Hulk Hogan's 1998 WCW Contract: Worst Wrestling Contract Ever

[@ShinSuperSaiyajin]

Hogan to the contract: "works for me brother"

[@TheGreatDevlin]

Hogan to Turner: "Iiiiiii'm the man!"

[@lgr2284]

😆😆😆🤣🤣💯💯💯💯

[@makaveli4205]

Brock Lesnar probably makes more than that part time

[@stanhenderson9928]

Dude had the upside of 25 million, with all creative control for 4 years. Damn the best contract in wrestling history.

[@vampirascoffin870]

But its amazing how hogan makes it seem that brett harts contract was the reason wcw died lol

[@makaveli4205]

Brock Lesnar has the best contract now part time

[@kyledamron]

I mean maybe the best at the time for him but it's way too one-sided

[@liquidsnake6879]

@@makaveli4205 Some guys in WCW got paid for years and never had to show up to work once so....

[@robott6696]

@@liquidsnake6879 and higan showed up but didnt really "work"

[@ChaseSchleich]

You skipped a VERY important line in the license fees section. You said "I don't know what that means." and skipped ahead. The next sentence in that paragraph said that Hogan gets 25% of all non-talent specific NWO merchandise. So he's getting 50% of all his merchandise (which is just insane. Most guys were lucky to get 10%) AND he's getting 25% of all NWO merchandise that does not have anything to do with Hulk Hogan (plus the giant fee he got just for wearing the shirts). So he was getting paid for his own merch and the merch that was not even his. If Hall and Nash had the same deal when it comes to NWO merch, that means WCW only kept 25% of profits. They then had to split that 25% between all the other 100 members of the NWO. WCW was making NOTHING off all that merchandise. What horrible business dealings. The company brought in dump trucks full of cash for years, but it doesn't look they were able to keep much of it at all considering what Hogan was getting plus Hall, Nash, Bret Hart, Savage, Sting, and Flair were all getting (not as much as Hogan I'm sure, but still a big chunk). Jesus....

[@dougdrazga4461]

This is mentioned in the Death of WCW book. Jericho's fiance bought action figures of Jericho and Malenko, but the receipt showed it was for Hogan and Sting, so Hogan and Sting collected the residuals. It's good to be the Hulk, brother ...

[@Thor-Orion]

Scott and Kev had to sue to get NWO tshirt money.

[@MentalLiberation]

And yet, Syxx's shirt was rumoured to be a contention point that got Syxx fired. Dude, you were making money off the guy or could have. And you want him gone from the company? What the heck?

[@ralph8677]

"Hogan gets 25% of all non-talent specific NWO merchandise." What makes this crazier is that this contract was signed the same year the NWO split into NWO Hollywood & NWO Wolfpac. If I'm reading this correctly, Hogan got paid for Wolfpac merchandise, even though he was in the rival stable. And since it was an off-shoot stable, did he get residuals for LWO merchandise as well?

[@end7essx]

Technically, Lanny Poffo had a better deal. He got paychecks for 5 years and only worked a single match, which may or may not have actually ever happened.

[@sssarzzz]

that $$$ came from his brother, who took that amount less.

[@robjackson4050]

correct me if i'm wrong but wasn't he on tv in a non-wrestling role during that time?

[@liquidsnake6879]

@@sssarzzz That's not what Lanny said but there's more examples James Mitchell was one, got paid for 2 years from 98 to early 2000 without showing up for work once lol WCW was just great for a lot of guys and i can understand people being salty af that it's gone

[@sssarzzz]

@@liquidsnake6879 if I had to effectively pay for your little brother to have a job would u tell him? With others getting paid while never working it was their contracts get rolled over cause no one paying attention. Little different then signing Randy's brother and never using him, that's not someone forgetting or not paying attention and having their contracts roll over. Its also something that sounds like Randy Savage would do for family. And the guy in charge who made the deal verified randy took less so Lanny could have a wrestling job

[@liquidsnake6879]

@@sssarzzz Question is who ever said Randy was taking a paycut for Lanny, cause considering other guys got paid to sit at home for years who weren't related to anyone the idea that they just forgot about Lanny makes sense lol wouldn't be the only guy that mess of an office forgot about lol

[@Vesperitis]

This single document, if its real, is all the proof you need to know that Eric Bischoff should not complain too loudly about how other people run their promotions.

