Eric Bischoff UNTOLD Plans For Scrapped WCW Revamp! 

Could Bischoff have saved WCW? Let us know in the comments below!

I'm of two mindsets about. On one hand I remember how much the success of the nWo was cause it was new and fresh and exciting. And that creating this "Big Bang" and relaunching WCW could have been used like the nWo but company-wide as something new and fresh. On the other hand, I keep thinking that if WCW had just returned to basics(which they never did) and give the fans what they liked during their biggest moment, it would been a steady return to success. The wildness of 99-00 chased away a lot of fans and going back to familar roots could have worked. Like return to the old WCW Nitro set. Bring back the same PBP guys like of Tony-Heenan-Tenay-Larry. The return Cruiserweight divison by bringing new young guys in it(AJ Styles). You could have the three original nWo guys along with Bischoff being Evil authority figures. You could have a fresh new Four Horsemen group with Flair as manager. Return of silent enigmatic Sting, etc...

As a hardcore WCW fan, I wish this would've happened. A total rebranding and reset for WCW. It also would've been really cool to have the home base for them be Las Vegas. I feel like that would've made it seem like a much bigger deal immediately.

Bischoff being sent away the first time might've been the death knell for the company. The ship was already sinking by then, even if the Time Warner merger had never happened, it was doomed at that point David Arquette & Vince Russo were becoming WORLD CHAMPIONS!?? The talent, and even the creative (!) were booking themselves to go over for pity's sake. Everyone in business for themselves, when the opposition were operating on the same page. WCW might've still been in the fight if it weren't for the number of singular egos preventing them from functioning cohesively

So strange, that Eric talked about pushing younger talent, when Eric talked about doing that on Off The Record with the Giant, Rey Mysterio Jr, Eddie Guerrero, Dean Malenko, DDP, Jericho, and Benoit. If Eric would have taken his own advice, WCW might have been in a different position.

I'm not biased towards any wrestling federation, only started watching wrestling in the 2010's an am not American. So bearing that in mind I love listening to Bischoff. He has given so many interviews and I think we can learn a lot from his storytelling and experience. He comes off as a very intelligent man who knows what to say, when to say it and what to leave out or when to keep his silence. He looks absolutely incredible for his age too.

The biggest plan was for Eric and Hulk to finally tie the knot.

one thing i never understood in wcw or wwf was going with an upset occasionally to build a new star, rebuild an old one, get some excitement behind tthe upset factor. yes wwf did it a bit with barry horowitz, but come on that was more to punish hhh than push horowitz. they put horowitz over skip to build to hhh getting upset. i don't think they should every year but royal rumble would be a perfect opportunity. use the months between there and mania to build the story, gauge how fans are reacting, not maybe put the belt on the upset guy, but at least let him have a good hard competitive match where any second he might pull the upset again then if you want him to lose do it. this does wo things. it builds a charcter, get's the fans talking the will he won't he stuff. if the fans are behind it u build witht the guy to see what can be done. if the fans crap on it, move on. you don't have to do this every year for the rumble, but it'd add another element to it becuase then they talk about who could be the upset winner tihs year. maybe in this day and time with no kayfabe and such maybe harder to pul off but in some respects could be easier. more feed back through facebook, twitter, etc. so let's look at wcw. assuming they had something like the rumble, or using the 60 man battle royal. the 60 man would have been perect. you keep a guy in each ring till they get to the final 10. then maybe they team up on the knowing full good an dwell that is probably their only shot, then settle it amongst themselves. maybe do 5 split it down the middle upsets and guys everybody expects to win. you're going to allow the upset, you do the 5 upset guys teaming up. you have the usual suspect for the winner you have him eliminate the upset winner guy last. even being the last one out still builds him see waht the fans think. in the rumble you always seem to have a final four or 5 that kind of set it up if a final 4 do the same thing. i guess the other issue is egos and money but if done right it could work.

Bischoff never would have pushed new talent. Hogan et al would politic their way to keep at the top, especially with creative control, and Bischoff would appease.

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WCW actually had a lot of great young talent on the roster towards the end. I think they even had a young AJ Styles. If they could have rebranded themselves and focused on building that next generation it honestly might have worked. The problem would have been that WWE roster around that timeframe was so stacked. WCW could have done everything right and they’d still have gotten curb stomped by the WWE. They’d need to have moved completely away from Raw and Smackdown and not even attempt to compete.

I just finished Vice's Who Killed WCW and now this came out 😅

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Bischoff would have kept WCW alive. It would still exist today as a separate entity. Some years it would have beaten WWE and some years it would lose. Just like any other industry. Would WCW have always been great? No. But neither is WWE.

Sad we never got to see how the vision would have played out

this guy almost killed TNA with Hogan

Look at those flea market boots , unholy hell fire !

