Week In Wrestling: Gedo Talks Booking NJPW, Bischoff On The Origins Of Goldberg, Cabana’s Love Letter To Indies, Top 10 w/ Jeff Cobb, More

Sports Illustrated’s Justin Barrasso released his latest “Week In Wrestling” column as part of SI’s Extra Mustard this past Wednesday afternoon. This week’s column features:

• Booking New Japan w/ Gedo
• News of the Week
• The Nitro Files: Booking Goldberg w/ Eric Bischoff
• An exclusive Lucha Underground clip
• The Wrestler’s Tribune: Colt Cabana
• Top 10 w/ “Mr. Athletic” Jeff Cobb
• Five Questions with… James Ellsworth
• Tweet of the Week

Some excerpts from this week’s column can be found below. You can read the entire column by clicking HERE.

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Gedo on booking New Japan Pro Wrestling:

“WWE has characters, and it’s not that big a deal,” noted Gedo. “You need characters that people can understand and like, but that’s not as important as skill. Characters are different in the United States than they are in Japan. Skill and fighting spirit are most important, much more than character, in Japan. Ultimately, my most important thing is my partner, Jedo. I choose to stay with my partner.”

Eric Bischoff on whether Goldberg was the greatest WCW World Heavyweight Champion:

“How do you put value on it?” asked Bischoff. “I think it is hard to put value on it, but if you were an accountant and you were to approach that question from an accountant’s point of view, you would say that’s absolutely not true. If you’re a hardcore wrestling fan who watched WCW evolve from the NWA days, you would say that’s absolutely not true. But if you were a product of the ‘Attitude Era’ and that’s when wrestling had its biggest impression upon you, then I understand why you’d feel that way. It all depends on your perspective.”

Colt Cabana on all the wild kinds of places he’s wrestled:

I have wrestled at a fat camp. I’ve wrestled on the border towns of Mexico. I’ve wrestled for the Insane Clown Posse. I’ve wrestled for porn stars. I’ve wrestled for a company called “Bloody Midgets”. I’ve wrestled for the Inuits in the northern most part of Canada. I’ve wrestled with Aborigines in Australia. I’ve wrestled in front of the Yakuza in Japan. I’ve wrestled for hipsters drinking cheap beer and wearing ironic lucha masks.