[@EveryDooDarnDiddlyDay]

Tony Kahn is a raging mark, has some decent talent but a lot of chaff. Bischoff had a blank check and the biggest names in the business. I think they both sound like idiots.

[@robjackson4050]

@@EveryDooDarnDiddlyDay i mean did wcw have any talent that would be considered bad during that time? i can't think of any

[@liquidsnake6879]

@@robjackson4050 Brutus Beefcake for one lol literally only got signed because he was buddies with Hogan, same deal with Honky Tonk

[@yujirohanma5199]

@@liquidsnake6879 That's a shocker 😲 with Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake being Hulk Hogan's best friend n Honky Tonk Man a very close friend. The ONLY reason WCW signed them. Terry Bollea financially and creatively, crippled WCW n WCW executives weren't very wise to it. Complete Diaster

[@Deadguy2322forreal]

Bischoff didn’t negotiate the deals for the top stars, they were done through Turner Entertainment, and negotiated by people with no wrestling knowledge, then Bischoff had to try to work around most of the main eventers being able to veto his plans.

[@yy-hj4br]

Tanahashi in NJPW is the best Ace a company can ask for, the opposite of Hulk Hogan. He gets giddy when he puts over younger talent, and doesn't mind taking the J-O-B.

[@LastTorgoInParis]

his hair is the opposite too!

[@yy-hj4br]

@@DannyBZ9 I realize I can't tell your tone if you are defending Hogan or agreeing that Tanahashi is a better Ace but Americans will remember Hogan anyways

[@LastTorgoInParis]

nobody knows any Japanese wrestlers here. i love it but its too niche in the already niche western market. Western culture can penetrate Asian market but Asian market struggles to do so in the west

[@jcaceres516]

@@DannyBZ9 dumb point

[@speedy316uk]

Its a shitty contract Steve for WCW (not for Hogan, for Hogan it was great!) and yes this is part of the reason why it all went wrong for WCW was because of the glass celing that was Hulk Hogan. I think Kevin Nash said it best when he said that you have to play "Hogan's way" or you dont get used.

[@Tim85-y2q]

It's especially not a good deal (for WCW) in 1998. When Hogan jumped in 94 and when he turned heel in 96 he was a game changer for WCW and arguably worth whatever it took to get him, but by 98 I'm not sure he was still providing that much value, and likely didn't have much juice to go elsewhere. Vince certainly wasn't going to pay him like this at that point.

[@ghost-type]

This was a great contract... for Hogan. WCW could have done so much to make this a better contract for themselves. I don't think WWE would have given him anywhere the money he was getting. Don't think WWE wanted him back at the time either so they had a lot more leverage than they believed.

[@mathewwutke575]

In 98 vince did want him back they were calling that's why this contract was so much different then his initial wcw one

[@TheGreatDevlin]

Me: I wanna see his TNA contract Dixie: (Retrieves X Division Championship with her signature and a dollar sign on the back)

[@theinfamousmrsleep]

This is why there's no "creative freedom" in the 'fed, despite what talents say. It's because of puke hogan.

[@DangerDoom9000]

14:18 yeah i felt that one too, thats one of those reaaaallly moments, i wonder if Scott Stiener had the same clause in his contract

[@Tim85-y2q]

To be fair, during this period, Hogan probably did have the least impressive physique of any point in his career.

[@lordcorgi6481]

WWE didn't beat WCW. WCW beat themselves.

[@Vesperitis]

Never has there been a better, or more appropriate summary of that situation.

[@raymondparisza5094]

I would argue Time/Warner killed WCW.

[@steve_jackson9933]

Very true.

[@AM81Daily]

FACT

[@andu1854]

Also Bischoff letting Foley and Austin go, so he could bring in Hogan and all of his untalented friends also didn’t help in long term (Austin stays, he doesn’t break his neck and have his career end shorter)

[@Thatdeal79]

It’s insane to think out of all those big WCW contracts Kevin Nash is the only one that still has any money.

[@joshmau4472]

Could we see the contract where Bischoff lowballed Lex Luger in 1994?

[@AndrewJHopkins]

Steve, this is a fantastic video with great analysis. Just wanted to say thanks. Highly entertaining.

