Eric Bischoff SHOOTS On Finding Out DX Invaded WCW!

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[@InsideTheRopes]

Does Eric Bischoff deserve more credit for his contributions to WWE’s product?

[@quentinmcinnerney2831]

Yes

[@jeremykops]

Absolutely

[@backhandtv6611]

Can i ask do you ever share the full live show interviews on a Platform or behind a paywall anywhere

[@TheMegamyGamer]

No.

[@geoffman9987]

God No

[@chanoqueque3367]

When he said he told his staff to treat Vince how they would treat Turner if he shows up and give him full access had me rolling. I had to spit the food out so I wouldn't choke. Truly genius.

[@herculesrockefeller-kt3nk]

Say what you want about Bischoff, he seems to have a really healthy attitude about his time in the Wrestling industry and his place in wrestling history. Whether that is acceptance, person growth or self delusion, he seems to be in a good place about things.

[@Thatguy27250]

I love listening to him tell his stories tbh!!

[@sageth69]

love these interviews !

[@leovaillancourt5683]

Dx getting could have made one hell of an invasion story at that time

[@TheOmegaRiddler]

It could have backfired on WWE if the let them in because everybody would have been tuning in to WCW, to see DX.

[@murdamonk]

The ratings for both companies if they actually allowed it to happen would’ve been through the roof

[@VaniaK_K]

Can’t wait for the lita interview!!!

[@Silverlightlive]

WWF created 1-2-3 kid before Eric Bishoff ever had the idea of Sixx. So you created your own monster, Eric.

[@surge78]

Yeah but WCW created The Lightning Kid before he was the 1-2-3 Kid

[@robertmagill6005]

WCW just let Waltman be Waltman. What did Bishoff really do besides that?

[@kendo7964]

@@surge78 😂😂 ha got him.

[@TheFoook]

WCW didnt make waltman. WWF didnt make waltman. Waltman made himself. And IF you wanna give someone the props. It should be Scott Hall putting him over on a random raw

[@KingKronik42o]

1 + 2 + 3 = syxx

[@PrimeEvilDean]

I remember seeing this live. DX was at a loading dock in the back of Nitro with a rolling door. Kevin Nash later stated he was on the other side of that door, but that a frumpy security guy was under orders from "someone in WCW management" to not open the door under any circumstances. Not saying it was Bischoff, but it could've been any one of Turner's executives who was floating around WCW at that time. For all we know, it might've even been someone with a fu manchu mustache...ya know...the same guy whom Bischoff always yielded to whenever he made requests...."brother."

[@pkizzlebeats]

It’s not just that he was in nwo n u fired him, it was that he was an original member of the kliq n he just gelled so much during that transition cuz he already had the kliq in wwe so it was a smooth transition

[@LRayWilliams]

I was in the media. We were supposed to do interviews with WCW that day but they declined. That was unusual. Then we drove to Hampton an interviewed members of WWE. Then I went home and watched both and discovered the DX invasion. Then I said that’s why. WCW had been very accommodating till that point Randy Savage cut a promo for my weekly sports highlight show

[@thunderousooner527]

I miss the old WCW

[@acehigh79]

WCW fucked up here. They should have opened the door and let dx in the building. WCW would have won the war right there!

[@allencollins5666]

LOL. Noone In DX Would’ve Been A Main Eventer In WCW. Triple H Couldn’t Sleep His Way To The Top In WCW. And DX Wouldn’t Have Lasted 5 Weeks. Sting, Lex Luger & Goldberg/The Giant Would’ve Taken On Them By Themselves. Noone Would’ve Saw DX As A Threat To Any Of Those WCW 4 In A 4 On 1 Attack. DX Were A Threat To Austin & The Rock. They Wouldn’t Lasted Against Any 2 Of Those WCW Stars. WCW Had Midcarders Who Would’ve Taken On DX Alone /2 Against 4-Scott Steiner, Meng, The Barbarian Scott Norton Rick Steiner, Any Two Of Them. Meng & Steiner Could’ve Taken On DX By Themselves. Every WCW Faction In 1998 Except The LWO Would’ve Beat DX Down Or Destroyed Them-NWO, NWO Wolfpack, NWO Hollywood, Raven’s Flock, Four Horsemen & The First Family-Meng, Hugh Morrus, The Barbarian & Jerry Flynn.