They lost all their top younger talent: X-pac, The Giant, Jericho, Benoit, Guerrero. Bret should've been the veteran to make the up and coming talent but he was forced to retire. Just like how they lost their top younger talent in the early 90s: HHH, Austin, Foley, Goldust, Johnny B Badd, Vader. It was inevitable for guys like Booker, Steiner, Hogan, Hall, Nash, Mysterio, Goldberg,Flair would go back to WWE. The only younger guys back then who had potential who were still on the roster was AJ Styles and Sean O'Haire.

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I think people would have been severely disappointed. Just as impact lost so much with each network change - wcw coming back a few months later with a different look would still have seen a diminishing return

hmm flip the script? On the last episode of Nitro. The nWo I guess it would be 2000 at that point the Nash, Hart, Jarrett led nWo takes over WCW and leaves on a cliffhanger of "What happens next!" and WCW goes away 'for good' and the Las Vegas re-launched show is an nWo show but the scrappy remnants of WCW are showing up in the crowd and backstage and outside beating up the nWo guys and trying to get their show back.

I liked the Kanyon, ddp, Raven, Saturn saga because the matches delivered, even more so then some of the matches i watched in 2024 in WWE, because they felt innovative and fresh, everything is derivative and built on fake acrobatics nowdays. It was fake back then too, but felt like the guys were more into their character then today.

I really don't agree with a single word that was said about the Sting angles..if you watched the builds to either of his matches in wwe,& didn't see "icon", then the problem is you. That stuff,particularly the rollins build,was spectacular and this whining a decade after the fact is typical of the perpetually online captain hindsight nonsense that's an absolute disease on social media. Sting was in wwe for less than a year before injury sidelined the whole thing. In that time, Sting headlined and/or lead off several Raws. He had a 30 minute match,not including the 10 minute custom entrance,at wrestlemania for his FIRST wwe match,and his 2nd (outside of the gimmicky tags on raw) was the main event of a ppv for the world championship. How in the blue hell anyone can look at that and see "failure" is beyond me. It's beyond obvious that the wwe was going to CONTINUE using Sting as the legend that he is,if he hadn't gotten hurt,because that's what they were doing to begin with. You don't get to call it a "failure" because it was injury shortened,& you don't get to call it one because Sting waited almost a full decade too long to go. They were not gonna stick the belts on a 50 year old within 6 months of his debut. Anyone expecting more than what they got in 2014,was delusional. Anyone doing Olympic level mental gymnastics to call it a failure,in 2024,esp using sting's aew run as some kind of evidence,is absolutely lying to themselves and everyone else. That run was awesome at the time,for me,as a Sting fan who had LONG wanted to see him vs wwe. My ONLY regret is that he got hurt before they could get more out of him. Crybabies online. Wow

Eric is spot on here. Tony Khan should really listen to this advice if he wants AEW to actually be successful and not keep shedding fans.

Only good thing to come from Vince buying WCW is the tape library.

If you want to know what he would have done with wcw just look at what he did to tna and you have your answer.

AEW is currently in the stage where they need to rebrand....they've lost so many people that won't turn it back on until they see a reason to give them another chance

Bro had too much anticipation with his storytelling imo

Is it fair to say that WCW created all their own problems though? Yea they were on top for some years, but was their strategy sustainable? Did they really shine up new talent or mid carders? I feel like everything is good while it's good but you're not preparing for the coming storms with complacency, and WCW thought they could just pay their way out of everything. Looking back, WCW appears the slimier, looser company, more of the "inmates run the asylum" type place. That's not by accident. Eric Bischoff and Vince McMahon are different for a reason. And by hook or by crook, they both found themselves amidst the Monday night wars, in essentially the exact same scenario, but because Vince ran his business better, WWF wins in the end and they're still around today. So what I'm saying is, I'm sure during the planned revamp, Bischoff had a lot of good ideas, but I'm sure also as he said, the problems were just too numerous, he could probably make some progress, but all the elements needed to resuscitate the business just would have never came together, that perfect world would never happen, it's like trying to repair a building that is already half collapsed, you're better off wiping the whole thing and just starting over. Except they never got the chance to start over, they got bought and absorbed and that was the end of WCW.

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His plan was to ask meltzer what to do.

But WCW did go away for a while and then come back it was just called TNA now

erics issues all in a nutshell,you cannot run profesional wrestling like a tv exec or with solely a tv mindset! It will not work and does not work! There is a reason right now why wwe has a few wrestling guys running the shows and why tony khan is getting is ass kicked at aew because he isnt a wrestling guy!

Eric Bishoff wouldnt have been able to revamp sh*t. Look how he screwed up TNA too. So Eric just be quiet.

He's such a slimy 2nd hand car salesman......Charismatic public speaker but totally cluesless about wrestling.

Bischoff's plans for the new WCW was to put the spotlight on the older stars again.