[@hypemaan2462]

I want a game where I could negotiate this contract and the business crumbles because of it

[@gagbum]

it doesn't matter the talent on your roster...it is how that roster is used...

[@rezlifeent]

talk about going in Raw, Hulk and Eric gave it to Ted Turner. I guess this is why Hulk has been dragging Eric along for last 20 years.

[@kirkwood1987]

It's hard to see how it was back then. Back then he was the Michael Jordan of the industry. So the thought at this time was give Hogan whatever he wants. Because as long as we have him we will be fine because he's such a big star. Obviously we have the extremely fortunate position of having watched this play put 20 years ago. So now it's very easy to say "this was so stupid. This shouldn't of happened " but back then we had no point of reference of "what if this turns out bad" so yea don't think it even crossed WCW to take that out of the contract

[@Tim85-y2q]

In 94 he was, in 96 he was. By 98 I'm not so sure he still was. I think it's at least arguable that WCW had already gotten whatever value they were going to get out of Hogan by the time this particular contract was signed.

[@KliqDon1983]

Hogan was brilliant. Milked the game his entire career.

[@vampirascoffin870]

Its funny and amazing how hogan believes and said " bret harts contract was the downfall of wcw "

[@TheGreatDevlin]

I bet he thinks Bret was the downfall of WrestleMania IX too. 😂

[@vampirascoffin870]

@@TheGreatDevlin lollllll never know brotha!!!!!!

[@anthonylucero6458]

Ofcourse it was a really really really bad contract but I'm sure Hogan enjoyed laughing alllllll the way to the 🏦 geez

[@richiebee1984]

YOU MEAN LINDA HOGAN LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK AFTER THEIR DIVORCE!! WHY YOU THINK HE WORKED AND WRESTLED FOR TNA IMPACT FOR SO LONG AND WHY HE APPEARED ON RAW,WRESTLEMANIA 30 AND WRESTLEMANIA 35!!

[@Tim85-y2q]

Knowing what we know now about how Turner was structured, it seems like many of these provisions may have been a way for Hogan to get paid a ton of money without any individual division having to take too big a hit.

[@cheesierspark597]

This contract is wild lmao, WCW destined their company to end with it

[@MentalLiberation]

Talk about building a company around solely one person. I bet that his WWF/E contract was just as egregious.... between 1984-1992

[@BadNewsRuss]

@@MentalLiberation well i dont think Vince is so stupid to sign something like that this shit is mad..

[@GlassesnMouthplates]

Was this why the Majorpod guys found that most/all of the other wrestlers' Toybiz action figures would check out as "Hulk Hogan" on the receipts, possibly indicating that the royalties went to Hogan regardless they're not even figures of himself?

[@House_of_Heathens]

Still pales in comparison to Bobby Bonilla's ongoing payment shenanigans

[@R4ymundo]

Favorite wrestling channel right now.

[@Thor-Orion]

Starrcade 1997 was their best selling PPV ever.

[@andu1854]

And i bet everyone felt completely ripped off though, the heels all won, Hogan turned into baloney monster heel, which was how he wasn’t, and hogan made Sting look like a chump (Sting should have no sold every Hogan move, whacked him with a bat, multiple stinger splashes, and then refuse to let him out of the Deathlock)

[@AssembleShow]

always awesome steve!

[@daltonriser1125]

By the way when you combine this with the outsiders deals that had a clause that guaranteed if someone got a big money contract worth more than theirs they would get a match up to that ampunt

[@Thor-Orion]

No, those contracts excluded Hogan.

[@pulsarstargrave256]

Vince Russo killed WCW with goofy scenarios. Where was Kevin Sullivan during that time?

[@justmike7994]

Even if wcw won the war this contract would had put a death to them eventually.

[@jared9217]

Which contract is better for the individual? This Hogan contract or Bobby Bonilla’s contract with the Mets?

[@DANGMQ]

Hulk Hogan "I am a megalomaniac brother!"

[@twilliamspro]

Reasonable house shows would probably be Venues Hogan deemed to be big enough that his 25% Would be a killer pay day

[@crackedspyglass]

Simply a ludicrous amount of money drawn directly from profit drivers

[@kyledamron]

I'm guessing that $175 per day is his beer money

[@steve_jackson9933]

Hogan was the face of WWF. A lot of people that if it was not for Hogan, the WWF would not have made it. But, the problem is, Hogan was only great during the early '80's to early '90's. WCW getting him made headlines, but he was stale. Vince was smart to get rid of him and let some younger talent start to rise up. I really think the heart of the NWO were Hall and Nash. Yes, it was incredible when Hogan was revealed to be the third man, but after that pop, it felt like it was just Hogan. Hogan really made out with the WCW.

