Eric Bischoff SHOOTS On Why He Had To Sign Hulk Hogan's Friends!

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Eric Bischoff talks exclusively to Inside The Ropes about why he had to sign Hulk Hogan's friends in WCW, including Jim Duggan, The Nasty Boys, Jimmy Hart and more! Subscribe to the channel for more clips of our live shows and interviews, and don't forget to like and comment too!
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@InsideTheRopes 6 месяцев назад

Was hiring The Nasty Boys truly best for business? Let us know in the comments below!

@RestingBeachFace721 6 месяцев назад

I think Hulk Hogan had good intentions but kooky ideas.

@jcorley45 6 месяцев назад

@@RestingBeachFace721 He had good intentions for himself

@Krillep 6 месяцев назад

Nasty Boys were in WCW already. Hogan created two wrestling booms and WCW was the better show 94-98.

@Axs_Nice_Hair 6 месяцев назад

@@Krillep That's right. The nasty boys had been in WCW almost a year before Hulk showed up.

@bridgetbonds5169 6 месяцев назад

Hi Eric bischoff my name is Bridget and I’m from Michigan I and I’m your biggest fan and I really want to meet you one day soon and please comment back to me thank you 😊

@nick56677 6 месяцев назад

When Hogan goes to bed he sleeps on top of the covers. Those blankets ain't going over on the Hulkster, JACK!

@corybuckle944 6 месяцев назад

😂😂😂😂

@frankmfeb13 6 месяцев назад

When the blankets asked if they could cover hulk he replied with " that's just not gonna work for me, brother "

@MG-vo7pz 6 месяцев назад

Hogan just lets Bubba the Love Sponge's ex-wife get over

@sethbailey2557 5 месяцев назад

Brother brother brother

@sethbailey2557 5 месяцев назад

Brother brother brother

@AT-cd2pp 6 месяцев назад

Bischoff: "Hulk, we can't hire all of your buddies." Hulk: "That's not gonna work for me, brother.

@megatron7057 6 месяцев назад

Sounds like Aaron rodgers lul

@brandocalrissian3294 6 месяцев назад

@@megatron7057haha good one.

@namemcnamerton4249 5 месяцев назад

HTM: This sucks I'm going back to sing on shotgun Saturday. E: I'm gonna tell everyone I made you cry and had you up against a truck.

@joseconcepcion6949 3 месяца назад

Only one the was cool that he did bring in was macho man and that's it anyone was dead weight and lost there touch that's honky talk man,beefcake,Jim Dugan,akeem, boss man,many more that I'm sure where 80s WWF at the time that ran with hulk Hogan that ain't worth what was mid 90s WCW run not pushing the younger guys was lost wcw war pushing the wrong people

@garydevlin8178 17 дней назад

Bischoff: ok ok ok Hulky, you win, your butt boys all get garrenteed contracts already! 🤦🏻‍♂️ Hulk: good…oh by the way don’t forget the fine print brother, you bring in as my personal nurse maid…Jimmy Hart Baby! Bischoff: oh son of a!!!

@Dragonblack90 6 месяцев назад

Who would win in a fight? Batman with prep time or Hogan with Creative Control

@LiamAddison08 6 месяцев назад

Hogan no contest

@idcwhatuthink4985 6 месяцев назад

If Hogan does get pinned, Bstman has the whole teen titans attack him, and the riddler counting 1 2 3 in a swerve brother

@criticalbill2090 6 месяцев назад

"I`m Vengeance....." "That`s not gonna work for me, brother"

@grant1739 6 месяцев назад

Hulkamania gonna run wild all over Batman.. but to be fair Hogan would make Batman look small and he has no superpowers so Hogan in my book!

@mauricesanchez6804 6 месяцев назад

Hulk Hogan with an artist brush in his hand brother.

@jamesb1988 6 месяцев назад

Bischoff is a part of what I like to call The Pinocchio Trio, along with Paul Heyman & Bruce Prichard. 3 guys who regularly bend the truth but are so charismatic that you don't care.

@IHateNicolasCage 6 месяцев назад

Meanwhile Hogan just lies

@MrFoxxx47 6 месяцев назад

I wouldn't put Bischoff in the category with those guys lol.

@danger170388 6 месяцев назад

I agree, he's separate from that group

@jamesmiller5331 6 месяцев назад

There are wrestling marks that are paying for Eric Bischoff's horse stables LOL

@imreadytoberuledbyap 6 месяцев назад

Wait so you worked at wcw or turner when all of this was going down? I love how people who have had zero to do with anything to do with the industry blurt comments out like they where.

@willowfalls7528 6 месяцев назад

Randy Savage is still, kind of, the spokesman for Slim Jim. There's at least one Slim Jim product out there that still to this day bears his face.

