Eric Bischoff SHOOTS On Randy Savage WWE Exit Rumors! 

I think he was until he tried to jump off the cage onto Hogan and destroyed his knees.

NO cuz he didnt drew like Hulk Hogan

I like Randy but if he never signed with WCW, it would not have made a big difference.

Hell no. NWO and Outsiders was the thing in WCW. Randy was not a big part of that, And honestly, all my memories of Randy are with WWF.

Lol no. Neither from the product perspective (nWo and his heel turn were massive), nor from a financial perspective, considering Hogan made a difference of up to +69% in PPV sales alone whenever he was on card or not, while Savage made no visible change in buyrates or ratings. Savage's importance for WCW can be summed down to ine thing: The feud with DDP that gave Dallas the final push into the main event.

I was looking for the big Ford with the hat. They found the hat.

Randy is, has, and will always be the Cream of The Crop.

you’re not wrong. look at all the boxes he ticks; body, mic, heel, face, high-fly, bump and work rate. What else does he need to do?

If I was him I wouldn’t want to do commentary either. I imagine he’s voice was destroyed while keeping that persona up for a few hours straight like that. Anyone who has ever did a Randy Savage impersonation knows that it’s kinda hard on the throat. Fine for a 5 minute promo but I’m not sure anyone would want to do it any longer than that.

Oh Yeah!

Imagine if Savage was still in WWF in '97 when Austin was making ascent up the card, that would've been great.

@@CyberNut930 Macho man was my fav wrestler growing up💪🏼😎 = I’m going 42 now wrestling DONT watch ai t the same = BUT I’m pretty sure that was the way he spoke wasn’t put on 👍🏻

Not one of. The one and only.

Hogan did the same. Working to get a bump in pay

​@@Jrd387 "That amount doesn't work for me brother."

they wantd Savage on commentary fulltime, and to slow down wrestling to transition to commentary and he didnt want to

@@davidaird3712 that was 94, in 96-97 If I recall they wanted him to work as full time talent but he didn’t want it

WCW gave him creative control, better money, and as long as he was under contract so was Lanny. Why would he leave? There's nothing Vince could offer him.

I've been watching clips of his podcast 83 weeks, and I will say that on MOST topics he's sane, rational, logical, and generally makes a lot of really good points. The part where he starts talking out of his ass is when he tries to say ANYTHING about Hulk Hogan. He cannot, and will not put Hulk in any sort of bad light.

The thing about Eric, love or hate him, but over time he has started to show some humility and he has held his hands up to most of his failures. Maybe not as much as people would like but he has done that more than most. His recall though can be quite foggy as he admits himself. Now whether that's on purpose or not, only he really knows. But I have more time for him than a lot of others who do wrestling podcasts.

@@paulmallon9292 they say the same things about Nash or Hall not remembering things. you have to consider their lives in that business spanned THOUSANDS of days of things happening. I remember a multitude of obscure facts from 30 some years ago and I don't even think I could keep all of that straight directly from memory. lol with Bischoff some of it may be on purpose though, cause like said above he doesn't want to make people look bad. but from the dozens of interviews I've heard he knows his place in wrestling history and the things he did right and the things he did wrong. I don't think he's as bad as people make out.

@@mecha2001 yeah I'd agree. I was more giving him credit for being as upfront as he can. And he is more upfront than most, in my opinion. He owns most of his failings which i respect.

​@@Lostmymind1Its also very refreshing to hear Bischoff speaking without being interrupted by Meltzers Soap Boy Conrad, the slumlord promotional salesman. Dudes useless.

Yeah ''RIP'' to a paedophile

Uhh there's a video in the early 2000s where he was hoping Vince would call him 🧐

@@robnix4146 Right. I’ve watched that interview a lot. Just watched it again. He did seem ok with coming back and talked highly of McMahon. But that was in 2000. A lot can change in 3 years. Maybe when he found out Russo was behind those skits - he let it go. Mad at the wrong Vince haha. Or maybe those Stephanie rumors are true!

