Eric Bischoff SHOOTS On WCW Losing The Monday Night Wars!

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[@InsideTheRopes]

Did WCW have any chance of winning the Monday Night Wars? Let us know in the comments.

[@FarajiCouncil]

Yeah if bischoff had pulled his head out of Hogan's ass

[@gabrieljones6218]

wcw was off the chart with ratings as soon Vince Russo came in wcw was finished I would say wcw was way far better show my favorite was sting.

[@jordanbailey5456]

@@gabrieljones6218 ratings dropped before russo tho

[@silxix2599]

​@@gabrieljones6218 WWE has done what they've done many times over the years, copy the formula of others success. WWF/E really took the attitude from ECW. They became hardcore, & ended up with ECW top talent. The imitated all the hardcore stuff ECW did, plus The way ECW push the female wrestlers was what WWE did with their female "wrestlers" Lita, Sable, Debra, Sunny. Like Ted Turner said, they used sexual content. But before those women became a thing, ECW pushed Dawn Marie, Lita, FRANCINE, Tommy Dreamers wife & more. You can say Austin was born in ECW before being toned down to the Ring Master in WWE. If ECW was in The USA network & kept their talent, they could've been greater. Plus ECW introduced talents, like Jericho, Mysterio and Eddie Guerrero... But Heyman didn't have the money the other two major companies had.

[@robertormond2629]

Not if the parent company didn't want it.

[@Bennary]

My favourite wrestling conspiracy is that WWE planted Vince Russo in WCW to sabotage them, and didn’t tell Russo about it

[@vampirascoffin870]

if you believe that you must believe in dragons

[@JDILLA197]

What about punk being planted in AEW to sabotage them lol

[@silxix2599]

It's more likely they planted the NWO Hall, Nash and Hogan. Cause they made themselves great over the younger stars, then self destructed & made their triumphant WWE return... Then Nash blamed Russo to cover up the NWO...

[@Mavvvzz]

@@JDILLA197he literally gave them their best ratings of all time wdym

[@JDILLA197]

@@Mavvvzz conspiracy lmaooo

[@Carnius797]

Eric knows more than he’s putting on. He’s seen some crazy shit

[@robertormond2629]

even if WCW was still profitable, AOL/Time Warner didn't want it. They did want the Atlanta Braves either, and they were very profitable.

[@eveningstar4543]

I remember the Braves being the most popular team in the 90s. Crazy to think Aol/Warner didn't want them.

[@robertormond2629]

@@eveningstar4543 they held on them a little longer. I think it was 07.

[@beerguy177]

as soon as russo took over creative it was over for them no disrespect to Eric

[@BannedSports]

Wasn't Russos fault for the millionth time

[@beerguy177]

@@BannedSports yes it was Eric was doing numbers as soon as that guy walked in it all went the same the way as janel grants head lol

[@beerguy177]

@@BannedSports crapped on with pole matches David Arquette and himself as world champion take your pick lol

[@SamBerbatov2010]

It wasn’t Russo’s fault, nor Bischoffs, it was AOL’s fault for not really giving a crap and letting it take care of itself. Whereas WWE was much more organised.

[@beerguy177]

@@SamBerbatov2010 yeah they saw no value in pro wrestling I can't disagree

[@elliotagain7731]

Legends roundtable was awesome 🤟

[@davidwarburton2915]

WWE v. WCW is an easy story. One was a family business and the other was a division of a corporate conglomerate. The family had to win or they’d be ruined. The corporation could easily drop the division it didn’t want in the first place.

[@ryan2flyin]

Still wild to me that Vince hired Eric after everything. I remember when Eric came out on WWE television, I was shocked

[@adrenaliner91]

Just think about turning on Raw and see Eric Bischoff on that fateful day in 2001 if WCW had won and bought WWF and ECW.. we probably never would have seen Vince ever again like it was planned in 2007.

[@7timecenturycyclistvespada982]

We’re supposed to get a derecho this evening. Here in Kansas yeah right weather man is always wrong!

