Eric Bischoff was recently interviewed by "The One Wrestling Show" in Glasgow. In the interview, he touched on his time in WWE, Ric Flair, TNA doing TV on the road and more. Here is part of the recap, which can be read in its entirety at http://www.pwinsider.com/article/66095/eric-bischoff-discusses-why-tna-needs-to-be-on-the-road-for-tv-why-he-didnt-encourage-his-son-to-get-into-the-business-when-he-tried-to-change-wwe-creative-plans-for-him-russos-tna-departure-and-more.html?p=1:
When Bischoff left WWE, his character was dumped into trash. Did he have creative input? Bischoff said that was one of the few angles that he had input in. It was Bischoff who suggested McMahon throw him into the garbage truck instead of the original script which had John Cena throw Bischoff in. He enjoyed his time in WWE. He said McMahon put his daughter and himself through scenes that were far more degrading than what Bischoff had to do. So there was nothing personal. He brought up Jim Ross kissing McMahon's ass being far more degrading than anything Bischoff had to do.
Has there anything Bischoff said no to in terms of being too far? Right after he started working for WWE, Bischoff got a call from creative on a Friday afternoon letting him know that they wanted Bischoff to kiss McMahon's ass. Bischoff called McMahon that he didn't think it was smart. He felt uncomfortable doing it especially at that stage with him in WWE. Where would his character have gone at that point? Not because it was degrading, but it wasn't right for him at that time.
A caller asked about getting into the production side of wrestling. Bischoff said wrestling is a unique business. If you're a comedy / drama producer, it's relatively easy to find work. But there's not a lot of places that you can gain wrestling experience if you're not with TNA/WWE. He said if there was one area, it would be writer/producer.
You can listen to the entire podcast at http://onewrestling.podbean.com/mf/web/8qr3tb/2012_ep_6.mp3.
The ongoing war of words between WWE Champion CM Punk and music artist Chris Brown is picking up coverage everywhere. MTV.com has a story posted on it at http://rapfix.mtv.com/2012/02/22/wwe-star-cm-punk-invites-chris-brown-to-a-brawl/.
In addition, Punk appeared on ‘Hot 97’ and discussed the issue. Video from that can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4ZO4rRPhITM.
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