Top Guys and My Push members on AdFreeShows.com had a chance to sit down with Eric Bischoff and his son Garrett. The show covers everything from their lives, wrestling, and more.
Eric Bischoff was asked, “Do you think that wrestling could have organically grown into what it became in the late ‘90s without the WCW vs WWE dynamic?”
Bischoff answered, “Absolutely not. I’m going to say something that so many people when they hear about me saying this are going to disagree with it. But guess what? I don’t give a f**k, If it wasn’t for WCW, if it wasn’t for Nitro, if it wasn’t for the success of Nitro in ‘96, ‘97 and ‘98, the WWE wouldn’t exist today. The WWE was on a serious downward trend with no reason to believe at all that anything was going to turn around because it would have required Vince McMahon to completely shift the way he did creative, which he did starting in late ‘97.
But it took Nitro to show him the way. Had Nitro never been there, had WCW never been there, WWE would have atrophied and would have gotten smaller and smaller and smaller and eventually would have been gone. The reason WWE became so popular, not only during the Monday Night Wars, but afterwards and the reason why WWE has been able to attract massive licensing fees that they are attracting for their television product right now, is because of the success that was created by WCW and WWE in the late ‘90s and the early 2000’s.
Had it not been for the Monday Night Wars, had it not been for the level of success that WWE eventually was able to achieve as a result of the Monday Night Wars, WWE would not be around today. I’m convinced of that. By the way, I’ve had people within WWE say the same thing.”
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