The latest episode of former WCW President Eric Bischoff’s podcast Bischoff on Wrestling was released this past Wednesday and features an interview with his former WWE RAW GM apprentice Johnny “Nitro” Morrison (aka Lucha Underground’s Johnny Mundo)!
You can find some of Eric’s and John’s comments transcribed below.
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EB: My response when people ask me, “How do you make wrestling cool again?” The fact is you can’t force that. It does have to happen organically. Certain things have to go along with that. There has to be certain opportunities and investments. All of that kind of thing. It’s really interesting to me, right now at this stage in my career, you start to see Wrestle Circus and other independents really emerging with a cool factor all of their own that’s completely all their own. It’s a very organic cool factor as opposed to a cookie cutter cool factor.
JM: This may or may not be what it is but I think that part of it is the classification of wrestling as art as opposed to people thinking wrestling is real or predetermined. Then MMA came along and wrestling now kind of just exists in the WWE. They’ve been the only game in town. With this new classification of wrestling as art it opens the door to make wrestling cool again. Make it something that can be appreciated on a different level. I think you’re right, too. If anyone forces it to be cool, well, that’s not how it works (laughs).
This week’s episode of Bischoff on Wrestling starts with Eric giving his take on a couple of stories from around the business of pro wrestling from this past week. Including:
- Donald Trump “future endeavoring” James Comey
- Sinclair Broadcasting buying Tribune Media for $4 billion
- WWE RAW doing it’s lowest rating of the year
- WWE’s 1st Quarter 2017 Results
- The upcoming 32 woman tournament that will be airing on the WWE Network
- More…
Eric then welcomes his former WWE RAW GM apprentice Johnny “Nitro” Morrison (aka Lucha Underground’s Johnny Mundo)! Some of the topics John discusses with Eric include:
- His acting background before landing in the world of pro wrestling
- What his time was like on Tough Enough
- His Dad being an inspiration to him
- What his family’s reaction was to him becoming a pro wrestler
- The best thing he took away from his time in WWE
- Feeling caught between wrestling generations
- What he misses least about WWE
- Lucha Underground and who is responsible for creative there
- Lucha Underground’s influence on the independent wrestling scene
- How to make pro wrestling cool
- His new movie Boone: The Bounty Hunter
- What he had to do to finance the film
- His favorite memory of his time as Eric’s RAW GM apprentice
- More…
You can find this week’s Bischoff on Wrestling Mailbag on IRWNetwork.com as part of this week’s Bischoff on Wrestling Overrun.