[@davidd9035]

Woah woah woah. Hogan also put over Billy Kidman! That face of the 2004 cruiserweight division

[@adamdenby1282]

Has hulk ever said how much money Metallica was going to pay him to play bass guitar?

[@liquidsnake6879]

None cause he never said that lol

[@clintdomingue]

On the Thunder taping stuff, I know around the summer of 1999 they did one show live and the next week was taped. Was the first show I ever went to and I think the show went to almost midnight.

[@tjjordan4207]

How does one make so much money and waste it? In fact, how does one not care about the company’s success when that success is literally part of how much one can make in bonuses alone?!

[@MarkWhiley]

Hulk had been working XWF tapings prior to joining the WWE in February 2002, unsure how that works into the contract discussions and whether WWE had to pay out the old AOL Time Warner contract or not.

[@Rayen015]

I'd have to see the financials of WCW during these years and probably 2-3 years prior. Also i would want ratings comparing shows with and without Hulk Hogan to see how much of a draw he really was. But that clause about the finishes of matches is just unforgivable. Why have a booker and GM at that point? I mean thats like letting a QB make all personel decisions on a football team. Theu should be consulted, not given charge of.

[@jonathanschmeh5709]

Hogan had a habit of missing TV or PPVs when the readings would be down, for example during the NBA Playoffs or other seasonal events. He would then return when they came back to normal and claim the credit.

[@andu1854]

Never let the biggest ego ever have creative control

[@vilaktube]

Hogan was working without contract for monthes when he signed this new deal in may 98. He met Vince multiple time in public places (retaurants, clubs, stadium skyboxes) during this period of free agency. WCW was afraid he would jump, they had to give him what he wanted to stay. Note: As Bruce Pritchard said, Vince showed in public with Hogan just to make WCW panick and allow his old friend Bollea to obtain the perfect deal. At this time, Viince didn't really need Hogan and he wasn't willing to pay him millions as WCW was doing. But WCW didn't knew it was all show, they though that Vince & Hulk inking a deal was a real possibiility. In final, WCW just gave Hogan what Hogan wanted.

[@MentalLiberation]

14:32 Yea....I felt the same way reading that too. Doesn't help that they just released that Dark Side of the Ring episode either....

[@massivemedia4138]

Actually at that time Hogan wasnt using the juice.. If he where he wasnt using it as much as he was in Wwf . dude thinned out a lot during this time..

[@NickyvMLP]

Didn't he put over Billy Kidman?

[@DonJuanDecepticon]

This should have so many more views. It's super interesting.

[@nickonite]

Luger young talent? He's five years younger than Hogan.

[@99somerville]

Best contract ever. WCW went from losing 10 million a year to making 300 million a year. Everybody was making money.

[@justafanofnerdculture7602]

Yet another reason why WCW went under.

[@mt_baldwin]

To me it was Russo that was the biggest factor in killing WCW. Hogan made the main event scene bad, Russo ruined everything else and the damage he did could not be undone. The other huge factor in WCW's death was at the same time it started to go bad WWF was starting to skyrocket in appeal, attitude era WWF was too powerful and popular for any promotion to stand up against- even modern WWE wouldn't.

[@vampirascoffin870]

Good facts

[@jonathanschmeh5709]

WCW was already starting the death process (the cancer was spreading and going to be fatal) when Russo came over. I think that is why he was hired. It can't believe that any human could look at Russo or listen to him for more than 10 minutes and think "Yup, this is the guy that needs to be in charge of out multimillion dollar company." I think they were looking for a hail mary and it blew up in their face as he proceeded to murder the dying patient.

[@seanmcclure]

Hundreds of wrestlers stated that he frequently used creative control. The only two people who didn’t were Eric Bischoff and Hulk.

[@psrdirector]

this contract probly the top reason they died

[@kieranmcelhill1899]

I wonder how much was his contract in TNA?