@Marc_Araujo 6 месяцев назад

Yeah, he's still in the most recent commercial (that also has LA Knight and Bianca Belair in it) busting out the catch phrase.

@gothabilly5 6 месяцев назад

There's 2 now in my local stores

@zlinedavid 6 месяцев назад

Snap into a Slim Jim OOOOOOOOOHHHHHH YEEEAAAAHHHHHHHH

@Felamine 6 месяцев назад

The commercials still use his "Snap into a Slim Jim!" soundbite. I wonder if his family still gets royalties for that.

@jeffj6815 6 месяцев назад

There's still a life-size standee of Randy Savage at a local store plugging Slim Jims 😊

@IRenegadEEEEE 6 месяцев назад

I'm never quite sure just how reliable Eric is from a booking and creative perspective when he talks but I always like him telling a story.

@randolphdefreese7874 6 месяцев назад

So true.some people say he is full of shit but the way he tells the story it sounds credible.

@ShadowAngel18606 5 месяцев назад

@@randolphdefreese7874 He iis still full of shit, like this story. Nasty Boys joined WCW in July 1993, when Hogan was still under contract with the WWF (He was just about to start the Summer Tour of Europe) and wouldn't even negotiatie with WCW for another 7 months. So them coming in had absolutely nothing to do with Hogan whatsoever.

@ajbahus 5 месяцев назад

He just very pleasant the way he talks. It’s the opposite energy that someone like Cornette brings lol

@ants5449 5 месяцев назад

@@ajbahusCornette only survives because of his foul language and erratic moods take those away and they'd be very dull boring podcasts

@magiusfantasia5506 4 месяца назад

I will admit, a lot of his opinions, I don't nessecarily agree with. But when he talks business, I agree with him 90 percent of the time. I don't LIKE some of the things he says or does, but I can't deny that I *do* agree with a lot of his business deacons even if I don't like that. That doesn't mean I agree with ALL of his business decisions, but I feel like a lot of them were pretty sound in reason.

@Steve-xp8we 6 месяцев назад

I love the interviews this channel produces but I hate how it’s not full interviews. I wanna see the whole thing. Not just clips.

@boxingfan6766 4 месяца назад

Me too. I really wanna see the full Edge and Paul Heyman interviews in full.

@geneawisea2708 4 месяца назад

Hogan and Macho got me into watching WCW and I stayed for awhile

@freshparkfilms 6 месяцев назад

all i hear is that sound clip of Owen Hart on wrestling bios " he's an animal, an animal!" 1:26 😅

@AttackoftheJoe 6 месяцев назад

Jam up guy

@LiamAddison08 6 месяцев назад

Steve mufuggin Blackman

@dudethunder730 6 месяцев назад

@@LiamAddison08been mfugged with the mfug elbow

@jlescault1983 4 месяца назад

Good stuff from Bischoff. It changed the game. When Hogan went to WCW is when i started loyally watching. Miss those days. Wcw had a ton of programming on TBS.

@Darule514 6 месяцев назад

The Nasty Boys came to wcw in 1993 almost year before Hogan signed with the company.

@UziBlancoOfficial 5 месяцев назад

I was thinking that was the case, I'm 35 now so I was younger back then an didn't pay as much of attention that u do now but yea I believe you are correct about that..

@1punchmann 5 месяцев назад

That was a pre serenade of hogan

@johnbeardshall2898 4 месяца назад

True but it was because of friendship that they got resigned at alot of money plus he got them into TNA

@stephendwane8166 6 месяцев назад

This was the show in cork a few months ago , he had barely made it due to flight issues, I was there, great guy🤛😂😂

@keyboard_g 6 месяцев назад

Hacksaw was and still is beloved. Good dude.

@namikstudios 6 месяцев назад

Yep. I'm Australian, so obviously the whole USA gimmick has no meaning for me, but it certainly got a great reaction from the crowds he was performing in front of.

@clayton5584 4 месяца назад

As an American we feel the same way about Arnold Schwarzenegger

@nickcancelliere5638 4 месяца назад

@@namikstudiosjag awwve comment mate.... Btw it's an American company...soooo

@namikstudios 4 месяца назад

@@nickcancelliere5638 it (WCW) was an American company, yes. I was lucky enough to see it and Hacksaw live when WCW toured Australia in October 2000. Hacksaw had turned heel at that stage tho and had joined Team Canada, trading the Stars and Stripes for the Maple Leaf. Still had his trusty 2x4 tho!

@justinlast2lastharder749 6 месяцев назад

"You probably arent old enough to remember the Randy Savage Slim Jim Commercials" Oh Yeeeaaah right in the "Now I Feel Old". Those were my Childhood.