[@rawrjay420]

i love his honesty 😂

[@freshparkfilms]

is bischoff in the hall of fame yet?

[@matthewhutchinson1167]

Yes. Went in 2021.

[@freshparkfilms]

@matthewhutchinson1167 thank you Matthew

[@jonathanmartin5145]

Wwe give in to TV telling them what to do not giving what the fans won't

[@GuideDogManor]

I often wonder how today's product would be had WCW won the Monday night war. Would the Rock and Austin have been signed, would Triple H, Taker, Angle, Kane etc have gone over too?

[@newjerseyballer]

That is an interesting take…WCW’s business model contrasted WWF’s. WCW portrayed it as a real sport: time limits, the commentary during the match, etc. I think the theatrics wouldve been a lot less, because WCW wasnt good in that department (ie Glacier).

[@MinneappleTwinkies]

Thanks Mankind

[@l-wolverine2211]

I blame Ted Turner, Vince Russo, and the execs of Turner Sports for ruining WCW. Yet, I won’t blame these people for ruining AEW, since they’re doing it to themselves.

[@vampirascoffin870]

and put Hogan and Eric they also killed that company

[@brianshields7485]

​@@vampirascoffin870yeah it was a team effort

[@brianshields7485]

It was a team effort

[@RyanRumbles434]

Wow. You hit that nail on the head on two accounts. All true and AEW can't pass this off on anyone else.

[@R3troZone]

Eric Bischoff ruined WCW. He spent millions and millions of dollars buying up talent to get ahead in the ratings and never made any of that money back. By the time he left the damage had been done which is why it was sold off.

[@theonofswords3764]

Wcw even at its height was never as good as wwe, the sting nwo storyline was well done until the starrcade 97 disaster, aside from that Goldberg and ddp were the only real stars they created, everything else was just names that they bought from wwe and who they hadn’t a clue how to use. And young stars like Eddie guerrero and Chris Jericho had to leave wcw to become stars

[@navy4181]

Does that mean Bischoff would’ve gotten the XFL as well?

[@BlueDragonAkira]

“Austin is out of the top paying job” yeah how’d that turn out for ya buddy

[@davetaylor2645]

If WCW wins war, does TNA exist? Because when WWE won, he knew he wasn't going to get a job there anytime soon, so that's one of the reasons why he started it. ECW was already gone and at the time Heyman hated WCW so much, he'd never have gone back there....or would he?

[@darrenholmes2490]

It’s been 25 years who gives a f*ck

[@jasoncook7378]

Apparently you do. You are here.

[@jordanbailey5456]

seriously why are you here

[@futurefunk88eddins96]

Lol hahaha. Right.

[@CeemPlay]

Due to you & Russo's incompetence

[@Bertaut]

The gospel according to Jim Cornette.

[@vampirascoffin870]

eric is still trying to live the wcw days , bro you killed your own company along with the bs you did behind the scenes , lets be real eric!!!!!!

[@5150crazyfun]

I actually wish WCW had won the war. WWE has ignored their fans and stopped putting in effort ever since all their competition like WCW and ECW went under. And the wrestling business hasn’t been the same ever since.

[@Onthejazz247]

WCW should have won as much as WWE marks would never admit it. WWF succeeded by becoming something other than a wrestling company. WCW's big failure was in trying to match them and hire Vince Russo and be that way too. THe attitude Era wasn't wrestling, it was "sports entertainment". if WCW had just held their breath and weathered the ratings attitude brought in, they wouldve eventually outlasted them by putting out actual product. I lived in the NE. THe WWF's backyard. From '95-'98 kids in my neighborhood were talking more about Hogan, Sting, and Goldberg than MIchaels, Austin, and Rock. Atitude was dead by '03. If WCW had focused on putting out a wrestling show, they would've clobbered them by that point. WHo were the biggest WWE draws in '03-'04? Eddie? Benoit? Fucking Hogan? Half of WWE was powered by WCW talent 2 years after invasion.

[@Lola_the_Cavapoo]

All i can see if that glaring bald spot on the side on the interviewers head.