Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Eric Bischoff who is the former boss of WCW recently revealed his acquisition plans for WCW back in 2001 after the promotion was sold to Vince McMahon.
WCW was one of the biggest professional wrestling promotions throughout the 1990s. At a point it was the biggest of them all. It had the biggest names of professional wrestling in the time such as the likes of Hulk Hogan, Sting, Ric Flair, Kevin Nash, Bret Hart and many other big names.
Eric Bischoff Reveals His Acquisition Plans For WCW In 2001
Still, nothing worked out pretty well. Slowly the company went on towards its death. In spite of having a hardcore fan base, nothing could stop the promotion from its death.
In the mid and late 1990s, the Monday Night Wars between WCW and WWE was one of the most entertaining things to check out in the world of professional wrestling. It started with a huge lead of WCW since most of the big names during the time was all with them. WWE did not have much big names in their hand but they were in progress is to create some new big stars.
And this is the time when WWE address their time period as the Attitude Era when they created some of the biggest names in the history of professional wrestling, such as Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, Triple H, Kane, Mick Foley and more.
WCW may have a handful of readymade talents but it started to become difficult for them to compete with WWE and from 1999, the episode of Monday night RAW in which Mankind defeated The Rock to capture the WWE Championship, WCW could never beat WWE in the ratings.
The Ratings of WWE kept on going upper where is WCW failed to capture the ratings ever again and ultimately in 2001 the promotion announced it bankruptcy and it was none other than Vince McMahon who bought WCW. The former Boss of WCW Eric Bischoff attempted to recapture WCW but ultimately he failed.
Eric Bischoff who is the former boss of WCW recently spoke to CBS Sports’ Shakiel Mahjouri where he revealed his acquisition plans for WCW back in 2001 after the promotion was sold to Vince McMahon. He said;
“Hulk Hogan would have been involved. Bill Goldberg likely would have been involved. Sting, a lot of the top names that you were already familiar with at WCW.
“Not all of them, by the way, but most of them would have likely been involved. There is another group within that list that would have most likely have been involved. But to be honest, we didn’t really have much of a chance to formulate a creative strategy during the period of time that we were trying to acquire WCW. Most of our energy was focused on raising $67 million, which was the price tag at the time.”