[@acehigh79]

@@allencollins5666 not the pt man lol. You completely missed what I was saying. If WCW opened the door that night and had WWF DX on WCW television......Game Over!!

[@alanguages]

@@allencollins5666 You did not get what the op meant. If DX was allowed into Nitro and the audience saw it, people would have switched the channel to watch WCW. It literally would have contracted WWF wrestlers in WCW programming. No pretending working for McMahon either. It would have been legit and Nitro's unpredictability which they ran on, become higher demand. Imagine DX and the NWO on Nitro.

[@GamingWithDIDI]

@@allencollins5666 Ted, Eric, Russo, nor the entire WCW roster gonna let you hit brodie

[@andrewft31]

@@allencollins5666Triple H was already a multi time champion by the time he got with Stephanie, and had the Curtain Call not happened he, not Austin would have won the 96 King of the Ring, so Vince was already going to push him because of his friendship with Shawn Michaels.

[@OfficiallZenFN]

It’s not that he did anything for WWE is the fact that he lit a fire under their butts and made them have to really think outside the box and had it not been for him doing what he was doing attitude would’ve been a whole lot different and maybe wouldn’t even have happened so he might not have created the attitude era his product made them go in that direction

[@84west57]

Could you imagine if they would’ve got in

[@wickedmike1465]

I think if both WWE and WCW were smart (particularly WCW), they should have had some behind the scenes handshake deal, and have DX actually bust in at that time, and then have a 2-3 NWO members retaliate later on. Would have made both shows so much bigger.

[@Oldschool1943]

*WWF

[@ddcs0s]

Can't remember who said it I think it might have been Nash but he said they should have just opened the door because nothing would have happened and WWF would have looked stupid

[@wickedmike1465]

@@Oldschool1943 Yes I know it was WWF, but as they can't use that for even old stuff thanks to the charity, I use WWE as it's what I am used to now.

[@eddievonb.7463]

That would have been wild but both companies were too hot headed and determined to destroy the other to work together, but that could have been fun.

[@andrewft31]

@@eddievonb.7463actually Vince had offered Bischoff the same deal he had with Heyman and ECW but Bischoff turned it down

[@hunterx767]

I can legit see Paul asking eric to come bak those two together would be fire

[@tony4534]

Triple H would have to get permission from his boss.

[@pepsiguy52883]

If bischoff was smart he shoulda let dx in. Wwf cameras wouldn’t have been allowed in the building and it woulda forced wcw to film it. The ratings woulda killed. So bischoff was an idiot

[@mikeehrcke7594]

He also giving a lot of road doggs credit to x pac so he can pat his own back🤣 gotta love these wrestlers getting old and delusional

[@150booyadragon]

​@@mikeehrcke7594 Stop pretending like XPac wasn't a huge part of the DX vibe just because you hate Bischoff. Have more respect

[@150booyadragon]

Did you watch the video.... At all? You know, the main bulk of the video where he details that he didn't know that they were there until afterwards?

[@mikeehrcke7594]

@@150booyadragon look at DX and what made them pop…. It was majority of road doggs stuff…. X was just the chop😂 it’s not about bischoff like you and himself think just out here making stuff up to claim HE made DX🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@uglyn6a]

​@@mikeehrcke7594not at all haha, road Dogg was not cool, and the time where he was more cool was well after 1-2-3 kid came back, when the outlaws joined DX they were just a couple extra guys, even triple H was just Shawn Michaels homie who took over because he lost the title and was hurt, after 1-2-3 kid got their, the whole persona and attitude of the group changed, more due to Bischoff definitely than Road Dogg haha

[@MeltWithU]

My question for him after this statement, would have been… Why not just open the garage door and let DX in? What would’ve happened if you did that and proposed a match between DX and the NWO? Put DX on WCW TV and force Vinces hand.

[@alyssamuckway4663]

Lawsuits.

[@RugoGaming]

Because he only found out after the show that they were there.

