Vince had some great ideas. Pushing Booker T and Chris Benoit and Bret Hart to the main event = Smart. Giving TV time to Rey Mysterio and Billy Kidman = Smart Take some of the TV time off the old guard to allow the younger guys to do more = smart Seriously watch the last couple of months of Nitro before Russo turned up. It was DIRE and needed shaking up. The problem was there was no Vince McMahon to filter out the 97% of his ideas that were shit.
I think the thing with Vince Russo is that he comes up with 25 ideas and 5 of them are really great. It's up to the people above him to not allow those 20 on TV. That's why he had success in WWE, only his best 5 ideas made it. On WCW all 25 ideas made it one TV, 20 of them being not good.
The genius of McMahon is he ran everything but he never thought of wrestling anything other than a business. Bischoff and Russo, got so entangled with the drama in the ring they never thought about what is good for business. Vince would come out and cut a promo and go back to his desk, Bischoff was partying with NWA and Dennis Rodman etc he got caught in the attention he was getting. Add Russo to that mix and WCW was heading straight to the iceberg with no one at the bridge!
Define irony Bischoff saying Russo never had any good ideas considering Bischoff only had one which was the nWo that was a ripoff of Japan. I'll agree Russo ruined WCW with his creative. But look at Eric's track record. He allowed his one good idea to ruin the rest of the success of WCW. Bischoff also never takes responsibility for his mistakes and failures. He speaks about it but I've never heard him one time take accountability for turning WCW around into a success then ruining it just as quickly.
Eric bischof, the Kim Jong Ill of pro wrestling.... he came up with every good idea, and never a bad one.... by the end of the 20's he will be taking credit for inventing pro wrestling.
Omg it's a joke... take some time today go out and buy a sense of humour. This is a comment section of a TH-cam video, don't take it so seriously people. I,ve hers eric take credit for stone cold Steve Austin, I've heard him take credit for Dx.... the guy takes credit for almost everything
@@aikhis , that's a joke? Seems like a statement made by someone bitter Bischoff can piss off for all I care but at least he is not Russo levels of lack of self awareness Bischoff is just some nerd who wanted to hang out with the boys using someone else's money. He was able to come up with the nWo by copying an angle from Japan that he didn't know how to finish
Hulk Hogan got creative control because he was bigger then WCW and his brand was worth more then WCW. If you were as big as Hulk you would do the same thing.
@IR17171717 Remember when Eric put the Hardcore title on Meng when he wasn't under a WCW contract, so Vince McMahon signed him and put him in the Royal Rumble as Haku?!
Seen a lot of the content this channel does. THIS was one of the best minutes answers to a question I’ve heard in a while. Bischoff has been growing on me as a person In a lot of his interviews.
A room full of marks listening to a mark interviewer ask a guy who only ever had one good idea in his life (The nWo, which he ran into the ground) if another guy (who ended his 83 week win streak against the WWF with his Attitude Era creative direction, before replacing him in his role in WCW) ever had a good idea in his life..... Also, Eric takes accountability for his mistakes? Have you heard his excuses for Starrcade 97? Go listen to Conrad Thompson grill him about that bs. What an absolute joke of a video this is....
Eric Bischoff should be employed full time by a wrestling promotion still to this day. Having him be a part of the process would be immensely valuable.
Yet you hired Vince Russo still trying to cover your negative stuff up that Eric only caused 😂😂😂Dave Meltzer Bischoff you hate Dave yet you're just exactly alike also Russo is and always had awesome ideas i feel so sorry for you Eric 🤦♂️ 😂
No wonder why WCW failed it's clearly obvious it is all Eric's ideas 😂😂😂 don't try to blame the next person though if anything and anyone, blame Dave Meltzer he's your buddy Eric
Ohhh yeah Eric? Just like you and Hogan killed TNA with your creative ideas 💡. Russo did some crazy sh!t but he had some good storylines in attitude Era and TNA. WCW was so bad with politics and creative control that it deserved Russo's crazy booking in 2000s😂 to put it out of its misery.
Says alot about you then Bischoff. You're the one who hired him and gave him so much power.
His terrible ideas trounced Eric’s creative in 98 & 99
He reviewed Survivor Series 1998 with Conrad and said it was great booking, he didn't know it was Russo's creative that did it.
Vince had some great ideas.
Pushing Booker T and Chris Benoit and Bret Hart to the main event = Smart.
Giving TV time to Rey Mysterio and Billy Kidman = Smart
Take some of the TV time off the old guard to allow the younger guys to do more = smart
Seriously watch the last couple of months of Nitro before Russo turned up. It was DIRE and needed shaking up.
The problem was there was no Vince McMahon to filter out the 97% of his ideas that were shit.
All the guys you mentioned were featured prominently by previous bookers in WCW including Eric Bischoff.
