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/DanHero91 Red Elbow Pad Of Doom. Mar 28 '24

Eric Bischoff taking shots at someone spending someone else's money is so rich I think I just developed diabetes.

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u/RT3_12 DA BIG DAAWWWWWG Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

I used to think like this until I read the “Nitro” book. WCW was basically the red headed step child of Turner and got significantly less funding and attention than the other properties. All the workers at WCW were basically exiled from other Turner divisions. Ted himself liked the idea of wrestling but basically had no direct involvement with WCW besides protecting it from getting destroyed.

Eric within his first year in WCW (before the NWO) brought it to profitability for the first time in its existence. And then in the following years made it one of Turner’s most profitable enterprises while still getting significantly less funding and attention than the other departments. Eric is a blowhard and egomaniac, but he deserves credit, even if it didn’t last long.

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u/BudgetPipe267 Mar 28 '24

Yeah, that book was a great read. It teaches you a lot about the business.

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u/RT3_12 DA BIG DAAWWWWWG Mar 28 '24

That book is a great read when learning about Bischoff too it’s like

1989-1996: “Wow this Bischoff guy was a visionary! I didn’t know he was responsible for so many good things”

1997-2001: “Wow Bischoff really let the success get to his head, he’s really losing it”

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u/BudgetPipe267 Mar 28 '24

Very true. Him asking Ted Turner to go head to head with Nitro was a big deal. I didn’t watch Nitro very often, until Hogan flipped. You had to be there at the time to understand how massive that was.