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 eight of the exclusive five-hour "Torch Talk" with former WCW President Eric Bischoff from before Bischoff joined TNA and was in the middle of negotiations with TNA at the time. Part 8 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 first question and answer from Part 8. Tune in tomorrow for the next series of Q&A's from the Eric Bischoff Torch Talk.

Wade Keller: Do you think he (Jerry Jarrett) meddled in a destructive way the possibility of you ending up buying WCW? Do you think had he not been involved in his side of the game...

Eric Bischoff: ... No, no, no. Believe me. He had actually called me and wanted to try to do something together. I don't remember the gentleman's name who called me, but it was a financier or somebody that Jerry had worked with in construction who actually called me and wondered if there was something that we could do together. Jerry Jarrett would have never been able to come anywhere near the kind of sophisticated business plan and relationships that would have been necessary to take a run at WCW. They listened to him. They took a pitch. But they would have taken a pitch from you, too. It doesn't mean that you would have been able to actually put a deal together to do it.

Keller: From a marketplace position, are you surprised that TNA's around today? That they lasted seven years?

Bischoff: No, no I'm not. I'm not surprised that they're around from a marketing position because there's only one product out there and people like competition and people like variety and people are looking for an alternative—and wrestling works. It works for a lot of different reasons. So I'm not surprised from a marketing position that they're around. I am surprised, but yet impressed that they've been able to endure the financial challenges that they have because it's not easy getting to the point where they've quite honestly gotten to. I mean, they're on prime time on Spike television. The television business is a tough, tough, tough business right now. And the fact that they just signed a new three-year agreement that I read about a couple weeks ago—if it's true—I think is a testimony to long–term planning, long–term commitment, and the financial support it's going to take to make that happen. That actually surprises me.

MORE TO COME TOMORROW WITH ERIC BISCHOFF TALKING MORE TNA SUBJECTS...

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