Alex Wright on What He Really Thinks of Eric Bischoff

[@EllahRah]

These interviews are Amazing Alex is giving the best info on WCW when 99: of the guys memories barely existed in WCW

[@1978mackdaddy]

Yeah he was a mainstay tho.. Alex was there forever.

[@rccomics]

Alex Wright is one of those guys you just want to hang out with. Cool guy, very little ego

[@ganglabesh]

The best wrestling interview channel on the entire youtube

[@poboxchristmas380]

very classy and respectful answer by Alex. Well said.

[@Farmerb1985]

Great interview with amazing young talent from Germany and deserve a great run for the wcw world heavyweight championship,i miss wcw so much

[@mikeblank5139]

Well Spoken.

[@takerdust]

Bobby Heenan slammed Bischoff hard for his lack of direction and management. He even said that Eric told him to mind his business (in a nice way) when Heenan tried to suggest a segment for an angle, so Heenan checked out from then on. Didn't matter that Bobby had decades of valuable experience across territories, the meat vendor turned announcer that wormed his way into management is the final boss. Now Easy E has a podcast full of "I don't remember" moments.

[@ladadavidson7926]

There were people who hated Bischoff and people who liked him. Obviously Alex Wright couldn't have anything really bad to say about Eric, WCW was the highlight of his career, money and star-value wise. For poor Bobby thou, it must have been heart-breaking to trade is marquee and passion for money.

[@bassclay100]

or dave meltzer is lying lololol

[@ladadavidson7926]

@@bassclay100 Check the Bobby Heenan interview that was done somewhere in 2001-2002. Can be found on KZbin and has NOTHING to do with that idiot Meltzer.

[@Meatball2022]

Bischoff is a great manager or heel authority tv figure. Gm etc. he’s got natural heat. If he kept at that role he’d still be working

[@i.s.3458]

Thumbnail got bischoff looking like pierce Brosnan in goldeneye

[@baronvonsvengoonie853]

Yeah in your opinion

[@josheisert8380]

Bischoff IS 007

[@ajanithanaturalmystic3875]

Lmao

[@catyear75]

Great series ! I think We all want to know : How much money was Alex making per year ?

[@WinstonWolfe21]

I’m gonna guess 250-300K

[@ozzymorrison8628]

Classy guy👏👏

[@therattlesnake1614]

Alex wright was great as berlyn that for him made him more of a wrestler even though his talent was phenomenal 👍

[@BigDaddyBeefBoy]

Until he was squashed by Hogan's politics.

[@jyesucevitz]

I remember Alex. I liked him, but hated the dancing. (don't even get me going on Disco.) but man he could go. I too didn't realize the Berlin character as a vampire though. I though it was a natzi sympathizer gimmick. he seems like a genuinely nice guy. good to see him again.

[@canedewey756]

I thought berlyn was a goth

[@nriab23]

I first remember him as Berlin (due to my age) but I never connected the dots until I watched these interviews that they were the same wrestler. He played both gimmicks so well.

[@steveomac385]

@@canedewey756 I thought he was one of those Euro ravers. Like they seemed more goth/punk than the US versions.

[@speakingmoistly9912]

Wampire

[@jaymeister4850]

Not going to let you off the hook, Jim Y. This is me, getting you started on Disco Inferno

[@DarknessFlameMedia]

lol very smart business man XD lol wtf

[@ibzanarroyo704]

Eric answered back to Alex on his podcast this week when I told him what Alex said.

[@russellcampbell3500]

What are u his personal stooge? Get a life. Looking for a pat on the back for this is childish, back in my day u be beat for being a snitch. Nowadays u snowflakes are proud to be a rat.

[@thenateyshow8900]

which episode was that?

[@ibzanarroyo704]

@@thenateyshow8900 last nights podcast of 83 weeks. You can check it out here on KZbin

[@markula_4040]

Eric was a good businessman... until he wasn't. A lot of the money issues that caused them to be shut down were caused by him.

[@theazureknight9399]

Like what? People always bring up the big million dollar contracts and Thunder but fail to talk about the full context. Without a big contract there's no way people like Hogan, Hall, Nash or Randy Savage would've signed with him, and without those guys WCW wouldn't have gotten the exposure it needed to beat the WWF in tv ratings. About Thunder, it was Turner Broadcasting (the company that owned WCW) who told Eric to make a second show because of the success of Nitro. Problem is, they told WCW to do it out of their own existing budget, without giving them a single extra penny to make a whole new show. Eric Bischoff was the first major heel authority figure in the history of the business, he created the modern format of weekly live wrestling television (before Nitro everything was taped weeks in advance) and he still is the only wrestling executive to have ever consistently beaten Vinnie Mac on the ratings war. There's a lot of slander regarding this subject on the internet because the dirtsheets hate the guy and it's really unfair. Bischoff has his weakness, he's definitely not a good booker for example. But the dirtsheets paint the guy as some dumbass who only managed to beat WWE because he got lucky with an angle and had a lot of money to burn. This is just factually wrong.