@namemcnamerton4249 5 месяцев назад

They made a new one every year up until his death.

@AzureSymbiote 4 месяца назад

They used Savage for SJ ads at the recent Royal Rumble.

@IHateNicolasCage 6 месяцев назад

This interview works for me, Brother.

@slashernation6724 6 месяцев назад

where can i watch these full interviews? is there a streaming service i can buy?

@crazyhayn 6 месяцев назад

Bischoff embellishes but he's relatively consistent about WCW being a division of Turner affecting the way it was run compared to WWE

@christianhoneyman9001 6 месяцев назад

Awsome video. That was very informative and entertaining. I could watch Eric for hours. 😊

@jacksmith-mu3ee 5 месяцев назад

I couldn't

@jerrybarry3148 6 месяцев назад

Nasty boys were in wcw a year before Hogan got there

@ducklife420 6 месяцев назад

yeh dusty got them their deals

@RandomizedRambler 6 месяцев назад

Hacksaw was a real showman

@mexmexican8619 2 месяца назад

He paved the way for mentally challenged characters like Eugene

@Darren-su2gm 5 месяцев назад

Bruce Prichard is halarious with his impersonations.Especially with Jim Cornett impersonations😂

@zacharyscott6779 6 месяцев назад

I know its tv, but that episode of Hogan Knows Best where they have Brian Knobbs stay over... thats exactly how i always imagined that guy to be. Someone who "lived their gimmick" when they most definitely SHOULDN'T have, and had fame simply because they rode Hulk's coattail. As for Hacksaw, met him a handful of times as I was friends with a family member of his, and that guy always cool. Dude deserved good things.

@dbreiden83080 6 месяцев назад

He came off to me as 1 of those dudes you think to yourself "Why would anyone want to be his friend"

@Willrocs 6 месяцев назад

Cause he would do all the things hogan wanted to do but couldn’t cause the image brother can’t disappoint the little hulkamanics. Plus it fed into hulks ego have someone nasty boys lol

@joshuasteward6097 4 месяца назад

To be fair, I think the Nasty Boys were popular in WWF.

@JoesUncleBosey 6 месяцев назад

Hogan is the greatest wrestler, mat technician, and entertainer the business has and ever will see.. he also worked 366 days in one year brother

@thekingofkingsrp 6 месяцев назад

I think it was 400.

@watchingvidz5060 6 месяцев назад

@@thekingofkingsrpit was

@pjay213 6 месяцев назад

leap year?

@BeardedBruh 6 месяцев назад

No, no, no. On leap years it wasn't out of the question to get 520 days out of him, give or take an hour or two. Hard to really pinpoint the exact amount. But hey, when you're pulling a Superman time warp, traveling around the globe and gaining hours constantly, who can keep track? Give the guy a break, I don't believe a single one of you could wrestle 4 OR 500 days in a year, so get off his monstrous back, would ya?

@stevechavez83 6 месяцев назад

I think just recently he said he worked 420 days in one year 😂

@oliverl.5834 6 месяцев назад

Didn't the Nasty Boys come (back) to WCW about a year before Hogan? What's their signing got to do with Hogan?

@Rocker-kr9nu 5 месяцев назад

Yes they did! Nothing! Hogan jumped to WCW after his Series "Thunder in Paradise" flopped.

@user-nd5ud7bh3j 6 месяцев назад

Nasty boys were a great team. So it was worth it

@MackRangerPower 5 месяцев назад

I like how Eric remembers all the good shit he’s been involved in but just can’t piece together the bullshit

@CardPlayingStrategies 6 месяцев назад

Bischoff: he had an attorney named Henry Holmes, who's a f***ing animal. Bret: HE'S AN ANIMAL! Owen: AN ANIMAL! AN ANIMAL!

@jacksmith-mu3ee 5 месяцев назад

Steve Bucemi : I AM AN ANIMAL . I M N ANIMAL...... I CAN'T GET MY FOOT OUT

@aidanlynn 6 месяцев назад

I’m suprised he could “recall” any of these stories.

@swishbenoit4489 6 месяцев назад

Shut up and do a double reverse mortgage with Conrad

@michaelfrazier1632 4 месяца назад

It’s crazy because I loved wrestling WWF and WCW Saturday night was my show and Saturday morning I was happy when a lot of wrestlers came there because I got more shows with other wrestlers like

@joeriveracomedy 6 месяцев назад

When I would watch clash of the titans on tbs I would see sat night ads. It was my only frame of reference for wcw. Had no clue hogan showed up until starrcade 97, my 1st live ppv.

