During a recent appearance on “The MMA Hour” podcast, Eric Bischoff stated that his involvement with MLW would likely be a one-off affair but acknowledged that “anything could occur.”
Bischoff is the producer of tonight’s MLW: One Shot, which can be streamed on YouTube.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On his association with MLW: “More than likely, again going back to the travel thing, but look, anything can happen. I’m a spontaneous person and I’ve learned and I’ve known this all my life, but it’s become even more profound to me as I’ve gotten older, maybe wiser is, I love to work hard but I love to work hard having fun. Right now I’m about as comfortable as a human being could be and blessed so I’m good, but we’ll see, you never know.”
On what he misses about wrestling: “It really would be working with talent. I love the process of taking somebody who was having a hard time doing backstage promos or in-rings, and teaching them how to, one, get comfortable, it’s just a matter of overcoming nerves, and teaching them how to communicate in ring or backstage. I love directing talent and producing talent. I do miss that.”
On missing the creative collaboration aspect: I miss the collaboration, creatively. I used to do it in TNA. I love sitting around the table. ‘What if we do this.’ ‘That’s interesting. What if we do that, and add this to that.’ All of a sudden, you’re building something right before your eyes. If you have the right people in the room, even with the right people, it can be kind of a drain, but if you have the right chemistry, collaboration creatively is one of the most fun experiences I’ve had in professional wrestling.”
During a recent appearance on the “Busted Open After Dark” podcast, Eric Bischoff shared his belief that he did Trick Williams and Ridge Holland a favor last Tuesday on WWE NXT.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On what he did for Trick Williams and Ridge Holland: “NXT is where superstars come to learn how to be the ultimate superstars on either Raw or SmackDown, and that means learning how to deal with pressure, and learning how to perform in pressure situations. I like to think of it this way Bully; I like to think that I did them both a favor tonight, by putting them under the kind of pressure that teaches them how to control themselves.”
On what Holland and Williams learned this week: “Tonight, they learned the hard way ‘You’ve got to learn how to control yourself.’ Ridge needs to learn how to control his anger; he was really the instigator, he was the one that caused most of the damage there. But Trick also has to learn how to deal with that. So I take credit for helping them advance their careers, despite the seriousness of the outcome.”
