The latest episode of former WCW President Eric Bischoff’s Bischoff on Wrestling Overrun podcast was just released via the BoW podcast feed. It features Eric chatting with his long time friend and former WCW performer Sonny Onoo.
A new Overrun featuring former WWE Superstar Brooklyn Brawler will be released exclusively on IRWNetwork.com this Wednesday night. It will be available via the general BoW podcast feed next Monday night.
You can find some of Eric and Sonny’s comments from their in-depth conversation about their time in North Korea as part of the Collision In Korea event transcribed below.
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SO: Some of the videos from Collision In Korea are phenomenal in the sense that some of matches were great, Antonio Inoki vs Ric Flair was pretty amazing to begin with, and then imagine what those North Koreans thought. Inoki was basically their guy. They printed money for us! They printed stamps and money just for us. People wouldn’t believe it. When we went there they printed money just for us. It was wrestling money with Inoki’s picture on it. I can’t tell you how big it was. We went to the arena where they had the event and it was 180,000 people if you can imagine that. They took us to these little kids with these flip cards. Each flip card was like one pixel and they would make a missile destroy the Japanese empire or whoever the bad guy was. There was a lot of war propaganda. These kids told me they practiced this stuff for six months.
EB: WWE owns all of the content that WCW owned and I know that content is there. I guarantee you that Collision in Korea will never see the light of day for a couple of reasons. One is, over the course of two nights they did 350,000+ people. It was 185,000 one night and 170,000 the next night. I’m not going to sugar coat this… this was not paid attendance. There is no paid attendance in North Korea because it’s a communist country. The reason WWE won’t show it is because I don’t think there will ever be a more impressive crowd shot than what we saw with 180,000 people. It looked like an Olympic event.
Some of the other topics they discuss during the Overrun include:
- How Sonny turned Eric on to sushi
- Why it’s weird getting older and going to strip clubs
- Their memories from their bizarre trip to North Korea for The Collision In Korea w/ Muhammad Ali
- Sonny’s take on NJPW expanding into the United States and what Japanese wrestling fans want
- Vince Russo eliminating Japanese wrestlers from WCW TV and the subsequent lawsuit that Sonny was apart of
- Eric as a kickboxer and why other kickboxers were scared of him
- If Sonny thinks Eric could have taken Vince McMahon in a fight
- Sonny’s recent trip to the NJPW offices
- More…
This past week’s episode of Bischoff on Wrestling features Eric and Nick taking an in-depth look at his recent WWE Network Table For 3 special with Jim Cornette and Michael PS Hayes. Including:
- What it was like being on set with Jim Cornette after the terrible things Jim has said about him
- If Eric was familiar with why Jim didn’t like him
- How Eric dealt with backstage “stooges” in WCW
- Why he hates Vince Russo
- What the independent pro wrestling scene was like when Eric launched the WCW Power Plant
- What other concepts from WCW Eric is proud of
- If Eric feels responsible for the “cool heel”
- Whether Roman Reigns can be a real old school heel
- More…
Eric then answers questions from the #BischoffOnWrestling mailbag regarding:
- Whose promos Eric enjoyed listening to the most in WCW
- How he would have ended the nWo angle
- If there was ever a push in WCW to do business deals, recruit talent or do live events in Puerto Rico
- If it’s true WCW’s PPV profits went to Time Warner and not WCW
- Whether featuring Eric backstage before the “shocking” hug with Vince on RAW took away from his debut
- The idea of a tag team Money In The Bank Ladder Match
- Hulk Hogan’s hair peace at Halloween Havoc 96
- If undefeated streaks mean less now than before
- Why the proposed WCW deal with NBC in late 98 didn’t work out
- More…