@bernarddoherty2303 6 месяцев назад

Make it very easy for me to find the full interview please

@danc3488 5 месяцев назад

So it wasnt necessarily that he HAD to sign Hogan's friends. It's that, as a good businessman and talent manager, he WANTED to sign those wrestlers. Very smart decision looking after for his big prize

@DavidSelfPaid 6 месяцев назад

Hulk Hogan had a T.V show when WCW went off called Thunder in Paradise so yeah them negotiations was tough!!!

@whatutalkinboutwillis6122 2 месяца назад

Randy savage is still on the slim Jim wrappers to this day.

@marineguy4eva 6 месяцев назад

Doesn't Steve Austin mention this in his famous ECW Promo about teaming up with Hogan or so?

@ScubaSteveO1987 6 месяцев назад

Man, oh man, did Austin ever dodge a bullet by not becoming Hulk Hogans little brother lmao

@troysmith8334 6 месяцев назад

the one he said had no marketing potential...lmao

@joshuasteward6097 4 месяца назад

@@troysmith8334 How much potential did Stunning Steve Austin have? I think US champ was his peak. You can't predict what someone will do as a new character with a different company.

@joshuasteward6097 4 месяца назад

I dunno. Maybe that gets him bigger payoffs and more screen time. Then Hogan trusts him and maybe he's in WCW's main event scene and never leaves WCW.

@ScubaSteveO1987 4 месяца назад

@@joshuasteward6097 true. Isaac Yankem became a star when he became Undertaker's brother lol

@troysmith8334 4 месяца назад

@@joshuasteward6097 I think when he became US champ i really don't think Bishoff saw him as a world champion after that. Once Hogan came into the wcw camp, Austin's relevance went south

@grant1739 6 месяцев назад

I loved Hulk Hogan when i was a kid so no matter what bad things i hear he still got me into watching wrasslin

@ReanimatorsMutilations 6 месяцев назад

I loved him n had never even seen him wrestle 😂

@westyraviz 6 месяцев назад

It’s rather annoying when fans talk smack about Hogan. Many of these fans don’t appreciate how important Hogan’s presence and charisma was to the growth of professional wresting. Hogan boosted the incomes of every single professional wrestler. Even the legendary Ric Flair admits to Hogan’s financial influence on the business. Every professional wrestler over the last 40 years owes a big debt of gratitude to Hulk Hogan and Vince McMahon. When Hogan passes (and may he live another 30 years!) fans will start shedding crocodile tears and talking about he great he was. Tell him now that he’s still here!

@Scorch1028 6 месяцев назад

Hulk Hogan looking out for his friends is admirable, considering how many other wrestlers he "screwed over" in order to keep his spot in the WWF.

@washingtonfootballskins 6 месяцев назад

😆 🤣 😂 and Hulk held his friends down.

@johnwireman2660 5 месяцев назад

He wanted them to have jobs, he just didn’t want them to get ahead.

@Me-qp8vz 5 месяцев назад

He used those friends to make himself look better.

@rayyzo1 4 месяца назад

Cringe comment

@MrAac1984 4 месяца назад

His friends weren’t threats to him. They were all mid-carders / Glorified Jobbers / Jabronis!

@georgeresso6835 6 месяцев назад

a big problem in the demise of WCW..besides overpaying wrestlers...was the PPV's more often than not were hyping NITRO instead of the opposite...i cant tell you how many times at the end of a PPV the announcers would say " i wonder whats gonna happen on nitro?"

@boriqua87 6 месяцев назад

I feel that was only done as to counter program RAW. And it worked for a while as we know. Their biggest downfall was their biggest money maker in the beginning, though. The NWO was amazing and then it was like WTH is going on?

@namikstudios 6 месяцев назад

That's because WCW was part of a television company, Turner. Getting ratings on TNT and TBS was good for their entire business, not just WCW.

@HiPHOPx87 2 месяца назад

When they trashed Team 3D locker room was funny as hell 😂. They was pissed 🤣

@MP-in4or 6 месяцев назад

I love Hacksaw. Not only as a person, but he was a good big guy wrestler. He had that, 'that,' every average person could relate to. I loved his facial expressions. They were so funny. He was so over with the fans. I was upset that they did not do more with him as far as at least being the US champ a little more. People loved him and they did not do enough. If WWE was smart, they would bring back WCW. Let it be its own company, but have some cross overs. Bring in the old school guys to be agents, trainers, and help run the show. The younger guys like DDP and Nash can still wrestle.

@silles8 6 месяцев назад

Nash can still wrestle? The man with glass knees and paper quads? 😂

@MP-in4or 6 месяцев назад

@@silles8 if fair can do it, even w a shirt on, so can Nash. A few knee replacements..... anyone can be back to normal, lol!

@ReanimatorsMutilations 6 месяцев назад

@@MP-in4orNash doesn't want to. He's not an idiot

@thekingofkingsrp 6 месяцев назад

I wanted them to do that from when they bought it.

