The latest episode of former WCW President Eric Bischoff’s podcast Bischoff on Wrestling was released yesterday 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 and John’s comments transcribed below.
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EB: What’s the most positive thing you took away from your time at WWE? What did you learn the most while you were there?
JM: I compute things now in terms on pro wrestling frequently. Certainly when it comes to writing film. You’ve got your shine, heat spot, comeback, falsey and then finish of the match. I compare that a lot to the same three act structure in film. It feels like in order to understand the relationships in movies, television and sporting events it’s all wrestling terms for me now. It’s kind of how I compute the world. The one thing that I really took away was something Vince McMahon said to me once that really stuck with me was, “Wrestling,” and in a broader sense television, “is all about emotions. That’s all it is. The whole point of entertainment and TV is to feel something.” It can be happy, sad, empathizing with someone you relate to, feeling triumphant when you watch someone you relate to overcome, wanting to be scared. That really simple connection I feel is something that I think is frequently overlooked. When I get stuck in an acting role or writing or trying to decide if I should do something or not in any form of entertainment I usually go back to that simple thing that Vince told me that day and decide based on that. Will it support the story? Will it create an emotional response?
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.
