Eric Bischoff DEFENDS Vince Russo against 'Who Killed WCW?' claims 

It's not just your feeling. It's fact

That feeling was compounded by every WCW showrunner fighting fire with fire. Dusty, Ole, Watts, Bischoff, Russo - none of these egomaniacs navigated well around the corporate politics. They didn’t play corporate synergy ball; that’s the key difference on why I believe Tony Khan will find a way to keep AEW in the mainstream television game, even if consumer metrics drop substantially.

Would you want that garbage on your channel?

Agree And the Aol merger.

yet they picked up AEW later.

Totally agree, but Vince doesn’t do himself any favours by talking the way he does. But he gets way to much heat imo also.

@@lL-cc8uo not how it works. Hogan has creative control over his own character and the way he’s presented, that even goes to for the owner, so how could Russo break that contract if tna couldn’t and owner couldn’t. A writer gets vetted on what gets thru not everything they write is just automatically put because they a writer.

I've never heard anyone else credited with directing the booking or the segments produced on the show other than Russo, so that's why I get on his case about the garbage that was presented on WCW TV

When he did had control for the first couple of months he stops the declining ratings. The only ones that are denying it or playing mental gymnastics are Cornette fanboys. They're desperate to stay under Cornette's good graces even though that guy is a failure and has other men sleep with wife

@@russellcampbell3500 Here's one of the Cornette fanboys that I'm about. This fanboy is DESPERATE to make Cornette happy.

How? Everybody has a different point, different perspectives. That's life.

For real. EB, Disco, Vince R have all looked like total morons in the wake of this series.

EXPLAIN​@@hitchchristophers6932

Isn't it fun to watch though? What if it's ALL a work? 😂 90's wrestling nostalgia is one of the few remaining fun things around imo.

@@eastsidenell But Russo has facts but you don't want to listen to that because you're too desperate to make Cornette happy.

Good one 🤡

Tony seems like a nice guy, its a shame he clings to a position of power he shouldnt have

@@ChorizoPringoso he's holding back the potential of his own company

@@philwalsh8975 exactly, AEW has the infrastructure, production, roster and money to be so much bigger than it is, yet Tony doesnt know how to make the best of it...

@@ChorizoPringoso AEW has dropped for way too long under Khan's control. He's already at the stage that McMahon was in 2017-2019: he HAS to go

Honestly, I think he was annoyed in how long it took Disco to finish!

Disco has no ability to ask a concise question. At all.

@@burntvirtue He even gets on Konnan's nerves.

What do you think "we" means?

Well it’s a pretty huge thing in pro wrestling history one of the two big national promotions going belly up.

@@CaptainColdyron222why on earth would a catastrophic hit on the ecosystem be a piece of history that has a never ending discourse?

@@CaptainColdyron222 it's also a topic of a TV show, which all the people talking were actually in.

The evidence was there from the start, the dirt sheets want to believe it was Russo, Bischoff or Hogan's fault

🙏🏽

Unless he gets a better financial offer to do something else, allowing Connie to swallow that AEW pill on a weekly basis is a pretty sweet gig that I don't see Eric being stupid enough to walk away from. After all, it's just wrestling.

I hope, or Conrad needs to let someone else host with Eric

People need to step back and realize, with Vince canceled; Eric effectively the GOAT out of the ring in wrestling

Absolutely agree.

Russo has created some of the worst storylines in history. He literally wanted to make an incest storyline in WWF and it almost happened. He's absolutely horrible.

@@astuteandyNo he didn’t that was a Vince McMahon idea….

I honestly think AEW has always been overhyped. TNA had better ratings, and lasted about 15 years!

That is pretty much the crux of it.

You should be working for the CIA with that mind-reading ability of yours

​@@MABMGuitarMind reading? Those are basic observations of human behavior. They're all obvious. That said, I do believe Bischoff's emotion at Nash's words was genuine.

It’s the dimples. 😂😂

@@mykoniichistorychannel I'm down... I mean, WHAT?

1:00 😶😅

"I'm freaking out, man!"

Feeny's barely holding it together lol

What about Russo top 5 ideas?

It's not the speed that's the issue. It's the extra words and thoughts he tries to cram into one question. He can't just ask one quick thing, then STFU and let someone answer. That said, Bischoff's answers are just as bad as Disco's questions. Meandering, full of qualifiers, and additional unnecessary info before getting to what was asked.

Patron it'll be up in a week on here probably

He wasn't cut off, he changed topics.

I feel like he gets offended by everything 😂

Russo Needs To Admit All His Mistakes. Then He Won’t Get Criticized Anymore Or Whoever Criticizes Him Will Be Wrong /Stupid/Bitter. Eric Bischoff Admitted Lesser Mistakes. Vince Russo Had Said Vince McMahon Sent Him To WCW To Kill It. He Didn’t Kill It But He Made Most Of Their Mistakes In 1999-2001. Injuries To Top Stars Was Out Of WCW Control & Eric Bischoff Wasn’t Given Enough Time To Gain WCW Momentum Back After Increasing Their Rating Up To A 4.1. Then There Were 1998 Standards And Practices. Eric Bischoff Didn’t Make That Much Mistakes In 1999 Not Big Mistakes That Dropped Ratings. Injuries To Top Stars & NWO Disbanding & Then The Hiring Of VinceRusso. Had The NWO Been Continued And Those Top Stars Weren’t Injured, WCW Would’ve Surpassed WWE In Ratings. And Then Sting & Randy Savage Return To Feud With Hart/Hogan & Goldberg Go Through The NWO One By One Until He Finally Get To Hogan And Then Sid Vicious Return.

​@@allencollins5666 If you put most of WCW's mistakes on Russo. Then you clearly were not following that product.

@@allencollins5666 WAY too much effort going on here buddy

@@BrendanFinnagin I would too if all the guys I replaced refused to speak to me but spoke negatively about me for clicks every week

Bret Hart tribute (?

@@liamstewart4472 hahaha. Observation noted.

Konnan? manly...Disco not so much 😂

😂​@@ChorizoPringoso

The gimmick didnt fit Mike, but we cant say he didnt make it work

What about Mike Awesome - The Fat Chick Thriller

The gimmick change resulted in him getting more over with the crowd but a lot of people ignore this. He was getting zero reaction in the months leading up to the gimmick change, because sometimes being over in a smaller venue doesn't translate well to the bigger stage. The same thing happens now with NXT.

Judy on a pole match

He would've been better with an 80s guy gimmick with that mullet and just his whole shtick. His Scorpions theme music in ECW was great, as well.

Brad Siegel isn't some guy. He was the president of the TNT network. He didn't want WCW on the air on the network he was in charge of. Of course the shows sucked, but it didn't matter what was on the show when Siegel was determined to get rid of it no matter what.

AEW shows are much worse than WCW 2001 and they are still airing.

It didn't cut off in the middle of Konnan's sentence, if you watched the full thing you'd know that Konnan actually changed topics. Hence the point of the edit. Understand?

Entertainment today is riddled with companies who risk severe financial hit in exchange for some idealism within the company. WBD today in particular, STILL puts out stinkers when they have obvious resources for profit staring at them in the face.