@OikPoinFive 6 месяцев назад

@@silles8don't throw rocks at glass legs!!!

@TheHannibalTV 5 месяцев назад

Facinating

@conniecarroll747 5 месяцев назад

On Macho Man. The best thing for him was going to WCW. Vince had him on the commentators table. From what I've read, he, for whatever reason, decided Randy didn't have 'it' in the ring anymore. Once Randy went over to WCW, he proved Vince wrong. To this day, one has to wonder what the Hell Vince was thinking? Randy was in great shape, and he became even more muscular later on, but he proved that he wasn't a washed-up wrestler. Vince's way of looking at guys proved to be wrong several times.

@peterbaini8752 5 месяцев назад

I wonder what would have happened if Macho stayed in the WWF and wrestled through 94-99. Matches against Shawn, Taker, Bret, Austin and the Rock would have been great. Imagine Macho v Mankind! Imagine those promos 😅😅

@brianticas7671 4 месяца назад

Macho man still had it but Vince mind was to push new talent. Thats why WCW had it's Demise. All of WCW midcard left because of that

@mightilyoats2729 6 месяцев назад

I don't necessarily believe everything Eric says, but he is a great storyteller, and totally worth LISTENING TO, if not necessarily believing. Which is, funnily enough, basically how wrestling works.

@1980Triumph 6 месяцев назад

you literally have decided not to believe without evidence or anything, just straight bias and that is insane

@JayCord00 6 месяцев назад

Both of you, only said the truth about everything in your life, you never lied !? People like you 2 are pathetic. Look at yourself before talking about somebody else "lies" 🤣🤦

@DankHillCometh 6 месяцев назад

must suck to have that mentality

@mightilyoats2729 6 месяцев назад

...what?@@1980Triumph

@namikstudios 6 месяцев назад

Yep he's a great talker, both in promos and in reality. Probably the best example of that is how he cut that promo on the fly at TNA at Victory Road 2011 when Jeff Hardy went out to have the match with Sting while he was high as a kite. Kind of gets overlooked because of what Jeff did but the way Eric handled that was an improv masterclass. Not many people could pull that kind of promo off under those circumstances as well as Eric did.

@Ronsonator 5 месяцев назад

God Bless the billionaires that love wrestling and don't care about losing money over it.

@CuteLesbo69 6 месяцев назад

Not gonna lie, when Hogan came in I gave up on them. I knew it would become the Hulk show.

@matthewross3998 6 месяцев назад

Hulk wouldn’t fight him unless he was the one going over

@johnnyskinwalker4095 6 месяцев назад

and it indeed became terrible. lol

@andrewft31 6 месяцев назад

@@matthewross3998you know that isn’t true lol Hulk put Arn Anderson over twice… same with Paul Wight, Luger, Sting (Hogan used his creative control to have Sting win which Sting was against), Piper (their deal was Piper got the wins but Hogan kept the belt), Luger, Kidman… if he had been insane with using his creative control their is no way he would have agreed to have Kidman go over because it defies logic just because of the size difference.

@CuteLesbo69 6 месяцев назад

@@andrewft31 Hogan only put people over when it put him in strong light. Every time he put someone over on tv it was because something else would boost the ratings, so he put himself in a position to put someone over but it gave the appearance the ratings bump was because of him. It was always the Hulk Show.

@lodi70005 6 месяцев назад

@@andrewft31 Hogan put Arn over? I remember how strong Arn looked in that win,lol. How many people interfered in that match?

@txmetalhead82xk 6 месяцев назад

That is an awesome story.

@Matty272 Месяц назад

Pretty sure the Nasty Boys returned to WCW in 1993. Hogan made his WCW debut in 1994z

@viccrown8188 6 месяцев назад

I’m such a wrestling fan, I dig into EVERYTHING wrestling and STILL just found out about 2-3 years ago that Brutus was the disciple. Blew my mind

@Moxleygirl 6 месяцев назад

When I found out I was shocked, people talk about how all he did was have a beard and have blonde hair but he was completely unrecognizable

@steveosborn7224 3 месяца назад

I lived slim Jim and those commercials

@banksta3 2 месяца назад

The Nasty Boys are the physical manifestation of Beebop and Rocksteady lol.

@kpz1234 4 месяца назад

I haven't heard a lot about them, but I wouldn't want to run into Sags and Knobs if they had a few pops too many at the bar.

@seanpatrick5060 5 месяцев назад

Thunder Lipps Runs Wild Brother!!!

@NuYoRicanFlava Месяц назад

Hacksaw is today and forever a treasure.

