The latest episode of former WCW President Eric Bischoff’s podcast, Bischoff on Wrestling, dropped earlier tonight and features former WWE & ECW commentator Joey Styles as Eric’s guest.
You can find some of Eric’s comments transcribed below.
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On the WWE Universe not reacting the way Vince McMahon reportedly wanted them to during Heyman & Lesnar’s RAW Promo:
EB: Unless you are there in the moment and are a part of the process you really don’t have a 360 degree view of anything. With that acknowledged and said, I have to question whoever’s decision it was to set the story up in Minneapolis. I’m not going to suggest that I ever sat down and tried to create a structure for a story or a time line for a story and asked somebody to tell me where we were going to be playing this story out. In which city. I never did that. I wasn’t that smart and didn’t have that vision if you will. I was smart enough to know that there are occasions because every city has it’s own personality. It really does. There were occasions like if we knew we were going to Philadelphia in three or five months for TV or PPV we created our format because we knew we were going to be in front of an audience with a certain type of personality that was going to react a certain type of way. It was kind of predictable.
Eric and Nick start the show off by talking about a few of the major pro wrestling news stories from this past week including:
- The WWE Universe not reacting the way Vince McMahon would have liked during Paul Heyman and Brock Lesnar’s segment on RAW
- AJ Styles teasing a match with Shawn Michaels for the Royal Rumble
- Dixie Carter and Billy Corgan’s battle for control on TNA
Eric then welcomes former WWE and ECW commentator Joey Styles to discuss:
- Joey nearly joining Eric and WCW in 2001
- How Joey originally broke in to the wrestling business
- Joey’s first encounter with Paul Heyman
- ECW’s exceptionally loyal fan base
- Whether ECW looked at WCW as “the devil”
- Why ECW was like Napster
- ECW & WCW’s long term influence on the business
- Where Eric first discovered a variety of the cruiserweight for WCW
- Joey’s current work with EVOLVE, CHIKARA & Beyond Wrestling
- What FloSports is attempting to do with independent wrestling
- More…
Eric then wraps the show up by answering fan questions from the #BischoffOnWrestling mailbag and giving his final thoughts for the week.
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