Eric Bischoff has been out of the actual inner workings of wrestling since 2019 but continues to provide his experienced and educated opinions of the business as it has grown. Mind you, he’s continued to appear here and there in the big two U.S promotions but his involvement now is as part of the wrestling media.
Eric Bischoff Has No Intention to Resume Running a Wrestling Company Full Time but Is Open to Being a Creative Consultant
During an appearance on The Ariel Helwani Show, Bischoff discussed why he has no desire to run a wrestling company again. As you probably guessed it’s down to age and enjoying his lifestyle at this point in life. Using WWE Executive Director Bruce Prichard as a friend face in creative who could lure him back, Eric Bischoff said that if he were 20 years younger, he’d dive back into the creative waters.
“I loved my time, and can’t say enough about the quality of people that work in WWE. But, I’m 68 years old, and I live in a beautiful part of Wyoming — right outside Yellowstone National Park. It’s been my dream to live here since I was a little kid, and I worked my ass out throughout my life to have what I have now. At this point, I don’t want to be away for extended periods.” (h/t: Wrestling Inc)
As far as being closely associated or working with the creative direction of a company, he stated that working remotely as a consultant worked perfectly for him. Honestly, at this point it should be an option open to experienced minds like Bischoff, Cornette, and Russo. In Russo’s case, if this was how his association with TNA Wrestling was set up in 2014, the company probably could’ve retained its deal with Wrestle-1. Probably.
Bischoff also expressed that he wasn’t interested in working for AEW but would feels that owner Tony Khan is a “very, very generous heart.” Perhaps because of the amount of work and help he feels that AEW needs to be successful, he’d have to be in the arena for AEW shows. On AEW and Khan he said:
“But the truth is, for me to have any sort of positive impact on the process, you have to be in it. You can’t do it remotely. If Tony calls me and offers me a million dollars to work via Zoom, I wouldn’t do it because I know it wouldn’t be fair. It won’t be successful.”
Can you see Eric Bischoff as a remote consultant for WWE? Do you believe he would have to be in-house for AEW? Let us know in the comments.
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