenting a LIVE, CALL-IN show this Wednesday at 3 pm CST to celebrate it’s one-year anniversary. The full details about where to tune in and what number to call will be released this Monday night on WrestleZone an hour before RAW.

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This week’s episode of Bischoff on Wrestling features Eric and Nick talking about a few of the pro wrestling news headlines from the past week. Including:

  • Dixie Carter’s WWE debut as part of the WWE:24 special about Kurt Angle
  • Whether Eric thinks Dixie Carter should be used as an on-screen WWE character
  • Brock Lesnar defeating Samoa Joe and Joe’s position in WWE
  • AJ Styles United States Championship win over Kevin Owens at the WWE Live event at Madison Square Garden
  • Austin Aries’s WWE release
  • Whether Aries was difficult to work with in TNA
  • The Wall Street Journal report about WWE’s revenue and TV rights renewels
  • The leak of 3 million WWE Universe users private information
  • Alberto Del Rio’s GFW suspension in the wake of his domestic abuse investigations

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:

  • Eric’s favorite concert live
  • How to get ahold of Buffalo Bill Cody beer
  • Whether Nitro’s success helped The Shawshank Redemption find it’s cult fanbase
  • How Bret Hart and Eric compare as podcast hosts
  • His match with Larry Zbyszko at the 1997 Starrcade for control of Nitro
  • What Sonny Onoo did with all those disposable camera photos
  • Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels feud
  • More…

You can find a special Bischoff on Wrestling Overrun on IRWNetwork.com featuring Eric chatting with former ECW World Champion Shane Douglas embedded below:

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