Eric Bischoff On Sandman Joining WCW

[@walls2ink]

Hey guy's ❤...Thanks for all the memories growing up Mr Bischoff

[@JeffTullock-yx1hd]

I saw Sandman once in ECW and blown away. His matches are brutal on KZbin. I just watched one I hadn’t seen. Live tv makes the difference when it’s happening on your screen. Guys missing I think makes it a better show. Nitro was a hot show. It felt like you were at the action.

[@pepeshadilay]

Spoken like a true mark

[@Teddy42O]

Bischoff driving Flair's limousine to a open field to get jumped by NWO in 1999 is still hilarious 😂😂

[@CornPop2]

When you're as tough as him, you dont care about how many giant huge dudes are there

[@mikeg2491]

Don’t forget Nash and Hall running the Steiners off the road, wrestling doesn’t shoot enough skits out of the arenas like they used to.

[@RealMattKiefer]

@@mikeg2491Biscoff was a genius

[@ReinEngel]

It makes sense that a person being forced to drive his enemy around would pull something like that, especially considering the gang mentality of the nWo. The angle sure went downhill after that, though.

[@lanserilstorm8414]

I wish i could find the segmant where goldberg runs out to jump the nwo and gets beat up and eric is laughing and yelling CALL IT TONY CALL IT (makes being electrocuted noises) CALL IT TONY CALL IT! I remember me and my dad laughing so hard at that segment.

[@mikeg2491]

Fascinating revelation to hear an actual dollar figure on what they’d settle any frivolous lawsuit on

[@omgblastbeatslol]

I've heard Paulie say this a number of times of the years.

[@rogerrabbitonpcp6021]

SANDMAN🎉SANDMAN🎉SANDMAN🎉

[@ducklife420]

sandman was one of my favorite things about WCW. i loved seeing hak.

[@OmegaRedFan]

I remember seeing this on tv as a kid. Just think, the merger with AOL, and then you hired Sandman. This will be fun!

[@williamfoster4072]

The Giant smoking was his best gimmick

[@DoubleDash28]

The Giant at the time actually smoked in real life so wasn’t really a gimmick lol

[@ManimalPatB]

@@DoubleDash28 Giant still smokes to this day bruh

[@howlin.wolf.murphy]

Isn’t Disney on Ice a live production u attend and is rarely broadcast!?! IDK THATS JUST ONE MANS OPINION ?

[@joner10hunt56]

Wouldve been cool if every wrestler before their match got a shot at eric dunk that night...lol

[@howardcraigiv518]

I would pay money to see Conrad run the Ropes 😂😂😂…. For someone who hasn’t been in a squared circle he sure knows a lot about in ring work

[@ZZ29993]

Eric starts talking 0:36

[@JLPPRODUCTIONS-ql4ur]

Thanks man

[@marcsarfati3291]

Putting Mike Awesome with Nash. Could be worst idea ever 1) Mike was reckless. Could of killed Nash 2) Mike looked tiny next to Nash

[@briankregg6329]

Sandman looked like a complete fool

[@daidavies90]

YOU ARE NOTHING! YOU ARE A FOOL!! GOODNIGHT!!!

[@michaelvazquez7851]

Good interview

[@alfiehickson8440]

Hes so right!

[@timmc8444]

Good stuff

[@joshhefner8179]

I bet it was Kevin Sulivan he worked in ECW.

[@jamore4]

His gimmick only worked in ECW. He couldn’t get over in the other organizations.

[@InnocentFurryCat-we6yz]

I liked him as sandman and harcore Hak

[@kenshiman90]

bischoff made a fantastic point about live tv in the beginning. the wrestling nerd got btfo

[@djdonald243]

I could not disagree more.

[@ducklife420]

i thought they didn't want to call him sandman because of the sandman comic book which was under DC which was owned by time-warner at the time. they were going to make a sandman movie and didn't want the stink of wrestling on the name. this is why raven and hak both wore sandman shirts on television.

[@ReanimatorsMutilations]

Raven wore sandman shirts in ecw

[@bigron8896]

They weren't making a movie then. The comic wasn't that big until years later. It took off when it started getting collected as "graphic novels" TPB and sold at Barnes & Noble when they pivoted towards sales of that in the 00s even though the first trade paperback was before that. Sandman was from the Metallica song "Enter Sandman". They used to play that. They dubbed over it on the WWE versions of ECW stuff. Had nothing to do with the comic. Raven's whole alt-rock grunge/goth/industrial thing was from pop music and The Crow, he quoted Poe, and he was a big fan of "The Sandman" comic and occasionally wore the shirt. He wore other comics shirts and band shirts like KMFDM and ministry.

[@ReanimatorsMutilations]

@@bigron8896 Sandman is called sandman because his character was originally a surfer lol

[@bigron8896]

@@ReanimatorsMutilations Yep. Also true. Was Mr. Sandman then. I think the gimmick is actually from the slang for getting KO'd and it just started taking on other gimmicks lol

[@ducklife420]

@8896 there was a full spread in wizard magazine about the movie during this period. the comic ended in 1999 and was sold in collections long before that. trust me i got to meet neil gaiman on his book tour. i remember how hot that comic was.

[@sylvaindt]

I’ll keep watching these, they are interesting, I enjoy them… but I’m surprised how Foley in his podcast has better recollection than this guy. Every single clip has Eric basically saying I dunno, maybe, I wasn’t involved in that.

