On a recent episode of his 83 Weeks Podcast, Eric Bischoff discussed a variety of topics.
During the podcast, Bischoff discussed Vince McMahon’s return as Chairman of the WWE Board of Directors to investigate a possible company sale and assist the company in negotiating its next television deal.
He stated that Vince would do what was best for the company.
“Hard to say. You have to get inside of the head of Vince McMahon, and trying to do that is daunting. He’s a complex dude. But let’s just look at the patterns. What’s best for business? One of the things that we know is Vince McMahon makes decisions that all of us, at some time or another, were surprised at. Whether it was bringing me in, after years of competing against him and almost putting him out of business, and I had some pretty crappy things to say, I did some pretty crappy things. I was the enemy, I was the Antichrist. Had I walked into WWE headquarters back in 1997, I don’t think I would have walked out until I got hired, and I was one of the key figures on-camera for whatever it was, three or four years. Nobody thought that would happen, including me. Nobody thought that he’d bring back Ultimate Warrior. But this has been part of his public persona, is that he will do what’s best for the business, even if it’s distasteful as hell, even if it makes him throw up in his own mouth in his private time. If it’s best for business, that’s what he’s gonna do,” Bischoff said.
Bischoff expressed his belief that keeping the current writing team would be best for business.
“Now if you accept that, and you go, ‘Yeah, that’s probably true, maybe it’s 100% true, maybe it’s 70% true, but it’s true,’ if you accept that and you step back and you take your emotion and your wrestling fandom out of the equation, what’s best for business? Currently, I think the existing creative team, with Triple H and Bruce, all the way down to a lot of writers that I do know personally that are fantastic talent, what’s best for business is you let them keep doing what they’re doing because it’s working. So there’s a part of me that says, ‘Yeah, even if Vince takes it private, I could see him continuing to allow that process to exist as it does as long as it continues to be successful. I believe that in my heart, having worked with Vince. Hell, he brought me in as executive director of SmackDown. Come on. It didn’t work out for a lot of reasons, most of them because of me, doesn’t matter. It didn’t work out. Maybe I just didn’t meet his expectations, I don’t know. But it doesn’t matter. The fact is, that was a big position, and maybe he hated my guts, I don’t know, but he brought me in [and] gave me an opportunity. I think that aspect of Vince’s nature is what allows me to believe that even if takes the company private, I don’t think you’re going to see a radical change in what we’re seeing right now, when it comes to creative,” Bischoff said.
You can listen to the complete podcast below:
(H/T to Fightful for the transcription)