Around 03 in a video promoting his rap album he flat out said he bitch slap Triple H and his girl, in response to how HHH called Randy a dinosaur during WCW

Add in the fact that the reason Vince McMahon is finally out of wrestling is because of Slim Jim as well. Threatening to pull the sponsorship from WWE and TKO when the Janel Grant lawsuit went public forced TKO and McMahon to part ways...FINALLY! Thank god for Slim Jim. SNAP INTO A SLIM JIM!!!! OOOOOOH YEEEAAA!

Macho Man the Greatest ever the Macho King yeeeeah

How could you miss the even more famous School Crossing Guard behind him? A legendary character from 1993 when Vince McMahon was doing the job gimmicks. I mean the guy literally invented Crossroads. Cody Rhodes owes him his entire career

Thank you!

Thanks. Beats 10 minutes of Eric wasting breathable oxygen

@@ColinPeddicordOooooooooooooohhhhhhh!

That's a false rumor started by a shoot interview Savage did about HHH. Where he stated, he was going to steal stephanie away. The real reason he never came back was he was pretty much done by the end of WCW. He even tried in TnA, and retired after one match

Even if there was any truth to the rumor, Stephanie would've been in college by then. Hardly "little".

wow that's BEAST !!!!!!

He actually did have a match with Shawn, when Shawn adopted the "heart break kid" character, and Sherry was his manager. It was for the WWF Championship, hell of a match.

@@eduardopazhurtado3882on the network? YT?

Great match, shame it didn't draw a dime! ​@@eduardopazhurtado3882

Or they all did shit like that and it’s one of those, “nobody saw nothing, nobody say nothing.”

I dont believe it. Scott Nall said it best, Randy was awkward around women, and it wouldn't make sense. There's a possibility for anything, but that story I don't believe.

@@nick56677 Randy's brother claimed that after he divorced from Elizabeth "Randy banged everything that was female and walked" It's also funny that marks have such a hard time accepting the Randy & Stephanie story, as if t hey can't handle that their hero has sex, lol. I mean absolutely everything points to the story being true. Especially the fact that Vince McMahon went from "I want Randy back in the WWF" to "I want Randy back in the WWF some day" (after negotiations fell through" to "I don't ever want to hear the name of this man again" and even nearly fire some intern after he mentioned the name casually. I mean what else would make Vince go so apeshit and have him hold a grudge for over 20 years? He forgives and forgave pretty much everybody, with the exception of David Schultz (for risking Wrestlemania, thanks to attacking Mr. T), Nailz (who assaulted and sued Vince) and Randy.

Majority of stuff in shoot interviews are true

@@ShadowAngel606Vince is a literal piece of shit egomaniac anything can set him off. He was also pissed about slim Jim big time.

This is correct. The quarter hour rating breakdowns are all available online. Savage was huge money and was wrestling for free in 95.

I agree that Vince should have allowed Savage to continue to wrestle, but he also can’t just focus on those stars; he needed to build stars for the future as well.

Not letting Savage put over Hart and Michaels like Randy wanted was just stupid. Ride fueds could have helped massively during the New Generation era.

​@@ThunderForce2000Savage wanted to feud with Bret and HBK and put them over. He was the last of the old guard to believable legitimize them as the new top stars and pass the torch. Instead they had to struggle to put themselves over and the company nearly crashed and burned without any big names.

The rumours only came about in the 2000s... after randy himself started talking about taking stephanie around the block in his car or something lol.

They were starting to patch things up shortly before Randy's death. He did a promo for his then new action figure and a video game. Many of those supposedly burned bridges had been repaired by HHH (Samartino, Warrior) before, so if there was any truth to the rumor I could not see him trying to repair relations.

Savage didn't want to back after 2000. Vince couldn't afford to pay the draws money in 92 and they all left. Nothing else to it.

That’s true brotherly love because nothing about the Genius is Hall of Fame worthy.

And his father

You find paedophiles funny ? ''Steven Hobbs'' . Wonder whats on your hard drive.... Nonce.

@@user-qx3eb2jx1p how old was stephanie at the time?

Because on his podcast he's got Conrad who won't have anything bad said about anything wrestling he doesn't agree with

Rumor was Macho Man and a then 16 year old Stephanie McMahon had a thing.