@TOFTS77 6 месяцев назад

Steve Austin did not pitch to be Hogans little brother. Austin had the idea for it to be revealed that he was Hogans nephew. They weren't going to tag team. Eric kept the idea in his mind enough to use it with Horace after Austin left WCW.

@godfather71190 6 месяцев назад

Horace was Hogan's real life nephew.

@TOFTS77 6 месяцев назад

@@godfather71190 I know he was. But the way they handled the Horace angle was beat for beat Steve's pitch. Not knocking Horace but had he had the charisma of Austin the angle might of actually done well.

@norrisc7163 4 месяца назад

@@godfather71190I know Horace was Hulk Late brother son

@TheRealVerbalAbuser 3 месяца назад

Hulk Hogan joining WCW shook up the world.

@904PinballZine 6 месяцев назад

History

@joshr8666 5 месяцев назад

Wow i didnt know Hank Aaron was working at Turner

@michaelmercury1297 6 месяцев назад

I'm a big fan of Steve Austin but I don't think him pretending to be Hogan's little brother was a good idea.

@joshuasteward6097 4 месяца назад

They could have had it turn out to not be true as part of finishing the story.

@cjrrun 6 месяцев назад

Bruce, Russo and Eric say whatever they want to make them look good

@60BloodyChamp60 6 месяцев назад

He had to hire Hogan’s friends so he could be one of Hogan’s friends. His biggest fear was not being Hogan’s friend, so he did whatever Hogan wanted.

@pinnacleproductions6275 6 месяцев назад

One Thing I disagree on Eric with is his stance on Bill Watts. Watts was the first promoter to have black champions and pushed Junkyard Dog, in that interview Watts simply said a business owner should have the right to hire or not hire anyone no matter what race they are. How is that racist? He gave more black wrestlers opportunities than anyone and was close friends with many of them.

@kevinkbradshaw2239 6 месяцев назад

Ya, Eric I guess forgot the racial stuff Hogan was caught on tape saying. He sure can remember what "bad" stuff Watts supposedly said

@freedomisslavery6840 4 месяца назад

Yes, he was simply making the correct point that the end result of the Civil Right act legislation is that it essentially outlawed freedom of association.

@stephenmillar7455 4 месяца назад

Er... there's a little more to it than that...

@pinnacleproductions6275 4 месяца назад

@@stephenmillar7455 are you going to elaborate?

@ScottSmith-xy3jk 24 дня назад

Tell us you don't know anything about Bill Watts without telling us you don't know anything about Bill Watts.

@FlagTheRef 3 месяца назад

Eric Bischoff, the Scott Coker of professional wrestling.

@kyleannett7623 6 месяцев назад

😂😂 Eric’s math tho…”our PPV share was 60/40 (wcw got 40%). After signing Hulk I was able to flip that. We’d do $2m per ppv, we’ll thats $200k per ppv where we got a raise”……. That would be $400k per show as a raise.

@MajorLeagueCOD 6 месяцев назад

He’s talking about the difference between getting 40% and 60%. Eric is saying when they got 60% because of Hogan that it was an extra 200k on every million difference just from having Hogan.

@kyleannett7623 6 месяцев назад

@@MajorLeagueCOD My guy, 8:42 give it another listen. He clearly says they were making $2m per ppv, and follows up with that’s a $200k raise….. that’s 10% not 20%, her never once says per million, he based his incorrect math on $2m revenue….. I didn’t go to the Scott Steiner school for math😂, I know what I commented, and I’m right.

@joshuasteward6097 6 месяцев назад

@@kyleannett7623When they got 40 percent per million, that is $400,000. When they got 60 percent, that's $600,000. A $200,000 raise. I guess you are saying what he meant isn't exactly how he phrases it.

@kyleannett7623 6 месяцев назад

@@joshuasteward6097 you guys when does he say per million? Ever? The percentage as profit is whether it’s $10 or $1 trillion…. The only number he ever plainly says is $2m per ppv, and immediately says that’s a raise of $200k per show…. It’s not, it’s $400k. Eric made a head math mistake lol. It’s like Kevin Nash saying “Adjective” lol. Kevin is highly intelligent, but in that moment he was wrong lol. Eric is also highly intelligent, he just brain farted the math a bit.

@Goochbag8 4 месяца назад

I could really go for a slim jim right now

@danielterry6511 3 месяца назад

What exactly did Bill Watts say. Considering his biggest babyface in MidSouth was Sylvester Ritter aka The Junkyard Dog

@soulofanerd9364 6 месяцев назад

Man I would LOVE TO KNOW who booked that crap with Austin and Duggan.... I was on the verge of quitting watching WCW after that. Then Austin got fired not too long after that 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️. I wanna say at some point it's been said that loss was due to needing to give Austin time off for injuries and that lead to the incident with him and management on the phone where Austin himself has admitted he handled things poorly. Either way that title change pisses me off to this day

@joshuasteward6097 6 месяцев назад

Austin was injured. So what if they picked Hacksaw to win the US belt from him? He dropped it to Vader at Starrcade 3 months later.