[@GrymmSoul]

"Why not just open the garage door and let DX in?" Gee, if only Bischoff had spent several minutes on an anecdote which explained that reason perfectly clearly, right? R-r-right? Bischoff should probably do an interview with Inside the Ropes to explain how, huh? He could even Shoot on Finding Out DX Invaded WCW.... Ah, but, if only that would happen... we can only dream about that eternal, unfathomable mystery... 🤣

[@_The_Journey]

Most definitely but it sounds like he didn’t find out till after the show, that’s what he said here at least

[@DropkickMurphysFan01]

@@RugoGaming Riiiiight

[@KinnereyB]

Eric really is a phenomenal storyteller with a super sharp memory. I always enjoy listening to Eric Bischoff

[@darrengladwell]

IT WAS DAYTIME ERIC!!!

[@BigDadJan]

Half the DX segment is them talking to fans outside but he had a live microphone in the ring lmao

[@txmetalhead82xk]

😆👍🏼

[@troyclements806]

I would have sent out Rick and Scott Steiner aswell as The Barbarian and Meng, oh how the Monday Night Wars would have changed, with a legit beatdown 😂

[@mikeehrcke7594]

Bro what? He hit me with that curve ball I was thinking road dog and then said x pac and took all the credit💀💀💀💀

[@andrewft31]

Well Eric did let Waltman be himself and break away from the 123 Kid gimmick and he took the Syxx gimmick back to WWE as X-Pac

[@dollazandsense]

The kilq was nwo n dx before they hit tv. Ppl forget wwe had factions before wcw the kliq bsk etc… was way before nwo. N if we really gon be real ECW IS THE COMPANY WHO STARTED REALITY WRESTLING! letting guys just be them selves

[@Eternaldarkness3166]

They should have opened the door

[@rossrobertson674]

Stone Cold Steve Austin was basically a wrestler being himself and using his name, I don't think they got that idea from WCW

[@bryanmills137]

but he started as The Ringmaster and didn't start going by Stone Cold Steve Austin till 96

[@rossrobertson674]

@@bryanmills137 yes but my point was they weren't copying WCW with Stone Cold, that was organic

[@thunderousooner527]

That was a big mistake firing at exwrestler from WCW

[@AllRound_GG]

Eric should have just let DX in!

[@indianastones6032]

Knocking on a door and leaving after no reply aint an invasion......more a curriosity!

[@kruzan340]

I thought XPac was before Syxx?

[@blackraven85_1]

No. Syxx came first and then Waltman went to WWF and X-Pac was born.

[@Cameo131]

“When they know I’m somewhere else.” Like DX feared him 😄 X-Pac’s my favorite wrestler, but I’m surprised hearing Bischoff say he developed that character. Never saw that as a character. Seemed like he was just being himself.

[@bryanbalment7993]

Bischoff sounds very sure and credible telling these stories. Except when you look closer and realise he's talking absolute bollocks. The DX "Invasion" of Nitro happened hours before they actually went on the air. And as far as Vince McMahon actually turning up at a WCW PPV to fight him? Titan were in the process of suing Turner for copyright infringement over Scott Hall and Kevin Nash's presentation when they first jumped back to WCW. Here you have WCW implying that a WWF character - Mr McMahon - was going to be on one of their shows when they knew he wasn't? The only thing showing up was the legal consequences.

[@andrewft31]

They had already settled that lawsuit before Waltman even signed to WCW, part of the agreement was if WCW ever went up for sale WWF would get first options.

[@maxrocketansky]

Xpac was in DX for sympathy purposes.

[@Hetch79]

What happens warn you put dx and Wolfpack together the kliq wich is the dna of nwo n dx

[@maxrocketansky]

@@Hetch79 ok?

[@andrewft31]

No he was in because he is close to both Triple H and Shawn Michaels and he can legit go in the ring. Watch his Raw match with Bret Hart when he was still the 123 Kid, he could keep up with Bret. That speaks volumes about him. And his WCW feuds with Eddie, Flair and Malenko were also gold. He was so good Flair agreed to have a feud with him.

[@maxrocketansky]

@@andrewft31 ya, but he was a really terrible person

[@BOKYODUBS]

Eric Bischoff really thinks he can do no wrong

[@AllRound_GG]

You never listen to 83 weeks obviously. He has admitted on many occasions what he stuffed up.

