STW #33: Why WWE Fired Bruce Prichard?! 

Which interview was this lol

Bruce will improve the current product

Well, you know..;)

I'd want to listen to that premiere

Because Vince is desperate

Because Steph is clearly a failure and doesn’t understand that building a huge brand doesn’t make up for not getting talent over

He probably won't do a podcast but he has to do a movie or book.

Bro..

​@@jmiller9972He would never do it. He doesn't need the money for start.

Gee ya think. I haven’t watched the so called product in 12 years. It’s unwatchable politically correct, vanilla midget crap.

@@CobraCraig88 Yeah nxt is good but most of the dudes look like they just graduated from high school

Stephanie hasn't been in creative for a decade

@@CobraCraig88 This! This comment. I'm in the same boat, man.

And now Bruce is back, he produced the Firefly Funhouse "match" at wrestlemania which was the best part of this wrestlemania. And considering he says in this podcast he wanted to learn how to make movies, well I guess this is proof he did eventually learn how.

Pinnacle Productions she doesn't need people who know pro wrestling, she needs people to run TV shows. WWE isn't pro wrestling and hasn't been for 40 years.

@@cptnmrgnkid People like you are why the product is, and has been, complete ass for the last decade.

@@finsfan90 This is true!

@@finsfan90 To be fair WWE is more profitable than ever, which is the motivation.

About "Sports Entertainment"

And the business has never been more successful and profitable under her creative control. Do we know who Vince replaced when he joined the company in the 1970's?

Sounds like she thought women can juggle being a business person and a mom. They cannot.

@@joshportie what a sexist comment

@@whileimhere.6177 its really not. You cannot be a fulltime parent and work. Your children pay the price. And two the most valuable job in society is a parent. Its a far far higher calling than grinding for money and fame. Its actually sexist of you to make your comment.

@@whileimhere.6177 Its not sexist; its mostly true! Its hard to he a good dad when youre working ALL THE TIME! Dad’s miss games, birthdays, graduations, milestone moments, and tbh honest, to most kids, thats okay! But its never okay when your mom misses them or forgets, or just cant be there due to work! Are you suggesting that women can straight do it ALL???

Hindsight being 20/20, I mean he does work there again now lmao

HaeravonFAQs What if it was Trump?

Well to be fair, Stephanie McMahon has shown that she has at least an idea of what she’s doing, that a hell of a lot more than you can say about Impact Wrestling’s Dixie Carter.

JJ Abeyta Yeah, with a team of help from much smarter people.

Well dah

@@Vikashar 😂😂😂

Joshua O'Neill yeah. It gets uncomfortable there at the end and you can tell he’s hiding shit

I love how Conrad twist the knife in Bruce's side at 27:36

If I were vince, I would have realized how real of a friend he has in Bruce with how well he handled that.

He is the king of the brown nosers and he knows that if he criticized her he could never go back. It paid off he's back there producing mediocre TV again.

@@geneanthony3421 that's the way everyone looks at it but god damn pal, if you worked side by side with someone who gave you every meaningful opportunity in your career and made you millions of dollars would you be first in line to criticize and bury them? Sometimes personal relationships are more important than what everyone online wants to hear.

Sounded like there was more to the story. Doesn’t add up

@@inutero10 exactly what it is says dummy

@@inutero10 that's not how he meant it clown so stfu bitchboy

@@inutero10 Clearly you don't understand context.

He does actually embody what Ultimate Warrior talked about when he said the people behind the scenes deserved recognition too.

Rob Babecki well duh rob u just realizing this

He's under no obligation to reveal details he'd like to keep confidential, for whatever reason. These guys (like Prichard and Bischoff) aren't under oath while they're doing these podcasts.

There are some things they probably can’t disclose. Too risky for them.

He's apologizing too much but it makes sense now since he did go back to the wwe sort of with Something Else to Wrestle With

Well why would he cut ties for the sake of some shitty podcast

Dominic Rigsby listen to Cornette. You’ll change your mind

@@fins2334 yeah but Cornette is so old school minded Love that guy and love his podcast as well but this one here STW is top notch because Bruce has literally been with Vince for over 20 plus years. So he has a ton of stories and info to discuss

@@fins2334 00000

High road ? Lol he’s the biggest company guy ever . He literally has never once spoke negative about anything WWF has done

Hi Bruce

@@jasonvoorhees6416 except when they hired Jerry Jarrett.

​@@jasonvoorhees6416You clearly have not listened to the podcast enough. He doesn't have to pretend the place is a hell hole when he worked there for 30 years straight.

Cuz Bruce was a stooge all his life and still is?

What an idiot

Goddamn pal!

sanchez501 and his dusty, macho Man, Cornett, Jerry jarrett, etc etc

well you know

Daven Watts and terry funk

Doot doot doot!

He was trying to not burn bridges to come back. All the careful wording has apparently paid off now, he just gutted NXT along with Johnny Ace and Vince.