[@TheGreatDevlin]

It's just a napkin that says "do whatever you want as long as you keep Kurt" and a bunch of dollar signs

[@JasperJunior94]

Dabble yoo dab ee

[@eroddy2513]

THE DOUBLE EWE SEE DOUBLE EWE

[@EnforcerStevieB]

Ruuuuuuumor

[@davidworden4470]

My childhood hero and my disappointment in manhood

[@robjackson4050]

am i the only one who would be curious to see how this compares to other people's wcw contracts? also i remember him having a fued with kidman who was never a big star anywhere

[@massivemedia4138]

Hell yeah this was a bad contract for one main reason.. The fact that he had creative control over his matches.. This explains why Macho man could never ever have a decent run as champion this explains why Lex couldnt hold the title long this explains that damn finger poke of company doom.. Hogan had the final say on these matches.. Smdh.. Hogan did bring enough sponsors and enough exposure to wrestling. His turn to the darkside was great for business. So i get that but having creative control on how a match goes... No company should ever risk that and it explains why Hogan put over Billy kidman it was in his contract to be reasonable about it so he went with Billy of all people just to be an @$$... Yet though to prove they where bringing in money though think about how much they had to pay Scott Hall and Kevin Nash.. Wcw had the money but they gave people like Hogan to much power.. Damn...

[@Deadguy2322forreal]

Hogan, Hall, Nash and everyone else who made over a certain threshold amount weren’t paid by WCW, but by Turner Entertainment, and their contracts were negotiated by TV talent relations people with no behind-the-scenes knowledge of wrestling. That’s how these terrible deals were given out.

[@jonathanallen3497]

Hulk Hogan vs Ultimate Warrior at WrestleMania 6 was a great match.

[@ralphyfirebird4662]

Lol awesome video man

[@JasonThePPWSoundGuy]

For WCW it was absolutely a horrible contract. But if you offer me the same contract? Fucking right I'm taking it! And after I sign it I'll tell you that you made a horrible decision but hey you offered it so don't be mad I took it.

[@WrestleJuice]

Ok yeah the point is it was a terrible business move for wcw. For Hogan it was amazing 🤣

[@sonofsarek]

If you were Hogan, why would you NOT want creative control if you signed with WCW? You are taking a risk signing with them. He put over The Giant, Luger, Sting, Goldberg, Flair, Arn, and even Billy Kidman (during the goofy Russo era). You really think Hogan jobbing to Jericho would have been believable?

[@Ether101_Prime]

Don't know if this is real or not as it, the scanned paperwork does it a lot of justice but I've seen works go through such details before. BTW, I remember really liking Thunder in Paradise when I was a kid. Its kind of amazing how he got WCW/Turner to cross promote his show and get a contract like this. There might have been larger company wide reasons for keeping Hogan around now that I think about it.

[@UninvitedGhost]

But what percent of National Wrestling Office merch revenue does Teh Hullkster get?

[@marcespinoza6068]

He doesnt deserve credit for dropping the title to Luger as he clearly only did it so he could win the title back on PPV, which he did like a week later lol.

[@andu1854]

Hogans ego killed the 97 starcade main event

[@blackraven85_1]

You're missing Billy Kidman. He pushed for Kidman to beat himself. And Piper. He's put over people

[@WrestleJuice]

That Kidman feud was such a half assed too little too late situation tho.

[@andu1854]

You mean the non title main event that made that match have zero meaning? And he made Kidman look like a chump, Hogan still believes he is the greatest wrestler, even at age 70, and he should still be main eventing Wm

[@shakeandjake_1]

Look at Hall, Nash and Hart's contracts as well. Hogans was the mega worst but WCW threw money at the other three in somewhat similar fashion.

[@RAMOS_DE_67]

There's no way Vince would have offered Hogan a contract anywhere near that in both money and creative control wcw should have offered him half and changed the cc part as well Hogan would probably have signed it and wcw might have turned things around a bit as other wrestlers would have had to take cuts as well.

[@tafua_a]

14:36 WCW Hogan was much smaller than 80's Hogan, just saying

[@Phenomenal1983]

Didn't he put Sting over also

[@markmelo2779]

Ridiculous

[@EnforcerStevieB]

You mean he would have gotten paid........ ON THIS DAY!