[@darkmyau]

The last bit. I couldnt disagree more. Nothing has come close to WCW Nitro.

[@wintyrqueen]

The irony of Bischoff, of all people, bitching that people take credit for things they didn’t do

[@DaRealPatrickP]

You will never convince me WCW didn't know in advance DX would be there ? I just wonder how long Vince really owned WCW ?

[@rickytorres4213]

Even assuming WCW didn't certain NWO members sure did

[@tony4534]

@@rickytorres4213 Not necessarily. Just because they were friends doesn’t mean they felt the need to share every little detail.

[@RyanFennec]

🪐

[@PopRockRevival]

bischoff shouldn't have made an outrageous offer to mcmahon such as $5 million. vince mcmahon will only takes part in something if it makes him money. mcmahon no showing the even would have appeared cowardly and a stupid business decision.

[@tommymann69]

EC DUB EC DUB EC DUB EC DUB EC DUB EC DUB you stole from ECW Eric

[@AcaciaApparition]

I like ecw but it had to die

[@JuanCena23]

Weird take. But most modern fans want any alternative to die.​@@AcaciaApparition

[@RobertMcIntyre-z7n]

Lewis Shirley Hall William Martinez Richard

[@sammymorales6838]

If Haku actually went out and took it seriously they were done lol

[@blackraven85_1]

Hate to break it to you, but this is fiction. Haku had friends on the other side and vice versa and I doubt he had beef with any DX members. Touch grass.

[@sammymorales6838]

@@blackraven85_1 JBL did an interview about the WWE having real conversations“what if Haku came out we we’re screwed” and others have said the same about that incident lol

[@sammymorales6838]

@@blackraven85_1 also everyone had beef with DX members (the click) around that time lol hate to break it to you, touch grass

[@andrewft31]

@@sammymorales6838Haku had left the WWF long before the Kliq existed, the only one he had any dealings with was Shawn Michaels, and once in WCW he may have had brief dealings with Vinnie Vegas, the Diamond Studd and Jean Paul, but they weren’t the Kliq yet. So he had no real animosity towards any of those guys. He was friends with Hall and Nash, who are also friends with Triple H and Waltman.

[@sammymorales6838]

@@andrewft31 what I’m trying to say if he was in WWE DX would be scared lol because they had beef with everyone and Haku is not someone you’d mess with

[@aikhis]

The Kim.jong il of professional wrestling... in a couple year Eric will have been the one who invented professional wrestling,

[@wesleywarsmith1113]

Nobody remembers this because we all stoped watching by then LOL.

[@blackraven85_1]

Clearly you were wrong and should stop using the word nobody. I remember this happening and I was watching both shows at the time.

[@frankthetank819]

Couldn’t stand this guy 😂😂😂 lol

[@DutchDragon1988]

I still can't, thinks to highly of himself imo, ruined and killed WCW and almost did the same to TNA

[@poptartmadison3216]

@@DutchDragon1988 He can't give a compliment without complimenting himself. He gave X-Pac credit for using the character that WCW gave him to enhance DX, give me a break.

[@JuanCena23]

Russo is worse in my opinion and had more to do with the death of the company through his nonsensical booking. Even his wwe work is overrated

[@poptartmadison3216]

@@JuanCena23 Russo's awful I won't argue that point, I can't stand Eric Bischoff most of the time though, he only gives out underhanded comments and he deflects blame

[@andrewft31]

@@DutchDragon1988Eric Bischoff was the first to have WCW make a profit and the first to run it with actual knowledge of the business having worked for Vern Gagne. The guys before Bischoff made a lot of horrible decisions like letting Undertaker go or trying to turn Flair into a gladiator and letting him leave to WWF with their belt. Bischoff made WCW profitable and Nitro and having it be live was all Bischoff’s ideas. The problem was the people above Bischoff started to get involved, making him tone down the content and forcing him to continue the nWo which is what was making them a lot of money. He wanted to start winding it down after the Hogan-Sting match but his bosses said no and that is what lead to him being fired. Then Russo lost $60 million in a year so they brought Eric back but it was already too late to save it. They tried everything though like having Kidman beat Hogan and a bunch of other random stuff.