Russo has written the highest rated ever segment in raw history.
I think the thing with Vince Russo is that he comes up with 25 ideas and 5 of them are really great. It's up to the people above him to not allow those 20 on TV. That's why he had success in WWE, only his best 5 ideas made it. On WCW all 25 ideas made it one TV, 20 of them being not good.
The genius of McMahon is he ran everything but he never thought of wrestling anything other than a business. Bischoff and Russo, got so entangled with the drama in the ring they never thought about what is good for business. Vince would come out and cut a promo and go back to his desk, Bischoff was partying with NWA and Dennis Rodman etc he got caught in the attention he was getting. Add Russo to that mix and WCW was heading straight to the iceberg with no one at the bridge!
Define irony Bischoff saying Russo never had any good ideas considering Bischoff only had one which was the nWo that was a ripoff of Japan. I'll agree Russo ruined WCW with his creative. But look at Eric's track record. He allowed his one good idea to ruin the rest of the success of WCW. Bischoff also never takes responsibility for his mistakes and failures. He speaks about it but I've never heard him one time take accountability for turning WCW around into a success then ruining it just as quickly.
To be fair, WCW was ruined before Russo got there.
Eric looking like Vince McMahon
WCW World Heavyweight Champion, Booker T
Eric bischof, the Kim Jong Ill of pro wrestling.... he came up with every good idea, and never a bad one.... by the end of the 20's he will be taking credit for inventing pro wrestling.
But he just said in this clip he has had bad ideas?
Found Vinnie Ru's alt account
So you didn’t watch the video.
Omg it's a joke... take some time today go out and buy a sense of humour. This is a comment section of a TH-cam video, don't take it so seriously people. I,ve hers eric take credit for stone cold Steve Austin, I've heard him take credit for Dx.... the guy takes credit for almost everything
@@aikhis , that's a joke? Seems like a statement made by someone bitter
Bischoff can piss off for all I care but at least he is not Russo levels of lack of self awareness
Bischoff is just some nerd who wanted to hang out with the boys using someone else's money. He was able to come up with the nWo by copying an angle from Japan that he didn't know how to finish
@@CesarRicardo-y5j do you know who Kim Jong I'll is? Lol probably why you don't get it.
Whose idea was it to give Hulk Hogan creative control? I don't think it was Russo's, Eric wasn't that much smarter.
He certainly smarter than you🤡
Hulk Hogan got creative control because he was bigger then WCW and his brand was worth more then WCW. If you were as big as Hulk you would do the same thing.
@@DoktahDoktah I agree
Bischoff had terrible ideas and good ideas. Russo had only bad ideas.
@IR17171717 Remember when Eric put the Hardcore title on Meng when he wasn't under a WCW contract, so Vince McMahon signed him and put him in the Royal Rumble as Haku?!
Seen a lot of the content this channel does. THIS was one of the best minutes answers to a question I’ve heard in a while. Bischoff has been growing on me as a person In a lot of his interviews.
A room full of marks listening to a mark interviewer ask a guy who only ever had one good idea in his life (The nWo, which he ran into the ground) if another guy (who ended his 83 week win streak against the WWF with his Attitude Era creative direction, before replacing him in his role in WCW) ever had a good idea in his life.....
Also, Eric takes accountability for his mistakes? Have you heard his excuses for Starrcade 97? Go listen to Conrad Thompson grill him about that bs. What an absolute joke of a video this is....
That’s it! After hearing that powerful speech. Imma ask the girl I really like, out.
Eric Bischoff should be employed full time by a wrestling promotion still to this day.
Having him be a part of the process would be immensely valuable.
Nah. He's done.
Pretty sure the Attitude Era was a good idea.
I don't think the ITR interviewer asked for Eric to get all Tony Robbins, he even gets out of his chair.
No way bro
Miss Hancock was about the only good thing Russo came up with in WCW
With miss Hancock alot of that is very good genetics
WCW was the shittzzz before Vince RussBro got there
Then why did it go Down the Toilet when he got there???
Yet you hired Vince Russo still trying to cover your negative stuff up that Eric only caused 😂😂😂Dave Meltzer Bischoff you hate Dave yet you're just exactly alike also Russo is and always had awesome ideas i feel so sorry for you Eric 🤦♂️ 😂
No wonder why WCW failed it's clearly obvious it is all Eric's ideas 😂😂😂 don't try to blame the next person though if anything and anyone, blame Dave Meltzer he's your buddy Eric
If you want to talk about grifters Russo is patient zero.
Ohhh yeah Eric? Just like you and Hogan killed TNA with your creative ideas 💡. Russo did some crazy sh!t but he had some good storylines in attitude Era and TNA. WCW was so bad with politics and creative control that it deserved Russo's crazy booking in 2000s😂 to put it out of its misery.