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Eric Bischoff Gives His Take On Why Kurt Angle Works As A Great RAW GM; Rumors He Was Up For The Role



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 tomorrow.

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

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EB: It was funny, while I was at WrestleMania everyone knew that Mick Foley was no longer going to be RAW General Manager. The speculation was that Kurt Angle and myself were the two likely candidates. I was there for the WWE Hall of Fame so everybody assumed. I must have signed 3,000 autographs that weekend and about 1,500 of those 3,000 asked me if I was going to be the RAW General Manager. When I told them, “No,” they winked at me and said, “Ok, we’ll see you Monday night!” (Laughs) If anybody would have gauged me in a conversation I firmly believe that Kurt was the best choice. I’ll tell you why, in that role I lasted way longer than I thought I would. To be honest I didn’t think I’d last six months or a year. I thought it would be a very short term position for me. The fact I lasted two or three or four year, I don’t even remember, was a shock to me. The thing that makes that General Manager role so hard for someone like me or Mick or even Teddy Long, as great as he was, is that you can only go so long as a figure that can’t physically back it up that you run out of creative rope. All of a sudden you feel yourself doing things that were kind of the same as you did three months ago. You may spin it a little, the stories are a little different with maybe different people but you’re creative tools as an authority figure are very, very limited. The thing about Kurt is that he is believable as a General Manager. He’s smart. He has credibility. He’s entertaining as hell and everybody in the world knows he can back it up.

Related: Eric Bischoff Announces The IRW Network Officially Launches June 1st; Makes Signing Up Free To Fans

This past 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:

  • What the process of pitching a TV show is like currently in the entertainment industry
  • The differences between scripted and unscripted TV content
  • What kind of shows TV executives are looking for right now
  • Trump’s decision to launch missiles into Syria
  • The current political climate in America
  • Allegations of bullying in WWE
  • Mick Foley’s upcoming hip replacement surgery
  • More…

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