[@krectus]

Bischoff hating on Meltzer for getting everything wrong again....yet then goes on to show that got it mostly right.

[@takerdust]

if Bischoff wasn't a micromanager, why was he getting involved in a lot of the week-to-week booking decisions, especially if he had no real wrestling experience?

[@inter_1097]

Wait, so those guys weren't missing the dunk target on purpose??? wow

[@blakejarvis5302]

Apparently undertaker couldn't stand sandman while he worked for WWE, he annoyed the crap out of him

[@markw110]

😢😢😢

[@kevinbarthe4042]

I thought Sandman was not good for WCW. Around that time I remember WCW was doing weird stuff with all that hard-core stuff and WCW was starting to fall around this time Sandman came in.

[@ducklife420]

every time sandman showed up the ratings went up for that segment

[@kevinbarthe4042]

@ducklife420 as a kid being 13 year old watching this live I was like this guy sucks let's change the channel and watch the Undertaker and Kane! Something tells me I wasn't the only one to change the channel to Undertaker and Kane?

[@ShadowAngel606]

@@ducklife420 Wrong, in the 1999 survey WCW conducted about viewer losses and gains per wrestler, Sandman came out with -700,590

[@selectivision1425]

@@ShadowAngel606 That doesnt reflect true ratings.

[@ThePunk01]

Disney on ice is live ..

[@bigron8896]

Sandman in WCW was like the only decent thing on that roster lol. Met Sandman in ECW a bunch. Guy was hilarious.

[@SherlockBrian]

Not for nothing but Disney on Ice is live. 😂

[@rofflezwafflez1023]

Sandman always sucked in the ring. The gimmick and the promos/angles got him over and basically all of that was taken away in WCW. Seeing him in WCW felt like they were rolling his corpse out to the ring in a wheelbarrow and just dumping him in the ring to be pelted with objects.

[@WiseQuacker]

Stone Cold before Austin....

[@manningbaxter889]

Thank you Eric, for not turning all of your broadcasts Into I hate Trump, like nash and cornette

[@larrystilltheeman39]

We hate Trump

[@soup8786]

He is a very hateable man

[@uncled6079]

Nash is too much lol. Cornette takes little breaks to talk about wrasslin at least

[@mikeg2491]

We do need at least one unhinged “ i hate Biden” podcast for good measure though. Dutch might come close but he’s smart enough to not alienate half his audience

[@knicksfule]

Your feelings hurt snowflake?

[@neilsmith9066]

Nobody had a name for him really Eric Hack…. How Stupid I’ve waited Years to write that too you. Ridiculous

[@JBThax]

Hak was his real life nickname

[@neilsmith9066]

@@JBThax it is still horrendous

[@jeff-ds2pr]

Never really got into Sandman. Just some drunk/drug addict walking around hitting guys in the head with a kendo stick.

[@NewDemophon]

Sounds pretty awesome when you word it that way 😂

[@robwest5457]

So you couldn’t call him sandman and let him be sandman because you feared litigation from ECW? Bischoff: that’s a bunch of Meltzer Bullshit! Yeah we couldn’t call him Sandman. Yeah we couldn’t let him act like sandman. But it’s Meltzer Bullshit! Umm sounds like Meltzer is right. You changed his name and character bc you didn’t wanna have another lawsuit. How is Meltzer wrong? Also you didn’t have copyright music for obvious reasons. And didn’t mention ECW because again, lawsuits. How is any of this Meltzer being wrong?!?! Because you don’t like him? Everyone just accepts what Prichard and Bischoff say about Meltzer being a liar but then continue to prove he isn’t with their own words lol.

[@davidmaj4259]

Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah hey hey hey goood byyee 😂 that was so funny how they fired you and Eric was taken out in a garbage truck 😆

[@thebeardbeastx]

Still 100% better then what tk and AEW does haha

[@TobeyStarburst]

Yeah no

[@kazman_6899]

They shouldn't have brought him in. He brought nothing to the company.

[@robwest5457]

For those who struggle with why WCW can’t just take wrestlers and continue to gimmick owned by the previous company, not just wcw, wwe, tna, aew anyone…think of it like this… Let’s say Walter White who is owned by AMC right? That character is? Let’s say idk, Dexter who is owned by showtime wanted to take Brian Cranston and make him Walter White on their own show on Showtime? Can that do that without AMC saying ok? No. People forget wrestling companies are NOT unlike any other tv show. Marvel can’t just one day bring in Ben Affleck to play Batman in a MCU movie. It amazes me how much this concept is lost on wrestling fans. IP is owned by the trademark holder.

[@larrystilltheeman39]

Sandman was a loser! If it wasn't hardcore his matches would suck,if it was hardcore than the match still sucked because he was in it. How was he ever a wrestler? He couldn't wrestle,that was proved in WCW and WWE surely as hell didn't give him a call. He then signed to WWE and failed like he was a school kid. All he ever did was drink and smoked cigarettes and a weak stick wrapped in tape.

[@mt-cd4oy]

He had aura and charisma. He could "wrestle" but he didn't need to. Go watch his matches again in ECW. Look closely, he's a good worker.

[@larrystilltheeman39]

@@mt-cd4oy ECW is trash wrestling. I will pass on watching

[@Drummer8282]

It was the entrance to Metallica that was entertaining

[@chakalabradores]

​@@larrystilltheeman39 ECW > WCW 🙃