😂

I think the ideal dream matches were Hogan vs Austin and The Rock vs Savage.

It was such a missed opportunity to not have the Mega Powers be at the Skydome. Albeit, Savage would have had likely the 2nd biggest pop of the night.@@BigBadJerryRogers

​@@BigBadJerryRogersAustin wouldn't work with Hogan. Savage was a better match-up. Hogan and Rock was the better scenario for Hogan.

Yeah, 4 WCW title wins and a feud of the year award. The WWF may very well have just used him for putting over others and nothing else, like Austin, The Rock, Triple H...

Had he never returned and survived into 2024 the best return would have been that Undertaker spot at Wrestlemania. Woulda been the biggest pop in history.

That he slept with an underage Stephanie McMahon

That Randy popped Steph's cherry when she was underage. It MAY or MAY not have happened, but it looks like Eric thought there was something to the rumor.

Eric was just having a bit of fun with it. Doesn't seem to me that he really believed it.

@@davidgraham8299 Yeah, you may be right. I've never really heard anyone in the business come right out and say they believed it. Dunno.

She was actually of age but still pretty damn young and Randy was no spring chicken...@@DoktorRotwang

You must have forgot Eric was a part of the Vincent Kennedy McMahon Kiss My Ass Club amd a member of kissing Vinces Ass on TV

@@bmuhleman I did forget that.

I could never work out why he thought Randy was too old yet he still had Bob Backlund,Jake Roberts and Jerry lawler doing in ring stuff.They must have been the same age as mach.

Doesn't fit anything anyone has ever said about Vince to hold a grudge like that. Also doesn't track because he still put tons of legends as old or older than Randy in the ring at that time. He'd still have plenty of use for him as a mouth piece as well. The reason could just as easily be Randy himself. Randy at the time of WCW being bought out wasn't even active anymore, his appearances becoming less and less frequent and it's not unreasonable to say he might simply have wanted to settle down and wcw folding was the perfect bookend (until he decided to dust off the boots 4 years later for his brief tna stint.) Or, Vince's decision to move him to commentary still pissed Randy off and he didn't want to work for him. Randy wouldn't be the only guy who stubbornly didn't want to work for the WWE after all (Sting) Also according to JR, Randy was a handful and hard to get along with and frequently started drama backstage. He also claims they knew Randy would need to be in a top position for his egos sake, for those reasons he claims they never reached out, as they had enough on their plate at the time and no position for him they believed would make both sides happy.

The Mattel deal was done behind the back of Vince and when he found out he was fuming. Vince also personally stepped in and told THQ to tell Yuke's that they can't include Randy Savage as a legend in any of their older Smackdown games or of course Legends of Wrestlemania were he the biggest omission. And it makes no sense for Vince to be angry over Slim Jim. Slim Jim was just a very minor sponsor in the WWF, nowhere near on the level they became in WCW where they had their logo everywhere during PPVs like Halloween Havoc.

I don't know. I mean I don't doubt there wasn't head when Randy left and took the sponsorship with him. But Randy returning was such easy money I can't buy decades later THAT is what would have made Vince turn down all the money bringing him back. Not saying the Stephanie rumors are true, but just seems hard to believe it was something as simple as "he lost me money over a decade ago, so I didn't bring him back when he could have made more more money then he ever lost".

​@@LordZaaylJim Ross had a personal issue with Savage because Savage didn't like Ross. It's more likely Jim Ross didn't push for him to return. Ross also admitted to not pushing for hiring Eric in 2001. Nobody says Savage was unprofessional backstage. Only Ross said it and it has been backed up by no one. Pritchard Bischoff Gorilla. No one can back Ross up. Jim just didn't like him because Jim was an office stooge and a kiss ass.

Flair's full of shit about 75% of the time.

Never heard that one before

Stephanie liked the baby oil on the macho weiner. Andre was a time traveler and knew Randy was getting randy with his best friend.

Gorgeous George is a drug addict looking for a pay day

Well u wasn't watching then!

@@craiggrayson9036 Maybe. I used to flip back and forth between Raw and Nitro.

He was until 1998 and he was battling injuries after that and was more limited with appearances and work in the ring