[@odin-be-praised8928]

@legaleagle needs to see this

[@maineventkrunch2265]

In hindsight, they probably should have let Hulk go back to Vince.

[@andu1854]

Yes, to this,

[@byroncutler622]

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[@dreamzy9869]

Steve is daddy af 🥰🥰🥰🥵🥵🥵🥵🔥🔥🔥

[@davidbixenspan1909]

It's real. Lawsuit exhibit from the racial discrimination case.

[@jerryjanik480]

That's all add Leslie's money now and Linda's money I've been to a couple House shows where Hogan was at during the WCW are and they were all Buffalo New York

[@TheIrishSicilian]

Well I can't blame him. We'd all take that money to.

[@charlesezrarevmongoosecane5097]

How is it that you forget that him turning heel and forming the NWO made up more than his contract. No other wrestler could have done that. You must have not been around seeing the impact HH had from 84-91. Hogan is bank. It’s bad writing and deals that made WCW tank.

[@Wuvlycuddles]

I believe Hulk was as valuable as this contract suggests, but wrestling audiences get tired of the same shtick and neither Hollywood or Red and Yellow Hogan were going to bring in the same audiences they had in the past. We needed to see a whole new Hulk and that was never going to happen while he had creative control.

[@robott6696]

Sad they didnt pay him according to his wtestling ability, he'd end up owing them...

[@klombernzx]

As much as I despise Hogan, he can actually wrestle. Check out his matches in Japan, lol. Didn't bother showing his skill off in America.

[@fred70829]

Theres a reason everyone hates hogan but doesnt hate austin or rock or cena.

[@Bsfnelz20]

Shitty contract for WCW but TWO SWEET OF A CONTACT FOR HULK HOGAN

[@kirkwood1987]

Insane

[@deddy2339]

Cody: "Hey, TK. I want this as my contract. But let's set the television tapings at 10 per year. And whenever I'm not at an event, everyone should be talking about me. Like 'Where's Cody?' and 'I sure do miss Cody' and 'This show would be so much better with Cody here, by gum!' Because I'm an ATTRACTION."

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

Seethe.

[@jomeeo]

Rent free

[@BrandanTheBroker]

Not a bad contract at all. Ask for what you feel you're worth, if they give it to you then that's on them. Feel the same about Brock's contract.

[@jonathanallen3497]

Hulk Hogan vs Ultimate Warrior at Halloween Havoc 1998 wasn't that good.

[@JCLopez209]

Wait didn't he also get pinned by Billy Kidman? I swear I think he did

[@MetalMilitia83]

No wonder they went under lmao. What clown was writing these contracts?

[@kyledamron]

I wouldn't call lex luger young talent

[@jackc1186]

Danhausen deserves that type of contract

[@fizzyfuzz5878]

He put over Goldberg once. But he was also the orchestrator of the finger poke of doom, that really hurt Goldberg. And never put him over again, which contributed to the death of WCW.

[@mathewwutke575]

That's wrong that was bischoff idea you can listen to it on his podcast Nash said the samething

[@marvelsProtege]

WWE have so much better stars now than in 95, 6 So yes AEW should take because wtf they've all the stars

[@Aizenborgman]

Why dont you go and tell that to Eric bischoff face so he can put you in your place smart boy

[@donwooding4706]

Sad thing about this is if it's TRUE I'm sure savage and hall nash etc asked for the same shit sad really

[@liquidsnake6879]

Love to see the Hulkster milk the money marks for every penny, a beautiful contract and Bischoff needs to stfu about Russo honestly, Bischoff is the biggest idiot in wrestling history lol and i'm a huge Hogan mark but i'd never pay him this much lol People really overstate the creative control though, that's kinda just writing out what is already de-facto true for everyone, no wrestler can be forced to do a job if they don't want to, they have to agree to it, otherwise i'd really like to know who'd force Ken Shamrock to job to anyone in the WWF lol Especially in Hogan's position where you can't just fire him you'd have no choice but to reach some consensus with him, clause or no clause that clause is merely what is the de-facto situation already but doing it in writing

[@Deadguy2322forreal]

Bischoff had nothing to do with the contract, it was Turner Entertainment talent relations that negotiated all deals over a certain dollar amount, and those people had no idea how wrestling works behind the scenes. It was a recipe for disaster, but it wasn’t Bischoff’s fault.