[@EyeSeeSports]

I still find his story to be wrong. I've heard him say before that he was right there when they came to the gate. PLUS, he couldn't have been in the ring. DX was there early, it was clearly bright out. Nitro was at 8pm start time. His timeline is off.

[@GrymmSoul]

You can't have that both ways. "DX was early so he couldn't be in the ring...but also the show had already started at 8, hurrhurr derrrrp!" .... So, in other words, Bischoff totally could've been in the ring, DX didn't show up early, and there are two entire seasons of the year when there's still daylight at 8 pm...and the DX invasion angle happened during the first of the two, LOL! Did you want to hilariously contradict yourself a few more times in a public platform? That you "still find his story wrong," says infinitely more about you, than it does about Bischoff's factual anecdote....which is self-deprecating...and would not have gained, nor accomplished, anything for Bischoff or (retroactively) WCW if it had been a lie (and those details can't possibly be confused, so it's not like Bischoff is wildly misremembering how it all happened. Not to mention that RAW and Nitro were both filmed live by the time the DX invasion angle happened....that everyone involved has stated that DX showed up while WCW was filming...that WCW fans at Nitro came pouring out of The Scope to see DX...and the fact that, you know, IT"S ALL BEEN RECORDED AND SHOWN IN MULTIPLE WWE DOCUMENTARIES AND CLIPPED ALL OVER KZbin. Hahahahahaha!

[@shyguy85]

@@GrymmSoul do you have a life?

[@markevans7937]

​@@GrymmSoulbro.....calm down.

[@GrymmSoul]

@@markevans7937 Neat, another person who is so limited and/or psychopathic as to not be able to grasp how basic human emotions work...well, that, or someone so insecure and attention starved that they'd desperately try to insist that others are upset when it couldn't be more obvious that they aren't, lol. Here's a clue: Laughter is not a sign of anger or upset. You're welcome! 😏 (Oof, I used a smirking emoji so now Mark is going to try to "cheer me up from a deep depression" or whatever emotional state that lizard-man brain of his associates with smiling, lol....)

[@cjmoss51]

Keep trying to tell ppl that Bischoff is a hack. Theres a cottage industry of wrestlers that did better in WWE than they ever would have in WCW after he took over. The only reason he made it was b/c Vince refused to change. Once he did it was over relatively quickly. He is a product of the sleazy environment that he was hired into.

[@GrymmSoul]

Might want to learn what terms mean before trying to use them in public platforms. Lol, "cottage industry." Ah yes, I too remember when RAW matches were filmed from the private residences of every wrestler who each had a wrestling ring in their houses, presided over by the three referees the WWE had, who could all magically teleport between every wrestler's home located all over the country, and yet filmed on a weekly, 1 to 3 hour show....😂 (Cottage Industry; noun: a business or manufacturing activity carried on in a person's home)

[@andrewft31]

Austin was a midcarder when Bischoff took over WCW as was Foley, Triple H, Nash, Hall and Taker left under the previous management. Eric was going to keep Austin but Ric Flair talked him into firing him. Eric Bischoff worked under Vern Gagne prior to joining WCW, so unlike the guy before him Jim Herd, had experience in the business and understood, Jim Herd had worked for Dominos prior to WCW. Jim Herd wanted to turn Flair into a gladiator and let him leave to WWF with their belt. WCW didn’t start making money until Eric Bischoff took over. Eric is responsible for a lot of the changes in the business like guaranteed contracts, live weekly shows. Technically he is responsible for Steve Austin’s push in WWF. He signed Hall and Nash, then the Curtain Call happened and Triple H got punished, he was suppose to win the 96 King of the Ring not Austin. So had he not signed Hall and Nash, the Curtain Call wouldn’t have happened and Austin would have remained in the midcard.

[@LRayWilliams]

I was in the media. We were supposed to do interviews with WCW that day but they declined. That was unusual. Then we drove to Hampton an interviewed members of WWE. Then I went home and watched both and discovered the DX invasion. Then I said that’s why. WCW had been very accommodating till that point Randy Savage cut a promo for my weekly sports highlight show