The latest episode of former WCW President Eric Bischoff’s podcast Bischoff on Wrestling was released last night!
You can find some of Eric ‘s comments regarding Jinder Mahal as the new WWE Champion transcribed below.
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On WWE’s decision to put the WWE Championship on Jinder Mahal at Backlash:
EB: I loved it. I loved it. Great move. I didn’t know he was actually going to get the title. As far as getting him featured and giving him a spotlight it makes all the sense in the world to me for all the right reasons. Business wise, strategically and also as a character. As a new character and as something that is fresh. He’s not the same kind of recycled cookie coming out of the cookie press with a little different flavor. I think this is really unique and that’s what WWE needs right now.
On fans critical of Jinder Mahal being portrayed as the “evil foreigner”:
EB: He should be a bad guy because right now he’s the hottest thing in the hottest company on the face of the Earth! I absolutely fricking guarantee you there is no one in India going, “Oh! WWE is coming to India and Jinder Mahal is the champion and I’m not going to go see them because he’s a bad guy!” (Laughs) No. No. Stop, leave your social justice warrior stuff at home when you come into pro wrestling. It’s not applicable.
This week’s episode of Bischoff on Wrestling features Eric discussing a couple of stories from around the business of pro wrestling with Nick. Including:
- Impact Wrestling President Ed Nordholm contact pro wrestling sites and releasing a time line and correspondence with Matt Hardy regarding the “Broken Universe”
- The $1 million offer made to CM Punk to wrestle this summer in the UK
- Jinder Mahal winning the WWE Championship
- NJPW announcing plans to launch a US subsidiary in 2018
- WWE announcing it’s first ever Women’s Money In The Bank Match
- John Cena’s upcoming one-man shows in Australia
- More…
Eric then answers questions from the #BischoffOnWrestling mailbag regarding:
- How he acquired the rights to Jimi Hendrix’s Voodoo Child for use in WCW
- If he thinks a WCW weekly show like the ECW one WWE did could of work
- How WWE would fare on PPV npw
- If he prefers a 2 or 3 man booth and who enjoyed doing commentary with
- WWE RAW’s stint of having celebrities GMs
- What WCW artifacts he has
- His favorite films
- Pro sports being “fixed”
- Whether wrestling finishers should have gimmicknames or be called by their actual technical names
- Wrestlers being taken out via stretcher and if it’s over done
- Working with Larry Zbyszko
- More…
You can find a special Bischoff on Wrestling Overrun on IRWNetwork.com, or listen in the embedded audio player below, featuring Eric chatting former WWE Superstar Hornswoggle. Some of the topics they discuss include:
- How he broke into the pro wrestling business
- Having to get major back surgery at a young age
- What led to him getting hired by WWE
- Working with Fit Finlay
- His reaction to be cast as a leprechaun
- What the original plans were for him as the Anonymous RAW GM
- Who helped him transition to the independent wrestling scene following getting fired by WWE
- His busy schedule
- More…
