Pro wrestling legend Eric Bischoff shares 1 creative angle that failed to take off
Pro wrestling legend Eric Bischoff helped revolutionize the industry in the 1990s, but there was one story that didn't pass the sniff test, much to the dismay of the former executive producer.
Bischoff told Fox News Digital in a recent interview that there was at least one story he pitched at Turner Sports that didn't go well.
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Eric Bischoff (Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for SiriusXM/File)
The former president of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) explained that he was a pilot and was certified to fly “sophisticated high-performance aircraft” and that he had this uncontrollable vision in 1998.
“I flew all over the country. I love flying, and there was a time when I was down in Arizona for some reason and I was flying around, and I thought, 'Wow, wouldn't it be fun if I faked my own death?' I mean, wouldn't it be fun if I, you know, let it be known that i was driving around southern arizona and checking out some of the sights and somehow i wandered into mexican airspace and apparently ran out of gas or something and ended up dead. They couldn't find the plane or me.
“I wanted to go with that. This was like a month or two before Halloween Havoc, and I was going to die in a plane crash and show up as my ghost at Halloween Havoc in Las Vegas. I was so. excited about it.”
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Eric Bischoff speaks on stage at “The Roast of Ric Flair” at the Nashville Fairgrounds on July 29, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
Bischoff said he made a short list of people he would tell that the crash angle was all part of his story, including his family members.
He said he knows he has to tell Turner Sports that he is planning this idea because he is the president of a publicly traded company. So, Bischoff explained that he had a meeting with Turner Sports CEO Harvey Schiller.
Bischoff explained that Schiller rarely, if ever, rejected any of Bischoff's ideas.
“I went to Harvey and told him, he wasn't impressed,” Bischoff told Fox News Digital. “He felt like I was the man. But it wouldn't work. It wouldn't work in any other business. But it would work in wrestling.
“I thought about it really well. I wish I could have pulled it off, but it wasn't in the cards.”
Years later, Bischoff finds himself back in the creative spotlight.
Eric Bischoff was previously the head of World Championship Wrestling. (Major League Wrestling)
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He will be running the One Show Major League Wrestling pay-per-view on Dec. 5. He told Fox News Digital that he will donate his paycheck to the Tunnels to Tower Foundation.
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