Eric Bischoff - When Ric Flair Attacked Me Backstage in WWE 

I imagine Bischoff standing there doing nothing while Flair is selling his comeback.

@@rick2373Bischoff: “And all of a sudden Ric is bleeding profusely on his knees with both hands out, saying “Oh God!” over and over while shaking his head and getting blood all over my floor.”

Ric is so used to not hurting his opponent when he punches (this is ingrained into him by instinct) that he is probably completely ineffective if he were to get into a real life fight. Another version of the story by Bischoff is that he actually did not feel Ric's punches and he doesn't even remember being touched at all.

​@hitfan2000 Imagine Ric in a bar fight. He would be trying to put a figure four on someone and going woooo the whole time.

Eric is lucky Ric wasn't throwing chops.

He was pretty tough when he was young. He competed in football, amateur wrestling, and track in high school. When he first started wrestling he was nearly 300 pounds and worked out with olympic weight lifter Ken Patera. He also made it through Verne Gagne's wrestling training. That training was grueling.

@@mr.joedirt8583 Yeah, rugged guy, great athlete, can take pain. Tough in that sense, but fighter no. A few guys punked him out behind the scenes, Scott Steiner one of them, but who wouldn't be afraid of him but bischoff , he knew wasn't gonna fight back.

How you know?

​@denisdemey9624 looking tough and being able to fight are two completely different animals, someone can look jacked up but not know how to throw a punch.

@@wodensthrone5215 yes 💯 %

Arn Anderson?

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lmao!

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Saying that Ric was "nowhere near as big as WWE and others tell us he was," is just objectively and historically false. I suppose all of the vintage wrestling magazines from the 70's, 80's, & 90's were all lies? Geez, what _isn't_ a "conspiracy" these days?!

​@@UMAMIMAMU Actually, the vintage wrestling magazines support what I'm saying. He wasn't really featured much until about the 1990s; and even then, not too often. You can Google "Vintage Wrestling magazines" click images, and see that he was not featured nearly as often as others (Hogan, Luger, Dusty, Andre, dozens of others, even the Sheik, was featured more). You can look at the title reigns and verify what I said above, that dozens have had more significant runs, that his 8 runs in WCW are mostly bloat on his title reign count (some as short as a week, even 1 day). And you can look at Flair's matches from any period and see that he doesn't have any good ones (his best one was probably the one where Shawn cried before kicking senior citizen Flair in the face). He's just not as good as you think he was, nor was he as popular. It wasn't until after WCW and the Attitude era that you began hearing that sort of nonsense. If you don't want to take my word for it, look up what Bruno Samartino had to say about the re-writing of Flair's legacy. Bruno Samartino, who was actually biggest wrestler of the 1970s, and still bigger than Flair in the 1980s.

@@lindenstromberg6859 I googled "Ric Flair magazine covers" and, bare minimum (not sure how many the website was missing) he appeared on 113 magazine covers between August 1977 and December 1989. Bruno Sammartino was _not_ the "biggest wrestler of the 70's". In the northeast, maybe. Few people outside of the New England/NY/PA area would have known much about Bruno outside of maybe hearing his name. And I could care less about what Bruno's opinion on Flair's career is. It doesn't change history. I'll fully agree with you that his title-holding history is unnecessarily fluffed up in retrospect. But that doesn't change what his status was in the 80's and how ridiculously over he was. Flair was travelling the country, and, sometimes world to defend the NWA heavyweight title. Something the WWWF/WWF wasn't really onto until Vince Jr. took over. Flair was the top guy in the NWA, who represented an overwhelming majority of the country. Now I won't deny that McMahon's '84 expansion/hostile takeover didn't change things drastically. Obviously it did. International distribution/broadcasting will do that. Doesn't change the fact that the deep south, i.e. the biggest demograph in wrestling at the time, didn't quite take super kindly to the slick NY style of overproduced family friendly cartoon wrestling that Vince was producing.

@@lindenstromberg6859yeah, flair was carrying Jim Crockett when it was the clear number 2 promotion in the country and they were running hot. Ric definitely did draw.

