Eric Bischoff sees shades of some of wrestling’s most dominant attractions in Oba Femi, and he has strong feelings about how WWE should handle the King of the Ring winner.
Speaking on 83 Weeks, Bischoff compared Femi to the kind of larger-than-life monster that defined stars like Goldberg and Brock Lesnar.
“He’s a prototype. Could you ask AI to kick out anything that looks more perfect as a professional wrestling character than Oba Femi or Brock Lesnar?” Bischoff said, describing Femi as “larger than life, unbeatable looking, ferocious, great baby face, scary heel.”
Bischoff cautioned that a talent like Femi comes with a very specific challenge: there’s no middle ground. In his view, WWE must either commit fully to building him as an unstoppable force or risk losing the audience entirely.
“Goldberg (and) Oba, and just give him a mission, and have him go accomplish the s—- out of it, whatever it is, just eat through people till you’ve got him built up,” Bischoff said. “There’s very little in between with a guy like that.”
The alternative, Bischoff warned, is a fan base that quickly tunes out.
“If you don’t put him on the path, the audience is like, yeah, there’s nothing to get. He’s big, big deal,” he said. “You put him on a rocket.” Bischoff added that he’d err on the side of aggression. “I have a feeling I’d start building the hell out of them, because people have very short attention spans.”