​@@210Dinero The whole end of this podcast is blowing Stephanie.

I don't think it's fair to say he got screwed. I think he has made it clear he had attitude issues and clashes, which is what led to it. I think it could've been handled better on both sides, but I think he contributed fairly to his dismissal.

JR7827 Conrad is awesome!

The Lob Mob Conrad sucks ass

Hes both. He actually is a good interviewer asks good questions. Warm and friendly can joke around. Yet hes not afraid to call people out on their bullshit. It took me a while to realize this because of how much of a disgusting diarea shart of a human being he is.

He does seem to always try to protect himself though, he will start a topic about a certain individual, ask his interviewee for all the juicy details on them to bury them but then he'll clarify how much he personally likes that person in question so he doesn't burn his bridges with them.

Because there is. Most of this is lies

@@andrewisjesus Based on what exactly? The reports from the same two or three "journalists" that spent 15 years telling us Bruce only kept his job for so long because he kissed Vince's ass, only for those same "journalists" to turn round and tell us he was fired because Stephanie didn't like him arguing with Daddy in production meetings. These "journalists" really are the greatest workers in wrestling history based on how much of their contradictory bullshit wrestling fans will swallow.

Vic Crown you replied to a 2 year old comment just for that. Wow

@@ultraviolentlight2867 Well I'm replying to your 7 month comment, isn't that why RU-vid archives comments in the first place? Lol. I also think there's a lot more to the story and you can hear it in Bruce's voice. Not that it even matters now, the guys been back since 2018, still interesting stuff.

Female ego in a managerial role at the workplace......man I rather work for Michael Jordan General Patton and Vince Lombardi than to be under that.

Steph was the writer mainly on smackdown when she first took over

He wanna go back can't knock him .that's y corny way more fun to listen to..he doesn't give a fuck lmao

Can't blame him. That's what adults do. And in hindsight it resulted in the Network deal and Bruce going back. Think about the hundreds of thousands of dollars more he has made because he was smart about this.

Jim Tuner my assessment as well

Jim Tuner eat shit

I get that from a perspective as I'm 28 and the PG era just isn't my taste. But I see why they do it this way when considering the financial results. I think back to people like Bischoff pointing out that back in the day wrestling had huge ratings but because of the product content they couldn't monetize it. So I get it from a public company sense to do it the way they do, and it's hard to argue with their logic when considering they just reported their most profitable year ever.

Shit that should be happening every week.

false. best show on TV world wide

Pinnacle Productions shut up

@@Super122291 Haha

Go fuck yourself

If you havent figured out prichard is a compulsive liar yet, there is no helping you. He totally dodged his drug issue and the gun thing that everyone around him said happened

@@Super122291 LMAO

Hard to say. She started working for WWF full time right after graduating college. And people like Bruce have said that she is a lot like Vince. I don't think not working there would disappoint Vince. When Shane left the company for awhile he said that Vince was really proud of him venturing out for that endeavor so who knows. In the end I can't imagine she regrets the decision. I'm not trying to say she isn't talented, but I feel it is fairly safe to say she wouldn't be in an executive role with a high six figure income and multi million net worth at the fairly young age of 45 now if she had simply gone to the free market. I know Bruce always points out how hard Vince is on his kids, and as the child of a type A father I can certainly see how that is. That said I think she obviously has talent but she definitely flew up the corporate ladder much faster than a person would who wasn't family.

Dredd Bustya DAM! I never did like her.

She tweeted "Philanthropy is the future of marketing"

I'M SO SICK AND TIRED OF GOING THRU LIFE WITH A SHORT DICK

That's not how she wrote it, but yeah, that's what it meant in a nutshell.

She uses dying children for publicity. She and her company are pure evil.

I think it's a sign of maturity and adulthood to not burn your bridges. You have a lot more opportunities in life when you don't act like a child. And in the end it resulted in a WWE Network deal and Bruce returning. That's just smart business.

Ben Williams lol what a mark

Same

Done

He had every reason to believe that then

Rumor innuendo here 😆

She was head of creative from 2002-13. In 2002 the average raw rating for the year was 4.01 and in 2013 it was 3.0. So not necessarily the decline many attribute. But I also think people should recognize the de facto head of creative doesn't really matter. The final say has always and will always be Vince.

She's gone now in 2023

He only cares about Steph, because Shane is the weak one.

@@j.3o21 No he cares abt his family. But Shane didnt want to fight his own sister for the throne--imo

Chris Monk *you're

@@timhurst1350 honesty while your add it.

I remember him on Mid-South Wrestling as a young kid, before the Brother Love character.

@@melbias5046 haha, is this sarcasm? He just corrected him for misspelling "You're", then you turn around and do the same thing.

@@jamesdjl4359 smart man!

