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 comments regarding Sinclair Broadcasting buying Tribune Media transcribed below.
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EB: I do think that this changes the game a little bit. WGN was one of the original superstations along with TBS. Now all of a sudden Sinclair has a combination of a pretty significant syndication footprint as well as a pretty powerful cable footprint. Now all of a sudden Ring Of Honor can be a viable sports entertainment property across the board. When they were just in syndication, whatever the percentages were, I am guessing it was under 60 or 70% of the coverage strictly in syndication. Now if you do what Ted Turner did, and in the early days what WWF did, if you combine your syndicated footprint along with your cable footprint they probably have the potential of being in 97 or 98% coverage across the US. Now all of a sudden Ring of Honor can be a viable sports entertainment property. So, my opinion has changed dramatically from last week to this week.
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.