@soulofanerd9364 6 месяцев назад

@@joshuasteward6097 now THAT PART was a relief, Duggan losing to Vader but he never should have had the belt in the first place. As I said yes Austin was injured and needed to drop the title but I'm not in favor of anyone dropping titles to unworthy opponents so in this case Austin was above that kind of loss in my view, Jim Duggan was no where near a title holder level at that point and really ever in my opinion

@joshuasteward6097 6 месяцев назад

@@soulofanerd9364 Maybe. But who should have won it? The crowd liked Hacksaw. He did the usa chant, perfect for the belt, and it gave a veteran recognition.

@soulofanerd9364 6 месяцев назад

@@joshuasteward6097 ehhhh I don't like the idea of kinda squashing an up and coming star who's been built for 3-4 yrs in a match with a way past his prime guy especially with a title involved that doesn't do anything for the prestige of the title. Off the top of my head I'm still sure there were better candidates than Duggan. Hell was Macho there yet? That's a guy who brings something to any title he had

@namikstudios 6 месяцев назад

Dusty Rhodes was the head booker for WCW when this happened so it was probably him.

@uria702 6 месяцев назад

“That’s not gonna work for me brother”

@sccc6758 5 месяцев назад

Bishoff seems likeable. Wcw I liked better than set in the 90s. Vice versa in the 80s when it was nwa

@williammoore1980 5 месяцев назад

Terry looked out for Terry. Period. He wouldn’t have had the attorney he had otherwise. He clearly played the nice guy and had his attorney be how he really wanted to be.

@nes199 3 месяца назад

WCW died in 94 it just didn't get buried until 01

@MattJungleCat 4 месяца назад

The Nasty Boys were already in WCW when Hulk Hogan came on board...

@thatboybear 6 месяцев назад

Eric is a Hogan fanboy, plain and simple. His might be the biggest man crush I’ve ever seen. Bischoff was desperate to be cool, desperate to be one of “the boys,” desperate to have a piece of the spotlight. The man joined a faction that was trying to take down the “establishment” - and HE was the establishment. How tf are you fighting against yourself? I’ve always said that X Pac was the tag along 3rd wheel who always wormed his way into the group of cool kids. Bischoff is that tag along 5th wheel that bought his way in. It’s really pretty pathetic.

@paulwerline6249 6 месяцев назад

I've always said the same thing. If you've ever heard him talk about The Booty Man(Brutus the Barber Beefcake) he sounds like Hogan's current lover jealously complaining about his ex.

@thekingofkingsrp 6 месяцев назад

Pretty clever bought his way in using someone else money lol.

@geraldconnolly2140 6 месяцев назад

Heyman is that you?

@ignatiusjackson235 6 месяцев назад

True about Eric, but X-Pac could work with the best of them. There's a reason WWF would use him to get a good match out of newbies during the Attitude Era. I just don't think his character, size, and skillset fit the mold of a "superstar." He was the best "role player" you could ask for until the drugs took over towards the end of his run.

@gbody2617 6 месяцев назад

Hahaha, at 4:02! 😂 Eric pulling a Rock!

@ModernDayRenaissanceMan 5 месяцев назад

Hacksaw got his start out of Alabama in the southern wrestling territories doing his football tackle finish. The WCW crowd knew him from the early 80s. Plus his USA gimmick was always going to be over. Once he hit Andre with the 2x4 & knocked him out he should have gotten a bigger push. WWF wasted him. He was the #2 babyface in that organization for a few years.

@jackbarnes9728 6 месяцев назад

Very odd that Bischoff says Bill Watts is a racist considering that Watts was the first promoter to put the belt on a black man.

@Edsecondstocomply 6 месяцев назад

I'm no hogan fan but bringing in nasty boys makes sense. They were a real established tag team. Jimmy hart, honky and Jim Duggan make sense to be in a southern wrasslin company. The only one with no financial benefit is beefcake, zodiac' brother Brutus, and the booty man.

@perfectblindguy 6 месяцев назад

wcw was never ever considered a regional southern promotion. WCW was always a major promotion that had national tv....

@Chevyboiz 6 месяцев назад

It was regional when it was Georgia Championship Wrestling

@JLvatron 6 месяцев назад

Eric Bischoff is amazing. Great on the mic and a wrestling legend himself by the genius he showed with Hollywood Hogan and the nWo.

@rolltide9547 6 месяцев назад

He copied and stole the NWO from Japan clueless.

