The latest episode of former WCW President Eric Bischoff’s podcast Bischoff on Wrestling was released this past Wednesday!
A brand new episode will be released this Wednesday around 6 pm CST. Eric will be making an announcement tonight on Twitter (@EBischoff) announcing a huge guest for this week’s show.
You can find some of Eric’s comments from his most recent episode transcribed below.
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On Jinder Mahal as the new #1 Contender to the WWE Championship and WWE’s plans to expand in India:
EB: I think one of the real values in that infrastructure (the WWE Network) is not so much the obvious. Meaning, it’s not just that they’ve got two million subscribers to the WWE Network and that generates x amount of dollars. What they really have, at the core of all of that, is the ability to do internal research. They can subtly and discreetly reach out to their database who are all WWE fans in different parts of the world. They can ask questions. They can basically do qualitative research and find out what people want to see in certain markets. I don’t know this for a fact but that’s what I would do. If I had that data I would be zeroing in on specific markets where I knew I could make money. Either because I knew there was an advertising market in that community or I knew there was a live event market I wanted to be in. Whatever strategic or technical reason I would zero in on that market and I would find ways to reach out to my database and I would engage them. I would ask them what they want to see, how they want to see, what their preferences were and what their reactions were to certain things I had already been doing. I would engage them in a way that would help me make really smart decisions. So you’re not constantly throwing stuff up against the wall and hoping it sticks. You are actually making decisions on great research. I’m guessing that is probably what WWE is doing and if it’s a big surprise that Jinder Mahal has all of a sudden come out of nowhere I would suspect there is some data that supports that decision.
This past week’s episode of Bischoff on Wrestling featured Eric and Nick chatting about a variety of topics for over an hour . Some of the topics of conversation include:
- The passing of Matt “Rosey” Anoa’i
- The Rock’s Fate Of The Furious shattering box office records
- YouTube dropping monetization for pro wrestling content
- What he and Jim Cornette bonded over on Table For 3
- WWE losing it’s television deal in the Philippines
- Impact announcing a partnership with Triple A
- Jinder Mahal’s new WWE push and what it means for their Indian expansion
- The talk of WWE buying ROH being considered “dead”
- More
This past week’s episode also featured an expanded #BischoffOnWrestling mailbag segment featuring Eric talking about:
- What Lacey Von Erich was like to work with
- Who decides on who inducts people into the WWE Hall of Fame
- If Matt Hardy should bring his broken character to WWE
- THE DUMBEST QUESTION EVER
- What happens at sports entertainment pre and post-production meetings
- If everybody should stop blaming JBL until Mauro comments
- Whether sports entertainment is more dangerous now than 20 minutes ago
- The overuse of false finishes
- The appropriate response to someone who thinks that Demolition were better than Road Warriors
- How social media would have affected WCW
- The differences between the WCW and WWE rings
- More
