Eric Bischoff spoke to ITR’s Kenny McIntosh, at a live show in 2016, about why there’s nothing he could’ve done to save WCW but details some of the corporate bureaucracy he had to deal with. Subscribe to the channel for more clips of our live shows and interviews, and don't forget to like and comment too!

The woman was called Terri Tingle in case anyone's wondering

"This dosent work for me Brother" - Hulk Hogan

@ladistar

Жыл бұрын

Bahahahahahaha damn

@Zebojr2kool

6 ай бұрын

Bitter smarks. They hate Hogan cause they were told it was cool to hate him. They love a business that he did more for than anyone else but they hate him. They love Benoit who murdered a child but hate Hulk cause he protected his character. They love Flair who is likely a predator but hate Hogan. Sad bunch of jokes.

At least Eric is consistent with the AOL/Time Warner changes affecting plans for WCW. Bad booking may have made a bad in-ring product and pissed off talent but apparently wasn't the absolute cause of the end of WCW

@RyTrapp0

2 жыл бұрын

Yea, at that point the in-ring content is almost irrelevant. I mean, a LOT of us were watching for the actual wrestling talent(specifically why we were watching WCW over WWF, it was just plain better wrestling at the time since it wasn't Vince's obsession with gigantic body builders that were mediocre in the ring), but we're still watching for the show too - and, when the show just gets too hard to watch, most of us don't stick around for the matches. The problem with bad writing in wrestling is that it ALWAYS just comes off as so intelligence insulting, since we're already suspending disbelief far enough anyway for good writing lol

@SmithCommaBenjamin

Жыл бұрын

It's conveniently left out that WCW lost over $100M in it's last 2 years, and only had 2 years of profit in it's 10yr existence... as Jim Ross said best "They(AOL/Time Warner) weren't going to have a loosing entity for the hell of it" If WCW was turning money, it would have stayed.

@TingTong2568

Жыл бұрын

@@SmithCommaBenjamin good point there

@WCWFanForever

10 ай бұрын

@@SmithCommaBenjamin That's not true they didn't want it could have made all the money in the world fact is in 97-98 they wanted it gone. Lex Luger said it best he was at a Napa convention they invited him and Turner, not Ted Turner the Turner corps didn't mention one fucking thing about WCW. WCW is making them tons of money and they didn't mention one thing about it for their future programming that tells you right there they never cared for it wheater it made money or not there is so much b.s about WCW fact is Turner/Time Warner/AOL didn't want it felt you had to be stupid to like Wrestling Ted Turner and a small group of people gave a shit about it everyone else felt Wrestling was a joke.

@liquidsnake6879

9 ай бұрын

@@SmithCommaBenjamin Tbh i don't think those people wanted WCW either way, everyone is consistent that a LOT of people at Turner always wanted wrestling off the air and saw it as trash tv that was beneath them, no doubt Russo's era only made this perception worse, but even when WCW was making money there were people trying to get rid of it and by all accounts the only reason they didn't succeed earlier was due to Ted Turner, who was dilluted and pushed out after the AOL merger. The merger was approved by the FTC in January 2001, and by March 2001 WCW had been sold to the WWF, all it took was pushing Ted out of the way. At the time, Eric even offered to buy it and keep producing it for them and they just needed to keep it on the air, note that for example even in 2001 Thunder was still the highest rated show on TBS. It was not a business decision, it was a decision based on the idea that wrestling was beneath their corporate image.

Just for those interested, the people Eric is kinda hesitant to name are Terri Tingle (heh) and Joe Uva.

@jackmason4320

10 ай бұрын

Thank you. I just checked Joe Uva's Likened page. It says he worked for TBS from 1984-2001. He's education background is communication, and he couldn't even do basic research on who or what he was dealing with. lol

Just discovered all these videos love listening to bischoff talking about his time back then!

The executives not knowing what day Monday Nitro aired is probably the dumbest thing ever in the meeting.

@0tt0z

9 ай бұрын

The business world is full of boot lickers and a small group that actually do the work.

@Redhotshawntexas

9 ай бұрын

If you believe that, you’re the biggest mark of the day.

@harpdrago7422

5 ай бұрын

Eric probably should of known who these senior execs were

Why are these segments, so damn short? How do i get the full interview? DAMN!!!

4:10 The exec that Bischoff is referring to is Terri Tingle

WCW barely got a mention in AOL/TimeWarner financial statements. They viewed it as an expensive and embarrassing TV show.

@rolltide9547

3 ай бұрын

It was losing money.

His story I could visualize it very good interview

Is this full interview available for viewing and if so where?

This was great

For Anyone who don't understands this: Basically you are hiring a marketing agency, a company who is not an independent company but under a bigger company. We called it holding company. Thus the decision is profits and interest for holding company. Not the marketing agency, company. So yea, Eric can't do anything

Greatest RAW manager of all time !

@rtmachine2019

Жыл бұрын

I wish wwe would bring back gm storylines

Terry tingle!

That the problem with WWE. Vince McMahon doesn't have control. Hopefully Tony Khan keep control of AEW for years to come.

@FF-iz4su

6 ай бұрын

That’s good because Vince McMahon being the head of creative for the last 10 years before Triple H took over was trash

Not adding Thunder would really have helped.

@bethcraig5286

20 күн бұрын

That was a Turner idea..Eric has said he fought it

Man Bischoff should do a podcast and name every name that pretty much shut down WCW

@audiosex

2 жыл бұрын

He has a podcast!

