Eric Bischoff Reveals How & Why He Almost Helped Buy WCW In 2001!

[@InsideTheRopes]

Eric Bischoff sat down with Kenny McIntosh and discussed what led to him trying to get backers to buy WCW, how it came about and what he wanted to change when he took over. Subscribe to the channel for more clips of our live shows and interviews and don't forget to like and comment too!

[@InkWarrior]

The entire speech about failure is almost the exact same thing Paul Heyman said at the end of the ECW documentary.

[@Dud512]

@@booknerd869 alot of people say WWF Attitude was basically ECW and I see what they mean

[@davidforster8650]

@@Dud512 WWF's Attitude was just ECW lite

[@mingleceo]

@@davidforster8650 Amen

[@davidtodd3401]

Only WCW and WWF made money. ECW, much like AEW today, was wrestling for incels. For dudes who can't get girlfriends and haven't progressed mentally from the time they were 12. "Oh blood" "oh weapons" 🎉 Makes it unwatchable to anyone who isn't (or doesn't have the mentality of) a 12 year old boy.

[@Machete87]

i was thinkin the same thing. u know wat, both men are right u cannot achieve success without failure. u find out something didn't work u learn from it n u become better u win.🔥😎

[@fizzyfuzz5878]

Strange they never let Eric be back in charge of WCW solo. Sure he let guys get in his ear to make destructive booking decisions, but he also helped them beat WWF for a time. Russo's WCW creative was clearly bombing the second he got there. Should've given Eric a real second chance. But the people really in charge were ignorant when it came to professional wrestling.

[@CeemPlay]

The big big bang. The reason I'm alive

[@burko002]

FIFA 12 banger

[@Tweet_Wrestling]

I think Bischoff is a genius. Pure rags to riches kinda guy

[@TheyCallMeMrMaybe]

He definitely had it all together during WCW's golden-age and the early Ruthless-Aggression era. However, him and Hogan are credited as being the spiraling downfall of TNA while he also put in no effort running Smackdown back in 2019 when he was named creative director (a polar opposite to Paul Heyman when he was in charge of Raw).

[@Wongwongwong10000]

Eric Bischoff is not a genius, he had the most talented wrestling roster and only beat Vince for 83 weeks. He should’ve won the war and WWE should be out of business. He had very little creative ideas once the nWo storyline was over. He let Hogan and friends run the asylum. The younger stars who should’ve been the next storylines but Hulk Hogan would’ve had to step back and not be Heavyweight Champion, his ego couldn’t handle it. Not wanting Booker T to be champion is an example. Goldberg was there last ditch effort to have a new character be pushed but that failed. Not using Bret Hart correctly and not letting him develop storylines was another big mistake. Eric Bischoff is the biggest moron in pro wrestling because he had everything handed to him, blank cheque book to sign every big superstar, and he did everything wrong because he tried to appease his friends and not make the right decisions for WCW. Wrestlers made a ton of money but the product sucked.

[@Tweet_Wrestling]

@@Wongwongwong10000 agree with what you’re saying but for me Eric is a genius. I say that because Vince McMahon was and still is wrestling. He created the show we all watch. And bischoff give him a run for his money. He’s a very clever businessman who is a multimillionaire and I take my hat off to him

[@kob456]

@@Wongwongwong10000 83 weeks is only? No wrestling promotion now can come on TV and dare compete with WWE for even a day. Eric was a genius that changed the business forever. He's the reason why we get live primetime wrestling on TV from both WWE and AEW now.

[@miamimagicians]

WCW to this day was incredible!

[@doin_fine]

In seventy years they're gonna look back on the 96' to 2000 period of wrestling and say the was the golden era of wrestling. I can't watch the stuff nowadays but back then I loved it.

[@barabusband]

Great content lately.

[@anthonychobotdoespopcultur7762]

Awesome content

[@danielbrown-kenyon1338]

I appreciate the Collingwood jumper !!

[@joemckim1183]

It was probably a bit naive on Eric's part thinking that WB would want to keep WCW on their networks after it was no longer under the same corporate umbrella of AOL Time Warner. And with Ted Turner no longer having any real power in the company anymore there would be no one fighting to keep it on the network. I think the executives were just humoring him in "yeah we'll let you stay on the air after the sale" just to get the ball rolling on the sale of the company. The AOL Time Warner people were fine in getting less for WCW knowing that they would suddenly have a lot more prime time real estate available to work with on their networks.

