WWE Hall of Famer Eric Bischoff was the executive director of WWE Smackdown for more than a year. He was announced as the executive director of WWE SmackDown by WWE all June 2019. For a short amount of time, he did a nice job.
Friday night Smackdown is going through a terrible time period right now. After WrestleMania, they are failing to books good storylines, neither the creative team is being able to book every wrestler on the roster. Wrestlers like Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn, Baron corbin, Shinsuke Nakamura and many other big names remain unbooked in any storyline. Their main focus has remained the WWE Universal Championship pictures solely.
Eric Bischoff Explains His Biggest Challenges As The Executive Director Of SmackDown
About Monday Night Raw, the picture is slightly better than Friday Night Smackdown. At least they are trying to book every single wrestler available on the roster. Almost everyone is getting screen time in Raw right now. But still something remains missing.
Monday night RAW does not feel the same way it used to be felt on its previous days. There was a time when there were huge names constantly had non title feuds. And right now, main event stars are only seen having booking for World Championships only. This is a big reason why the main roster is falling in WWE.
The former Boss of the World Championship Wrestling and the WWE Hall of Famer Eric Bischoff recently appeared on 83 Week’s podcast where he told what is the biggest difficulty he faced while being the executive director of WWE SmackDown;
“The biggest challenge for me was everyone knew we were gonna split the roster. At some point, at the draft, we were going to have to publicly reveal what the roster was gonna be for each specific brand. That was hard because there was a lot of indecision back and forth every week. There would be a meeting every week.
“We would have a discussion, and every week, we would leave that meeting with a pretty good idea of where we were at. Then the following week, it would all change again. So, that was in constant flux. What made it a lot harder for me was the writing staff was also going to be split so that there would be dedicated writers for each show. Those decisions would change on a weekly basis, all the way up until [SmackDown on FOX] was launched.
“I still believe this to this day, but there is a much better process to be had in the way wrestling is produced across the board, not just in WWE. There is a much better way.
“There is a formula to everything, and my goal was to create that formula in WWE, at least the framework for it so ideas could go through a process that gave those ideas a much better chance of being successful than just, ‘Let’s just try this’ and then the day of go, ‘I changed my mind, I don’t like that.’ That’s not a process, that’s an experiment. The odds of a process being successful are much greater than the odds of an experiment being successful.”
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