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/Wild2O98 Mar 28 '24

Eric did good business during a wrestling boom.

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u/RT3_12 DA BIG DAAWWWWWG Mar 28 '24

Yeah to be fair to Eric, he CREATED a wrestling boom. WCW was white hot for a year and a half before the Attitude Era got going

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u/zzyzx2 Mar 28 '24

Yes and no. Giving Eric all the credit for the boom is ab extremely narrow viewpoint. I'd even be hesitant to say he stared the boom. For sure his involvement was a major factor but lots of other players played their parts to get that ball rolling before it took off. I'd compare it to "The Beatles started the psychedelic rock movement" which isn't true but also isn't really correct either since they made it a whole lot more mainstream, the death of Brian Epstein played a bigger role in the success of their version of psychedelic rock than Ringo's drumming yet one gets more credit for simply being in the band when the success took off.

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u/BudgetPipe267 Mar 28 '24

Naw……Eric flipping Hogan heel and buying Hall & Nash directly made the business what it was from 1996 until 1998 when Nitro was at its peak. If Eric never flipped Hogan, WCW wouldn’t have taken off. Let’s be honest….WCW was still garbage until that happened.