On September 14 and October 1, 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 Nine (9) of the exclusive five-hour "Torch Talk" with former WCW President Eric Bischoff from October 1 - before Bischoff joined TNA and was just starting negotiations with TNA at the time. Part 9 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 9. Tune in tomorrow for the next series of Q&A's in Part 9 from the Eric Bischoff Torch Talk.

Wade Keller: That's what ECW wanted to portray (embracing the characters and performers in a wrestling show) when they got on pay-per-view.

Eric Bischoff: But that was before UFC had basically taken over cable television and pay-per-view. You could do it back then, you can't do it now.

Keller: I think within the confines of the wrestling show, just as when you watch a movie, you don't want actors breaking character. You don't want microphones dangling in front of the camera or backstage scenes of the director telling the actor what to do in the next scene. Sometimes people take it too far and think you're insulting the audience by presenting the product with a straight face throughout the one or two hours you're on.

Bischoff: You'd be taking them out of the moment. You don't want to break character and take them out of the moment. Instead of comparing the UFC and wrestling, just look at movies. I sometimes cry watching Disney movies, okay? It's because if the story is right, and the acting is right, and you don't take me out of the moment, I forget that I'm watching something that's not real. My emotions all of a sudden react accordingly. And you can put on professional wrestling, sports entertainment, whatever it is they call it nowadays, you can produce this product and put it out there and embrace it for what it is without taking the audience out of the moment. I would go so far as to say that's what's lacking, is the ability - again, it'll sound like I'm putting myself over - but it's the reason the NWO worked because there was enough real story there and it was believable enough that the audience allowed themselves to forget that it was pretend. But when the story isn't there and the characters aren't there, I don't give a damn what you do in the ring, the audience isn't going to forget that it's not real. They may watch it, but you're not sucking them in, which means they're not really buying a pay-per-view and they're not going to buy a ticket. But if you suck them in and they believe - I'm not telling you something you don't know. Everybody knows it, but there's a difference between writing about it and knowing it and actually being able to do it. And that's what missing right now. There's nothing that makes the audience go, "Uh, I've gotta watch that again," because it's so real, it's so believable, you don't care if it's different than the UFC.

MORE TO COME TOMORROW WITH THE NEXT INSTALLMENT OF BISCHOFF'S TORCH TALK...

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