@quigonjinn5349

2 жыл бұрын

No not his that only pertains to us wrestling geeks. Something like Joe Rogan

It’s funny nowadays TNT/TBS whatever they are called would kill for the ratings WCW drew at that time…

Terri Tingle was the name of the Lady 😅

WCW was a victim of Time Warner corporate big shots that didn't want to be in the wrestling business.

3:27 Nonsensical dolly shot

I always wonder about Bischoff saying he didn't know Ted was not in charge and he didn't know these executives. Seems like he should have known. Also, really? If WCW had been profitable in 99-2000, they still would have cancelled? Crazy.

@bethcraig5286

20 күн бұрын

Eric had a investor and was ready to pay tw and AOL their licensing fees if thwy sold.him wcw...they didn't want wrestling on tnt or tbs anymore...thunder was tbs highest rated show at the time...

going to stop watching Inside the Ropes if they keep these huge banner ads on there videos

Ah, yes, Standards and Practices. You'll never find a more retched hive of scum and villainy.

That woman was 20 years ahead 😂😂😂

His bed is obviously made of paper mache

If ATM Eric and Russo hadn’t run the company into the ground, would Kellner have cancelled the TV contract? I doubt it. The massive financial losses made it easy for him. If they were making money and doing solid ratings they would have continued or sold to Fusion so Eric could rebrand and continue

@curthennig9448

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! They made the decision for Jamie so easy by sinking this ship. If they were still riding high,Kellner wouldn't have done a thing. Bischoff is a con man and is always making excuses for his poor decisions. Just listen to all the ex WCW wrestlers and what went on during their stays there. Everything was pretty much on the fly and then they had to run it through the 2 biggest bozos with even bigger egos: Hogan and Nash! This case has been reviewed and is now closed. No more revisionism you money bleeder Bischoff.

@MrPerfect2000Z

Жыл бұрын

More like Kellner and all the executives never liked wrestling and were looking for any excuse to get rid of it

@curthennig9448

Жыл бұрын

@@MrPerfect2000Z They may not have liked wrestling but when WCW was bringing in huge revenue, Kellner was not going to kill the golden goose.

" what we been doing was doing pretty well." wasn't this wcw in the 2000's where it was being very incompetent?

@MrPerfect2000Z

6 ай бұрын

This meeting was in 98

I have a learning disability and for Terri to say that is…STUPID!

Bishoff will never take responsibility for the fall of WCW , till this day he always blames the higher ups, but the bottom line is that besides the NWO WCW was not as good at storytelling when it came to wrestling the way Vince McMahon and the creative forces supporting him at WWE once the attitude era started being successful, once the NWO storyline got old creatively Bishoff had nothing else to come after that, they wasted elite talent like Chris Jericho, Eddie Guerrero, and kept them in the cruiser weight division and when they went to WWE they became heavyweight champions and stars, that’s just 1 example of how WWE eventually pulled ahead of the great 2 to 3 year run of great WCW wrestling

@bethcraig5286

20 күн бұрын

Why can't you accept that they tied e4ics hands by cutting his budget and dictating what he could do ..why did nitro numbers.not go up when Russo who was the one that got WWEs numbers back up couldn't do the same for WCW? tw/AOL killed wcw..

Typical not my fault answer from Bischoff.

Ted Turner, most probable patron of the Georgia Guidestones and infamous Globalist, owned a pro wrestling company who's hottest story angle ever was the "New World Order". Coincidence?🤔

@liquidsnake6879

9 ай бұрын

Yes because Ted had nothing to do with that lol

Strongly dislike. Happy for him that he’s such a badass though.

Eric is full of it. Refuses to take responsibility for WCW's failure.

@audiosex

2 жыл бұрын

pfft

@RyTrapp0

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly this just makes you sound uninformed. These aren't 'new' claims or anything, nor was Bischoff ever the first to bring them up. I mean, there's literally BOOKS written about it...

@ElfRightsActivist

2 жыл бұрын

@@RyTrapp0 Okay mark.

@RyTrapp0

2 жыл бұрын

@@ElfRightsActivist LMAO, yea brah, WCW is just playing some s00per d00per 4D chess long game, right? This is ALL just one big ol work, oh yes, of course!

@ryanrusso2954

Жыл бұрын

he says turner wanted to clean it up and make it more family friendly but if you watch it in 99-2000 it was raunchier than ever

Bischoff shoots on the one point in life when he was relevant

@RyTrapp0

2 жыл бұрын

...and? That is typically why people are asked to be interviewed - to talk about relevant points in their life

@turtlehead2

2 жыл бұрын

@@RyTrapp0 he’s milking the shit out of it don’t you think? Nah you don’t. Carry on.

@turtlehead2

2 жыл бұрын

@@RyTrapp0 you’re quite the little Bischoff sympathizer. How much is he paying you?

@curthennig9448

Жыл бұрын

@@turtlehead2 His name is Garrett and he is still probably under a TNA contract!

@curthennig9448

Жыл бұрын

@@RyTrapp0 What the hell is Bischoff known for besides opening up Turner's checkbook and emptying it? Oh yeah he botched the NWO angle to the nth degree. Go back in history and show me the great booking he did from 1995-2000. He let Hogan walk all over him. OK Terry whatever you want. This is your show and I'll just stand by and appease your ego! Tell me what Bret Hart thinks of him? Or all the others that couldn't wait to get out of WCW. And we know that list was long.

to hell with the corporate side of WCW. You , Hogan and every ex wwe reject killed WCW.