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On Monday, September 14, PWTorch editor Wade Keller interviewed former WCW President Eric Bischoff an exclusive multi-hour "Torch Talk" interview covering a variety of controversial subjects from the Monday Night War period, his days on WWE TV, his 2006 autobiography, and the "Rise & Fall of WCW" DVD.
The following is the latest installment of part four of the exclusive five-hour "Torch Talk" with former WCW President Eric Bischoff. This fourth part of the series picks up in the midst of a discussion about Bischoff's oft-criticized decision to put the first-ever Hulk Hogan vs. Goldberg match on free Nitro with just four day's notice. Part 4(a) of our daily Q&As will be published here at PWTorch.com, which is unprecedented with our VIP-exclusive "Torch Talk" series.
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We present today's latest question and answer from Part 4(a). Tune in tomorrow for the next series of Q&A's from part 4.
Wade Keller: Is there anything about how that was done (firing Sean Waltman) that you'd take back in terms of how you handled it, the FedEx note, Hall and Nash's reaction? Is there anything knowing what you know now that you would do differently?
Eric Bischoff: Nope. In the same circumstance, circumstances being exactly the same, I know how anybody would do it differently. Vince McMahon wouldn't do anything any differently. No network would have a deal - with a mid-level talent by the way - I'm not taking anything from Sean because I will also tell you that's probably one of the only reasons, in my opinion, that DX really worked out of the gate, because Sean was in it and it represented an extension of the Nitro philosophy and psychology and brand-mentality, if you will, which gave it a tremendous shot in the arm. Otherwise, you had Hunter who was milk toast then and he's milk toast now. You have Shawn Michaels, who at the time had that too-cool-for-school kind of character going on. But the rest of it was 'eh. But Sean gave it that razor sharp edge that it needed right out of the chute. To their credit, they built on it from there. I think Sean Waltman deserves a lot of credit for DX and arguably in the same breath I probably gave them one of the principle tools they used to really gain the upper hand. All of that being said and acknowledged, if somebody holds you up and goes against an agreement, I just don't know how you do business with people like that because where does it stop? Next week? Next month? Next six months? You just can't function that way.
