On a recent edition of his “83 Weeks” podcast, Eric Bischoff discussed Netflix’s Mr. McMahon docuseries, and the omission of Chyna. He said,
“I would assume that there is [a video discussing Chyna that was cut.] But let’s keep in mind this is the hard part of this because we’re seeing this documentary now post-controversy, post-civil suit, post-Janel Grant, and all the drama and Vince resigning, now we’re finally looking at this thing. But (production) started in 2019 or 2020 whatever it was, and many of the interviews were recorded in 2021 before all of this happened … there’s still a lot of WWE corporate branding going on in this documentary, that’s what it was intended to do prior to this controversy.”
Chyna was with WWE from 1997 to 2001 and in addition to being Women’s Champion, became the first female Intercontinental Champion.
In the 2000s, Chyna was in a real-life relationship with Triple H though The Game had an affair with Stephanie McMahon.
On his podcast, Bischoff added that the ties to the McMahon family and WWE’s current CCO may have been why Chyna wasn’t featured in the doc. He said,
“I think that subject is kind of off-limits. It’s awkward, I think internally, because of the way it all went down, and it’s personal, and it doesn’t have any impact on the business, and I would imagine there were questions asked, the answers or responses were very ‘cut and dry’ and non-interesting or entertaining … I’m guessing if anybody asked any questions about (HHH’s) relationship with Chyna or anything to do with it, (Vince) probably intentionally responded to it in a way that made sure it was going to get left alone because they didn’t want it to be interesting, they didn’t want to dig into it.”
Chyna passed away in April 2016 at the age of 47. The wrestling star was cremated and her ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean.
In 2019, Chyna was posthumously inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as part of DX, making her the first female inductee as part of a group.