@adambergeron5 6 месяцев назад

Imagine living off something the rest of your life you did for like 4 or 5 years 27 years ago

@catdad1988 6 месяцев назад

That something is more than 99% of the fanbase will ever do with their entire lives.

@ciaranmurren 4 месяца назад

Skip 9:00

@orangemaniabrother2232 6 месяцев назад

What was Austin thinking with that idea??

@korovievice 6 месяцев назад

He probably just viewed it as a part-time comedy angle that could get him screen time with the organization's biggest name. Pretending to be Hogan's family and then inevitably backstabbing him also works with the Hollywood Blonde character. Truthfully, this would've been a highlight amongst Hogan's work in WCW up until the NWO.

@zlinedavid 6 месяцев назад

Would’ve been more entertaining than the Dungeon of Doom 🙄

@terrimitchell5236 6 месяцев назад

I like wcw and wwe but I always liked wcw better should still be around wcw.

@johnwireman2660 5 месяцев назад

The one thing I was hoping he would touch on and he didn’t was Hulk Hogan’s creative control aka that doesn’t work for me, brother. It made booking Hogan difficult but that was one of the “parameters” Hogan insisted on. He didn’t trust WCW to protect him to the degree McMahon did.

@user-xd1pi6uh7d 4 месяца назад

Im surprised hogan hasnt come out with a t shirt 🎽 that says thats not going to work for me brother

@firemarshallbill7983 6 месяцев назад

As soon as the nasty boys stepped foot in the locker room the locker room should’ve quit…they should’ve known…

@rpjii9771 6 месяцев назад

It's easy to be a nice smiley face guy😊 when ya have a killer Rotty on the end of the leash... Cheers🍻 RP

@johnnyskinwalker4095 6 месяцев назад

I remember when those damn WWF wrestlers came to WCW, it sucked. It just didn't fit. That being said sometime I prefered their stuff in WCW. Like Duggan was more gritty in WCW with his tapped fist matches.

@ChuckThunder1111 5 месяцев назад

Hacksaw was the BEST!! I would trade 100 Bishofs for one Hacksaw...

@smiley-qb3nt 6 месяцев назад

Hulk Hogan once again wanted people around him to make him look good and if it was up to Hogan there would be no nwo bc he didn't want it . Wcw could have been way better with story lines but it was all about Hogan like when a star like Brett Hart came over they did nothing with him. No wonder they tanked

@Pr3stag3 4 месяца назад

0:50 Two words that are the very definition of an oxymoron "Hogan and honesty"

@jondee7454 6 месяцев назад

Why does my man have saiyan hair?

@guyverjay1289 6 месяцев назад

Say what you want about Hogan, him looking after his mates is cool

@mrFiiSKiiS 6 месяцев назад

Hogan just played the game better than the others.

@allencollins5666 5 месяцев назад

Hogan Overly-Criticized.

@ultimatevictory9900 5 месяцев назад

The guy literally signed Razor Ramon and Diesel at their peak popularity, end of story. He's no genius or braniac business man.

@Thex-W.I.T.C.H.-xMaster 5 месяцев назад

Love Hogan or hate him, usually if you were on his team you made more money 💰. Hogan was over he was one of the greatest wrestlers of the 90's and the greatest wrestler of the 80's for sure. Flair will disagree with that statement, but that's why it's called an opinion from a Hogan fan 😂.

@Krillep 6 месяцев назад

Hogan gave wrestling life, twice. We're not watching any wrestling on mainstream TV today perhaps without Hulk Hogan.

@iTubeYourDadsMinge 6 месяцев назад

You forget that Vince McMahon’s entrepreneurial approach and vision were huge factors in Hogan’s success. If McMahon didnt eat up all of thr territories and take a gamble on the first Wrestlemania, then we likely wouldnt have heard of Hulk Hogan either. Wrestling didnt explode just because of Hogan. And he grew stale, so turning him bad was the best thing to do for shock factor. To say Hogan alone is to credit for wrestling’s original boom and then late 90s peak is incredibly naive.

@Jestin612 6 месяцев назад

That's cap. It would have taken off eventually.

@andrewft31 6 месяцев назад

@@Jestin612when? And when he turned heel the industry was at an all time low and he made it must watch TV again

@Jestin612 6 месяцев назад

@@andrewft31 pfft, 🤣. Hogan is so overrated. Savage or Bret Hart could have blown it up. Hogan is just a dude who benefited by being stingy and creative. So Hall and Nash had nothing to do with the NWO?

@chadjustice8560 6 месяцев назад

Hogan is nothing without Vince shoving a ticket up his ass but also the guy on the other side, so with Piper at the beginning and then Andre to push it that much farther.