Eric Bischoff Shoots On Booking Bret Hart In WCW

Eric Bischoff talks about his experience with Bret from a few years ago. He had previously said negative things about Bret, but then decided to approach him and have a conversation expressing that he wouldn't talk negatively about him anymore. From then on, he's tried to be respectful and positive when discussing Brett. Eric acknowledges that there were situations that happened in the past that he couldn't control, but he can control how he looks back on them and moves forward.

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[leechamberlain]

Classy Eric. As a Bret fan, appreciate that. Great show as always and glad you’ve recovered from your recent scare 👏

[kellyremple]

The only thing I will say about this is one point.... For anyone who listened to Eric's podcast with Conrad called "Bret Hart in WCW" (back when Eric started his podcasts) it was embarrassing for Eric Bischoff to time after time get his facts completely wrong about Bret. Honestly, ANYONE in Bret Hart's shoes who was paid a fortune to come to WCW red f***ing hot, and given NO plan, and then years later have Eric challenge every comment read in his book, no wonder Bret thinks he is an idiot. He doesn't remember making Bret an offer in 1996? He doesn't recall paying him that much? Bret had too many kicks to the head? Bret Hart was "boring as fuck".... So then why did you pay him.more than Flair, Sting, and Lex combined if you think he is boring?

You can't make this stuff up.

[octoman_games]

Bret Hart "The Man, The individual" did just fine, it's Bret "The Hitman" Hart that got killed. Bret "The Hitman" Hart was finished the day he took that vacation in '96 after losing to Shawn @ XII.

[mattheweubanks]

We never got that dream El Dandy vs Bret Hart match

[TheRealClintEkert]

Well Said Eric! Brett was solid despite his imperfections. Better times then then now. Gotta be positive moving forward though! 83!

[kazman_]

This clip should have taken two seconds.

Fake Conrad: "Chelsea from Milwaukee wants to know what were the plans for Bret"

Eric: "No plans"

Next.

[lifrjlb]

Fair enough Eric. You dropped the ball on Bret, but through your excellent production we had lots of other great memories of some of the most exciting tv produced in the 90s.

[Ewe-ptjw]

Eric didn’t drop the ball on Bret. It was Hogan that wanted to take the ball away from Eric. Which is the real story.

[andrewmoore]

Booking courtesy of "That doesn't work for me, brother."

[towmater]

I don't understand how you didn't know how to use Bret because he use to try to work with guys he felt were good and you had a very talented roster .

[meekcheeks]

Fair play to Eric here. Bret would do the same. He's buried the hachet with Ric Flair, Shawn etc so im sure they can remain positive about each other going forward. Hope Bret has the same train of thought

[cesareborgia]

As a fellow Detroiter...I understand what Eric means it's respect but I gone celebrate the nigga

[DavidDexterMusic]

Good to hear as Bret is the best wrestler that ever lived.

[christhornycroft]

It's pretty bad when Vince Russo, the biggest embarrassment to professional wrestling, knew what to do with Bret Hart and Eric Bischoff didn't. Bischoff did a lot of good things, but he had a guy coming off his best run ever in 1997 as a heel, and a master of wrestling psychology in his prime fall into his lap and didn't know what to do with him, because he didn't play an over the top character. Some promoters are better in some areas than others. Eric did a great job building the midcard and cruiserweight division (before he ignored them and ran the NWO storyline into the ground). But he didn't know what to do with arguably the most popular single wrestler in the business at the time. That's like buying a highly successful restaurant and immediately changing everything without understanding what make the restaurant successful in the first place. To be fair, it wouldn't have mattered once Ted Turner lost control. Even if WCW was still at 1996 to early 1998 levels, the new parent company still would have shut it down.

[garrenluce]

Dang re watching nitro 97-98 holy crap Brett was awesome I didn't give him enough credit 💳

[jonpike]

It just was simply not to be. It's that simple. It happens in life. Shit just doesn't go right sometimes

[babayagaslobbedaknobba]

If they had been able to use Bret Hart as an ultimate Babyface to take in the NWO, it could've been epic. It could've been similar to the feud that Steve Austin had with The Hart Foundation. It actually could've been better.

[matthewbyard]

Ok we just recycling the greatest hits at this point.

[CalvinTennessee]

this is so old. Why do y’all re-share old shit.

[KimoKapaku]

Bischoff was a hit & miss exec who really did not have the experience or history of wrestling to make WCW last. I never understand why execs get so full of themselves thinking they can run the day to day operations instead of hiring top notch talent with proven track records to do the job. Instead they have to be megalomaniacs and believe they can do other people's jobs better despite having no experience. SMH