[@rolltide9547]

What is funny the 3 million Vince paid was made back 3x over with the first release of the Ric Flair career dvds.

[@andrewmcintyre9279]

WCW should return though!

[@TheNatedog999]

That's probably never gonna happen because tnt already has aew which is pretty much the wcw of professional wrestling nowadays

[@andrewmcintyre9279]

@@TheNatedog999 True!

[@yakadoodledongywongy8718]

@UFO'S ARE REAL!!! TNAEW

[@allencollins5666]

@@TheNatedog999TNT Time Warner Wish They Still Had WCW On The Air Instead Of All Excuses Wrestling. AEW Will Never Be 1/4 Of Great WCW.

[@allencollins5666]

@@yakadoodledongywongy8718🤜🤛

[@shellbacksclub]

how didn't anyone have the foresight to know that even buying it to own the tapes would be worth the investment?

[@shellbacksclub]

Uncle Junior: "he just couldn't sell it. he's not respected."

[@jasnmeade9487]

I like Dan Harmon’s story wheel and kishotenketsu as storytelling devices.

[@johnnypavkovich6238]

Will you sine Kimberly and Sable leather dog coller with chain match please mak this match

[@Southpoint2019]

Why didn’t ted Turner just buy it himself ?

[@marka.graffakasnakebitenat3736]

Burned out

[@brianszitas562]

He did in the mid to late 80s then in 2000 he was pretty much kicked out of heading his company.

[@the.real.novatic1]

When Time Warmer pulled the Shang Tsung on Turner's company in 1996 he lost a lot of power and AOL ugl ass was the final nail in the coffin in 2000.

[@toxicculture4682]

worst thing he did was make himself a character

[@sammywadley5506]

Vince Russo destroyed WCW to the core

[@dannyfonseca8275]

Time Warner blame for WCW falling apart had time to fix it with money lost sold to Wwe big mistake👎😖

[@JasonK1982]

Eric wasn’t gonna buy wcw, nobody wanted it. It’s all speculation that he has used to make money

[@TheyCallMeMrMaybe]

It's why Vince bought it for only $4.2 million ($2.5m for the IP, $1.7m for their archive). To put that into a WWE perspective, that's less than what they pay for some of their top-wrestlers in a year.

[@davidaulds7031]

Bischoff had partnered with the guys from what was ESPN Classic, they were going to buy WCW but then Jamie Kellner killed the TV deal and WCW became worthless.

[@monkeyrun]

@@TheyCallMeMrMaybe The sale price tells you how much they don't care about WCW.

[@marka.graffakasnakebitenat3736]

@@davidaulds7031 they should have moved WCW to another network.

[@brianszitas562]

Dude they had a storyline going on him buying wcw plus there was a conference call in 2001 with him talking about buying wcw

[@shellbacksclub]

Zzz...

[@EFIL4NAISREP]

He ruined his legitimacy in TNA

[@brianszitas562]

He wasn't the head in tna

[@donaldsowers213]

But he didnt cus.....im afraid i cant do anything with WCW without Hulk. Thats why he didnt buy it and because of poorly negotiated contracts that would've put a financial burden from hell on his shoulder. Im sure if he wouldve bought it we wouldve had 7 different NWOs by now. We wouldve seen the character Hulk Hogan, Hollywood Hulk Hogan, the re birth of Hulk Hogan, the rebirth of Hollywood Hogan 2, and buy now his gimmick would be spray painting people with the letters OTH on everyone meaning Old Time Hulk or Over the Hill Hogan. Oh wait, him and a flair would still be main eventing ever ppv to. Soon be broadcadting the event from local retirement centers. Matches would be 5 stars. Cus we would see real live nurses actualky stoppin the matches to give insulin shots and o2 masks to keep there respiratory levels high. They would need 3 med calls in a 30 minute time slot brother! Wooh!!

[@kob456]

Bischoff didn't buy it simply because WCW wasn't coming without a TV deal and his investors pulled out. You're rambling. Posts like this are why people say wrestling fans are uneducated low IQ idiots.