[@mringram]

@@theazureknight9399 agreed

[@redauerbach2753]

Huh🙄

[@steveomac385]

@Luis yara Reyes How was that different than his WWF era that doesn't work for me brother. Eric just put reality into the contract. Hogan never did anything he didn't want to do regardless of the company he was working for.

[@Plexpara]

he was a better one as most people out there. think thats the point.i would never make it in a position like he was...you either

[@palaceofwisdom9448]

The only time WCW ever turned a profit was on Eric's watch. Then the higher ups demanded that Thunder happen, and the product got overexposed. WWE has also struggled with doing two major TV shows per week, because only diehard fans want to watch that much content.

[@kvnday4099]

I suppose you don't remember WCW from the late 70s thru the 80s.

[@davidmitchell6873]

There was no wcw at that point.

[@Splattermelt]

People still tuned in to watch. Plus Thunder was actually the highest rated show on TBS when WCW was axed. Back then it wasn't so much of an issue because there were so much less entertainment options in the world, and the world wasn't moving at the pace as it is today with instant results & demands. You could still record Nitro/Raw/Thunder/Smackdown and watch it the next day without worrying someone would spoil it for you, unless you had co-workers who religiously talked about it (which could be the case). The point is that there is so much more going on in peoples lives these days as opposed to back then - be it entertainment, work obligations (that not necessarily changed), distractions, social media, etc. Watching RAW is difficult because it's now a three hour show that's unable to sustain that time limit. There's so much filler and less Wrestling. In the 90's, Wrestling left you wanting more, today WWE leaves you wanting less. That's overexposure; RAW shouldn't be Lawrence of Arabia in time, they need to leave that to the PPV's.

[@phildicks4721]

Yeah, even in the book the Death of WCW, the author's pointed out initially he opposed creating Thunder for that very reason(overexposure). He did change his mind after they waved a lot of money at WCW to do it, so in a way Thunder was the Network's fault and not Eric's.

[@JGD185]

Eric (with Turner's backing) is really the ONLY guy to ever make Vince sweat. I'm sure when WCW was killing them in the ratings that Vince had some sleepless nights.

[@borobinson7005]

He does not look 47yo at all

[@joehilner4830]

Such a smart businessman that he spent the company out of business.

[@gregorywilliams8555]

IKR

[@brandondetroitfanmichaels4325]

WCW would've been done in 1996, if it wasn't for him. The corporates did not like wrestling, on their television.

[@thelonesilencer]

He made WCW profitable. WCW folding was not his fault.

[@gregorywilliams8555]

So Eric Bischoff Spending Ted Turner’s💰Like Water Wasn’t His Fault! C’mon Bruh(SMDH)!

[@charlesbean7396]

Do your research. The Time Warner merger was what caused them to go out of business

[@jeremysteelman2900]

I always thought Eric Bischoff was just a shitty wrestler back then.

[@masterj4777]

No Alex!! Dancing fools & Berlin were garbage 🤦🗑️

[@Drollpanther]

What did columbine have to do with his Berlyn gimmick? Because he was in a black trench coat??

[@ThunderBunny30]

Pretty much. Trench coat mafia bs was main stream concern during mid/late 99.

[@studbourbon798]

Alex is only 23 in this videos .

[@hakijajaganjac7140]

Alex looks like Billy Corgan.

[@GETole]

Bischoff was in no way a good businessman.

[@kamranaziz6889]

Indeed, a loser, that he is.

[@Jewish.Redneck.Hybrid]

Neither are you.

[@SoUnDMaN831]

The only real success WCW had was when Eric was in charge. Granted it was small compared to WWF, but what other period of time in WCW’s history were they, as an organization, as successful as they were in the mid to late 90’s?

[@Mechachu]

@@SoUnDMaN831 It also went to crap under Bischoff, what does that say? Lol

[@SoUnDMaN831]

@@Mechachu I guess the quote from the author Charles Dickens comes into play. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. 😂 From his book A Tale of Two Cities.

[@TheRpf1977]

Very smart businessman??? He was a conman