Stephanie was young at the time, and insecure. I'm sure present day, that she is secure in her job. If Bruce was working today for WWE (which he is, ironically), probably Stephanie would make Bruce her second in command. That is the mark of a good leader, to realize that good people, who may not always agree with you, need to be officially rewarded....

@@marknorth8904 She needs to go

I think they both have fault. But I can kinda see her perspective. If you let his actions slide then the team is going to continue going to him and never embrace you in your position of authority. I think it was just a shitty situation to put them all in really.

​​@@Matt-cr4vvIt's not about letting his actions "slide" as if he was some trouble maker. If people call Bruce an ass kisser, I'm not sure according to that idea, he would do things that would be detrimental to his relationship with the office. Secondly the issue with Steph was that when she came back from her pregnancies, the boys were going to Prichard more than her if they needed approval of something because they knew him before Steph, and also they were just more comfortable talking with Bruce and it seemed to play on her mind. Giving Bruce leeway because of his long tenure means allowing him to approve things on the show itself without having to go to Steph all the time, which again HE WAS DOING BEFORE SHE EVER GOT THE ROLE. And never forget, Vince still has to have overall approval, even when steph would approve so there was no reason for her to be almost kinda jealous of the commradery the boys showed with Bruce.

If you believe everything you hear on wrestling podcasts you're a mark.

Gerald Morgan I picked up on that too. Hilarious

Best part of the whole interview I laughed so hard

I think this episode was originally from 2017. So it was still like two years before he was back in the fold and I genuinely don't think he ever thought it'd be possible again considering he'd been gone for almost a decade at that point.

Gene Anthony pretty simple: all you mentioned were closer to the talent and more on air characters...Bruce said many many times that as a writer you re always in trouble with the talent and never really liked... Bruce had to go a long and hard way to his own „next“ mindset...still has to speak it out loud very often...

Who???

I thought he was pretty fair in how he approached it and respect that he owned it.

it's the wrestling business (You can call it Sports entertainment if that makes you feel better) so that's what you should expect. Music and movie business is the same kind of shit. Everybody tryna position themselves and climb the ladder. If that means, someone else is out, so be it. Dog eat dog wold.

I mean, they're all snakes. Bruce politicked just as much as Russo, Cornette and others. (Not on Bischoff's level though. Eric was the ultimate backstabber.) Just look at how Bruce landed the EVP role at TNA. He was sitting at home after WWE fired him, Russo gave him a call to come in as a part-time producer. I'm sure Russo thought he could take advantage of Bruce's knowledge whilst making Bruce think he "owed one" to Russo. Instead, Bruce immediately worked his magic on Dixie and got hired to a newly created role where Russo reported to him. They've all backstabbed each other at one point or another.

James Bonnen Because if someone tries to bury you at sea, you can float back to the top

Most veterans of the rassling biz like living on the edge.

T D I’ve been in the business for 500 years, I know my shit

Vince still in charge

KhronicYouth That's probably because you're online in groups and on the dirt sheets so nothing is surprising or special anymore.

cptnmrgnkid im talking about things like blind tags in tag matches,keeping them in the opponents corner , isolating a body part in single matches, selling has lost alot of its importance but thats due to the evolution of the style the wrestlers are wrestling but im talking about the small stuff that make up technique and rules and just little stuff like the psychology in the matches themself . My gripe with creative which is stephanies part is just how no one is really allowed to get over unless chosen ...im 31 ,back when angle vs benoit or jericho and guerrero and all of those great wrestlers were making their mark they had the freedom that if thet by chance got over with their wrestlingvor their character they were rewarded atleast with a chance. I still like wrestling there are,some standouts i highly enjoy watching but the way the ball bounces is my biggest problem with it not the entire game but it seems like the ball is being passed for them instead of just anyone able to really take it

No one likes how the McMahon "dynasty" has been playing out with Stephanie involved. But I cannot knock the process because Vince McMahon was in the same position when he took over from his father. The difference though is that Vince was highly ambitious and had unheard of plans to take wrestling mainstream. With a golden goose like Hulk Hogan, he was successful in doing that. These ambitions though have led to multiple things. One of which is what used to be much guarded secrets amongst the pro-wrestling brotherhood, is now practically common knowledge. Then you got Stephanie trying to take over for Vince, but she lacks the vision and ambition of her father, but in fairness to her, where else can wrestling go? Bruce and Conrad can say what they want about Triple H being great, but let's be real here...do you honestly think Paul Levesque would have a VP position if he was having his nights in Chyna? The fact he was in a group of wrestlers who manipulated Vince and later his competition to make themselves into stars and keep better wrestlers down...and NOW he has a VP role! It concerns me for wrestling.

Joseph Carrino please learn the difference between loose and lose.

Bozilla Live Stream Because Conrad is a glorified fan who isn’t actually cut out to host a show

Lee Smokin lol maybe cause it IS their fault!

Only show in town they want back in

Chat me up

I think most people in positions like him have made it known that it's an acquired taste gig. It's a 24/7 high stress gig.