Eric Bischoff Reveals the Exact DAY He Knew WCW Was DOOMED

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  @WSI · 3 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Grateful by Eric Bischoff &amp; Guy Evans available at the following links:<br><a href="http://bischoffbook.com/">BischoffBook.com</a> (signed paperback copies available) <br>Amazon USA: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Grateful-Eric-Bischoff-ebook/dp/B0BLTJ3BJ5/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=">https://www.amazon.com/Grateful-Eric-Bischoff-ebook/dp/B0BLTJ3BJ5/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr= </a><br>Amazon UK: <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grateful-Eric-Bischoff-ebook/dp/B0BLTJ3BJ5/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grateful-Eric-Bischoff-ebook/dp/B0BLTJ3BJ5/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr= </a><br>Amazon Canada: <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Grateful-Eric-Bischoff-ebook/dp/B0BLTJ3BJ5/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=">https://www.amazon.ca/Grateful-Eric-Bischoff-ebook/dp/B0BLTJ3BJ5/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr= </a><br>Amazon Australia: <a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/Grateful-Eric-Bischoff-ebook/dp/B0BLTJ3BJ5/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=">https://www.amazon.com.au/Grateful-Eric-Bischoff-ebook/dp/B0BLTJ3BJ5/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=</a>

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  @hardysa5257 · 3 years ago

  Unlike TNT, USA network stood by Vince when wwf was on a decline for years during 95-97 when they were averaging 2.0 ratings. They didnt &apos;sack&apos; Vince and supported him when he was down. Eric on the other hand was sacked when he was drawing 4.2 rating on his last day in Sept 99. The AOL time warner merger killed wcw, they simply want wrestling out.

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• JO

  @JohnDoe-zr8pc · 3 years ago (edited)

  This is basically what Kevin Nash said as well. That standards and practices came in and gave them a list of what had to be changed, what it had to be changed to, and what was still allowed, but it all HAD to be kid friendly. <br>He then said that they were being forced to make the show more for kids, while WWF had Val Venus getting into a shower with Jenna Jamison, and right then, he knew it was over.

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• MI

  @mikeversusfish1421 · 3 years ago

  Now that I am 34 and think about it... this dude made my childhood absolutely amazing.

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• ZT

  @ztv1990 · 3 years ago

  Eric has a strong point: the main reason why the Monday night wars was so hype between the two companies was because both WCW and WWF/E back then was rated T for Teen and geared towards a rated R programming which made for more exciting content and better storylines and action

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• JA

  @JasonEmerson711 · 3 years ago

  I feel extremely blessed to see the height of the wrestling wars in the late 90&apos;s. &nbsp;They were some WILD times.<br>Things so outrageous by both companies, on TV, that it def made you wonder what was gonna go down next.<br><br>Absolutely love hearing the stories behind the scenes about what really went down during those days, and how one collapsed and the other took over the whole damn world.

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  @noamhutchins6057 · 3 years ago

  He is 67 years old?!?! Looking incredible!!

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• QO

  @QoQabai658 · 3 years ago

  The irony is, in 1999, my family ran into some financial issues and our cable was let go for about &apos;all&apos; of 99 and damn near all of 2000 as well honestly. I got an after-school job taking out the mail for this office building that my friend&apos;s dad was the president of. I was making 150.53 a week and saved 100.53 a week. My mom also found a better job working at an old folks home. One day I come home from work and &apos;boom&apos; the cable was back on! A little surprise to me from mom. I was catching up with everything! MTV. Cinemax. HBO. Everything! And all I could think about was WCW. I watch it..... Vampiro is now a top guy?! So is Norman Smiley? So is Ernest Miller? And Jeff Jarrett was now &apos;the guy&apos; of the company?! I thought I woke up in the damn Twilight Zone! All that time I thought I was missing some great stuff, but in reality, I was missing the slow death of WCW. I was glad to see it go in 01.

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  @e.e.-tv1683 · 3 years ago

  This is the dark side of when an idea catches fire. Everyone wants a piece of what the creator created, and before long, they want to own the thing they didn&apos;t have a hand in making.

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  @paulcleary8088 · 3 years ago

  The fact that Russo was hired AFTER this meeting shows how disjointed things were. The guy was basically the WWF Jerry Springer.

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  @shaun374 · 3 years ago (edited)

  In the Wrestlecrap book “Death of WCW”, (released in 2004) Bryan Alvarez argues this exact same point. He goes through the PPVs and story lines etc etc. &nbsp;But he also takes time to walk through the business happenings behind the scenes. At the end of the book, he argues quite plainly that WCW was killed by a bunch of suits who had no idea and no interest about the wrestling business. And that it’s downfall happened on the day Time Warner and Turner merged. It was always going to be doomed from that day forward.

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• CA

  @cash5627 · 3 years ago

  I&apos;ve always been a wwf guy, but even I tuned in around 97 and 98 to see Goldberg plow over another opponent, or sting descend from the rafters or ddp deliver a diamond cutter. Mid to late 90s wcw was good television

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