The latest episode of former WCW President Eric Bischoff’s podcast Bischoff on Wrestling was released this past Wednesday and features newly inducted WWE Hall of Famer Diamond Dallas Page as his guest!
You can find some of Eric and I’s comments from the mailbag portion of the episode transcribed below.
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EB: I do. To me the WWE Hall of Fame should be about wrestlers. It should be about the men and women who learn the craft. Who sacrifice so much. Who took the incredible journey and faced amazing odds of making it to the big time and then went on to become huge successes. I think that should be a very select family and group of people. I don’t think periphery characters, including celebrities no matter how big they are, should necessarily share that same zip code. That’s just my personal take.
NH: I’ll say this, there is one name I think that is glaringly absent and feel free to disagree with me here, I think Andy Kaufman deserves to be in the WWE Hall of Fame. It was actually 35 years ago today that Andy Kaufman defeated Jerry Lawler by DQ after Lawler used the then banned piledriver on him.
EB: I disagree with you. I disagree. I think it was a great moment. I don’t disagree with that. It certainly did a lot for Jerry Lawler. Clearly, that’s obvious. I just stick to my guns. Andy Kaufman didn’t learn how to wrestle. He didn’t commit. He didn’t take that one-in-a-million chance to be a WWE Superstar or a Superstar in any organization. He was a funny guy. Unique guy. Certainly brought a high profile to the world but I just don’t think he’s WWE Hall of Fame material. Sorry Andy!
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:
- His experiences at WaleMania III
- The reaction the crowd gave him at the WWE Hall of Fame
- Filming a Table For 3 segment with Jim Cornette
- The Hardy Boyz return to WWE
- The Undertaker’s retirement
- The heat that Roman Reigns is getting
- The latest WWE Network subscriber count
- WWE holding try-outs in Dubai within the next month
- More…
Eric then welcomes his guest WWE Hall of Famer Diamond Dallas Page! Some of the topics DDP discusses with Eric include:
- This year’s WWE Hall of Fame ceremony
- Eric’s induction speech for him
- WWE’s input on he and Eric’s speeches
- His thoughts on the other inductee and inductor speeches
- Which speech was his favorite
- Who at the WWE Hall of Fame he was excited to see the most
- Their mutual relationships with Ric Flair
- Eric’s thoughts on Sheamus
- What DDP is up to now
- More…
You can find the “overrun” of Eric and DDP’s interview available over on IRWNetwork.com. It features Eric and DDP answering fan submitted questions regarding his Halloween Havoc 1998 match with Goldberg, Goldberg’s WM33 match, his feud with Undertaker and more…
Today’s show then wraps up with the latest #BischoffOnWrestling mail bag segment featuring Eric answering questions about:
- Why DDP didn’t end Goldberg’s streak
- Who from WCW he would have liked to have seen wrestle The Undertaker
- Whether or not the WWE should continue to induct celebrities into the WWE Hall of Fame
