Eric Bischoff Speaks About Turning Down a WWE Angle
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Eric Bischoff is the former WCW President, and he revealed the one angle that he turned down while he was working for the WWE. He spoke about it on the 83 Weeks Podcast. Eric was asked to come as a member of Vince McMahon’s “Kiss My Ass Club”.
He turned down this angle as he believes it didn’t make sense at the time.
Eric Bischoff Turned Down an Angle As It Made No Sense To Him
“The only time I spoke up about creative was not too long after I first got there and I was in Santa Monica and I got emailed a scene in the ring and that scene would have resulted at the end of it all… this was back when Vince had the kiss my ass club,” Bischoff said.
“It built up and led to Vince making me kiss his ass in the middle of the ring like so many others had done before me. I read that and said that makes no sense. I get it in the moment, I get it in that episode and scene, yeah that’s a good scene but in a larger broader context it makes absolutely no sense.
“There was no heat, there was no angle, there was no nothing. It was just a spontaneous moment that would’ve gotten a cheap pop and it would’ve cast a really really dense fog over anything else that I was going to do in the future.
It would eliminate many potential storylines going forward. So I got that email on a Saturday, I was supposed to fly out to Monday Night RAW on Sunday and before I left I gave a call and said ‘Look, I’ll do whatever you guys want me to do, you’re paying me to perform, you’re not paying me to critique your creative and I firmly believe that.
If that’s what you want me to do, I’ll do it but here’s why I don’t think it makes any sense right now. Maybe down the road, but right now, this makes no sense.’ I left it at that, didn’t hear another word, got to TV on Monday and it was gone.
Not another word was said about it”. Eric Bischoff’s arrival in WWE shocked many people as he was WWE’s arch-enemy during the Monday Night Wars. He proudly stated in…
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