​@@Thor-Orion I'm not from the US. We had multiple shows, all branded WWF in the 1980s until WCW emerged in the mid-1990s. Everyone knew WWF. There was no #2 promotion until WCW in the mid-1990s. ECW and FMW both became a thing too by the late 1990s, but mostly in the form of overpriced VHSs in dingy import shops. Stampede Wrestling was known to most, but we didn't get any TV show related to it unless it was through WWF. Jim Crocket, I think the first time I ever heard of it was on some Jim Cornette podcast.

You really believe Kevin Nash?

Yes it seems like something he would do.

@BigJoe504 who?

Nash drew, Flair didn't.

Right place right time nose up the right ass

Flair or Bischoff?

*Bankrupt Bischoff is such a Carny There, fixed

@@Nostalgia9478 Yes he is, not to the degree Flair is though

@@romans52345-cy3tq Bankrupt Bischoff is a wayyyyyy bigger Carny than Flair

More like a raging alcoholic. He’s at best a walking parody of himself nowadays.

@@brentwebster6341 Still better than Bankrupt Bischoff

He's a new yorker with a french surname. Plain and simple.

@@TuriyanGold The name 'Bischoff' is German dude.

another one of his stories was that he wanted David on the roster because it gave him a lot of possibilities storylinewise

for real

so? Same for me

*Flair went harder than Jungle Boy and the Young Bucks There, fixed lol

Bankrupt Bischoff had a phone on him Why didn't he call the cops himself????

Why?

He fought someone

@@remigius636Why didnt Bischoff call the cops himself????

@@remigius636So basically Bankrupt Bischoff SCREWED Bankrupt Bischoff lol

Not a coward...ok I'll give you that... not a LIAR??? EVERYTHING he says about his wrestling past is a work... period. It was a work then..its a work now. Shoot interview my A**.

@@Kafka451 Lol... you defo have never had a girlfriend.

I don't think he's dishonest, but I think he's slick. I believe the things he says but I think he spins the truth in a way that suits him. He's essentially a very good salesman. For example in this story, he comes across very reasonable, but what he omits is that he permitted other wrestlers to walk all over him for years, which lead to the downfall of WCW

@@DJObiSmalls a work is a work........ g/f or on the job. Each gives you benefits as long as con holds up.

Bischoff is a politician. He is still involved in the business, he doesn't want to offend anyone or their family, so he picks his words very carefully. He is very honest about that at least.

Flair did far more damage to himself than he did to Bischoff.

@@danielburger1775 Bankrupt Bischoff did far more damage to himself than he ever did to Flair

@Nostalgia9478 I was talking about this incident. Flair wanted to beat up Bischoff. He hit Bischoff multiple times. When other guys stepped in, Bischoff was more confused than anything else. Flair was breathing heavily, drenched with sweat, bleeding from the mouth, and suffering chest pains. Flair literally did far more physical damage to himself by attacking Bischoff than he did to Bischoff.

@@danielburger1775 I was talking about their feud Bankrupt Bischoff wanted to humiliate Flair in 1998.. His antics ended up putting WCW out business and he ended up filing Chapter 11 Bankruptcy a SECOND time.. Bankrupt Bischoff SCREWED Bankrupt Bischoff Wooooooooo!!! lol

@@Nostalgia9478 Bischoff didn't put WCW out of business. After the AOL-Time Warner merger, numerous assets were sold off for a small fraction of their actual value. One of those was WCW. As for humiliating Flair, nobody does that better than Flair himself, as his recent actions at that pizza place show.

I think drunk is more likely

So did Bischoff.

Ric stayed as an active wrestler way too long.

Dick Flair is, was and will always be an overpushed, overrated joke

@@Henderson1011Yea. Its unwatchable thanks to Bankrupt Bischoff

With fake wrestling punches you mean?

@@Andy-O374 clearly you were raised in the soy boy era

@@easter_sunday No. I just know that Flair threw worked punches at Bischoff, so what you are trying to assert makes no sense. Stop being slow in the head.

@@Andy-O374 You think private backstage events were for your entertainment? You sound slow in the head!

@@easter_sunday Bischoff himself said the punches were fake wrestling style punches. Keep replying and making an idiot of yourself though. It's funny 🤣

He's talking about different things. The interview jumped ahead.

Ernest “The Cat” Miller trained Bischoff and has said that he had serious martial arts skills.