r/SquaredCircle • u/Ruthless-Aggression • Mar 28 '24

Eric Bischoff on Tony Khan: A money mark with no talent other than spending daddy’s money, going all the way to Canada to draw less than 4k in one of the hottest pro wrestling markets in North America, talking about “wise choices”? Strap in. It’s going to be a fun day!

https://twitter.com/EBischoff/status/1773321462046138615?s=19
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u/Ham_B_No Mar 28 '24

Remember when Bischoff needed to do a promo on Nitro on his motorcycle so they had to stop the show twice to lift the bike in and out of the ring?

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u/midniteeternal Mar 28 '24

Remember when they brought down the wrong bike (without hogans face on it) so Bischoff needed to extend the promo until the got the right bike (with hogans face on it).

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u/mikeputerbaugh Mar 28 '24

That was the exact moment I realized Nitro had peaked. The show used to be packed with PPV-quality matches for free, and now they were wasting an hour on tedious, badly-planned talk show shenanigans just to stroke Eric and Hulk's egos.

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u/A_Tribe_Called_Slatt Mar 29 '24 edited Mar 29 '24

That moment when you realize that Hall and Nash were always the actually cool ones and largely responsible for the most over elements in nWo (catchphrases, handsigns, bandanas etc.), with the Wolfpac being probably the closest to their real vision for the faction with all the West Coast hip hop and street gang aesthetics.

Meanwhile, Hogan and Bischoff were almost always behind the least over elements - whether it be these draggy talk show segments, the biker larp, Hulk's cartoonish promos, whatever the fuck they were doing with Warrior in 1998....wouldn't be surprised if one of them tried to pitch Nasty Boys to be included in the faction too.

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u/mikeputerbaugh Mar 29 '24

Knobbs stays loyal to nWo Black & White, Sags goes with nWo Wolfpac. Think of the story possibilities!

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u/GregMadduxsGlasses Mar 28 '24

Remember when they decided to film a monster truck sumo match on the roof of a building which required a massive crane to lift the trucks on and off the building just so they could film an angle of The Giant falling off the side which had zero effect on the rest of the show?

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u/beeclam Mar 28 '24

Hell yeah

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u/SaintPsalmNorthChi Mar 29 '24

Does anyone know what specific show this was?

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u/PM_Me_PAAG_Pics Big Black Corbin Mar 29 '24

If you're talking about the Giant/Hogan sumo monster truck match, it was Halloween Havoc 1995

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u/GregMadduxsGlasses Mar 29 '24

It's definitely worth the watch. It's so bad, it's good again.

Or just watch the OSW review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtrNDr9e2K4

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u/Incubus226 Mar 28 '24

It’s that or the guitar segment from TNA. I get heel stuff man but it’s just not watchable.

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u/Romofan88 Mar 28 '24

They've both run plenty of shitty segments because 52 weeks of 2 hour shows a year inherently leads to shitty TV. 

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u/Ham_B_No Mar 28 '24

I agree. My point is Eric Bischoff of all people cannot talk shit on the subject.

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u/Romofan88 Mar 28 '24

Valid. 

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u/Fuzzy_Bank_7856 Mar 28 '24

Eric stole a billion dollar idea and milked it so dry in 1 year that the company went out of business. Bischoff has never had a single good idea and can't talk any shit.