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. Part 4(b) 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(b). Tune in tomorrow for the next series of Q&A's from part 4.

Wade Keller: I want to hit a few similar subjects we covered last time, but do follow-ups or cover areas we didn't get. One of them that I thought about is when we were talking about your stint in WWE as an on-air performer, you had said you made it real clear to Vince McMahon you didn't want to work in creative, you didn't want to move to Connecticut, that type of thing. Would you have entertained an offer to become an announcer? Because that was one of the things that really set Nitro apart in the beginning as an alternate to WWE was your brash announcing. I think a lot of people could have imagined you hosting Smackdown and taking shots at Raw and being kind of an announcing character instead of just a G.M.

Eric Bischoff: Ahh, the idea never occurred to me and no one ever suggested it, so I can't say whether I would have or wouldn't have entertained the idea. Looking back at it now, probably not. Knowing what I know now (laughs) and the process of the production as it relates to announcers...

Keller: The headset interference?

Bischoff: Yeah, I wouldn't work very well being directed behind the scenes in that sense. So the answer is no one suggested it, I never considered it, but knowing what I know now, I'm really glad. I mean, I may have said, "Sure, why not?" and given it a try and been miserable in the process.

Keller: I think you're probably right. I think Vince would have had a different idea of what being brash and anti-Raw and pro-Smackdown would have been if they were trying to do brand differentiation.

Bischoff: There's not a lot of creative freedom in that company. As I've suggested earlier, and again this isn't being critical because he has a billion dollar market cap and I don't, so more power to him, but for me to have passion and emotion and to engage for me personally, I have to have the creative freedom to really do a good job. I don't have the talent or the type of talent it would take to have someone screaming direction in my ear and take those directions and instantaneously make it sound like it's me.

Keller: I would actually say some people don't succeed at making it sound like it's them. I mean, you can tell when there's a pause and then Michale Cole or another color commentator says something that sounds exactly like Vince McMahon. It's like what you were saying about how you could watch a promo or a pre-tape and know who produced it, who wrote it, because the personality of someone else comes through.

Bischoff: Exactly.

MORE TO COME TOMORROW WITH THE NEXT PART OF THE SERIES...

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