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 five of the exclusive five-hour "Torch Talk" with former WCW President Eric Bischoff. Part 5 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 last question and answer from Part 5. Tune in tomorrow for the next series of Q&A's from the Eric Bischoff Torch Talk.

Wade Keller: The NWO, too, expanded so much that... to be a Super Bowl champion and have a Super Bowl ring really means something. If the top half of all teams in the league, any team with a 9-7 record or better got a Super Bowl ring, all of a sudden wearing a ring doesn't mean as much. The NWO expanded so much that being a member, wearing a t-shirt that said NWO, wasn't Hall, Nash, Hogan, X-Pac cool anymore. It was a lot of guys, some of whom aren't around anymore. Do you think expanding the NWO was a mistake to the degree that it was expanded, or was that part of a larger strategy that just never quite came to fruition, which was a separate show and a separate brand and you were kind of going that direction?

Eric Bischoff: Well, the answer is both. As we talked about in the previous interview, that was the original concept, to build the NWO up enough so that we could have a competition between our own organization much like Raw and Smackdown theoretically do, but they really don't. That was the original goal. And that was the original reason for expanding it the way we did. But, to your point, it came at a price because it diluted the strength of the brand.

MORE TO COME TOMORROW WITH THE FINAL INSTALLMENT OF PART 5 TALKING THE NWO...

CLICK HERE FOR THE MOST RECENT BISCHOFF Q&A SNIPPET FROM PART 5

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