The latest episode of former WCW President Eric Bischoff’s podcast Bischoff on Wrestling was released just now!
You can find a portion of Eric’s comments transcribed below.
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On Shane McMahon’s initial WWE exit and the WWE Network launching in Japan:
EB: When Shane left WWE he left under, I think, contentious circumstances. I don’t think it was like people were throwing him going away parties or anything like that. I think there was some tension in the family and it was a tough decision. I wasn’t there, I haven’t talked to Shane about it but I have talked to people that were close to Shane at that time and were there. So I have a little bit of a second or third hand perspective. I was kind of shocked that Shane left but I understood as well having worked with Shane and having seen the inner workings from my perspective backstage. I wondered when Shane made that move to China initially and I heard about the people he was working with… I kind of wondered if it wasn’t a well thought out plan more than anything else. If he was going to leave the company at least he was going to go and learn, make in-roads and build out his Chinese rolodex so to speak so that he could bring assets to WWE. I don’t know if it was by design or coincidence but clearly WWE is planting a major flag in a very, very important market. Doing business in China is incredibly difficult because you’re not generally just doing business with companies. You are doing business with the government. It’s a communist government at that. Hats off to them.
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This week’s BoW Overrun features Eric and I taking an over hour long retrospective look at the 1996 WCW Road Wild PPV.
On this week’s Bischoff on Wrestling Eric and Nick start off by discussing the new movie Detroit and Eric’s memories of growing up in the Detroit during the 1967 riots.
They then chat a few of the pro wrestling news headlines from the past week.
Including:
- The WWE Network expanding into China
- Disney making a big investment into the development company for the WWE Network, BAMTech
- Jon Jones teasing that he may be at SummerSlam
- What affect some of UFC’s latest moves have on their overall success
- WWE & GFW getting assigned trademark attorneys in their respective cases with Matt Hardy
- WWE closely protecting the outcome of the RAW SummerSlam Fatal 4-Way main event
This week’s episode wraps up with Nick asking Eric a variety of questions from the #BischoffOnWrestling mailbag. Some of the topics discussed include:
- How Eric would book a Chris Jericho return
- Taking spears from Goldberg vs Edge
- What tea brand Eric is going crazy for
- Eric’s memories of being in the ring with Vince McMahon and Paul Heyman at the initial WWE Draft
- What it was like for Eric to kiss Miss Elizabeth in front of Macho Man
- TNA’s strategy when they went head to head with WWE on Monday nights
