Former WCW president Eric Bischoff recently took to his podcast, “83 Weeks,” to talk about several professional wrestling topics.
Here are the highlights:
How surprised he was that WWE would have The Fiend lose to Goldberg:
I’m surprised, honestly, for a couple of reasons. At least when I was in WWE, I don’t know what the situation is now, but his merchandise, they couldn’t produce it fast enough. It appeared to me, at least, that The Fiend was going to be one of those characters that could be an Undertaker-esque type character over the long term.
How he was surprised WWE put over Goldberg after he “shit the bed” the last time he was in Saudi Arabia:
So given the trajectory of The Fiend character, I was really surprised. Nothing against Bill but he’s not a full-timer, he’s a part-timer, and Bill pretty much shit the bed last time he was in Saudi Arabia, so I found that shocking, particularly the way they did it, as quickly as they did it, and a lot of that might have had to do with the fact that Bill’s not really the right guy to go out there and have a 20-minute match with a guy like The Fiend.
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H/T 411Mania for the transcriptions
