Eric Bischoff Interview 31.12.2010
Posted by David Damage on Sunday, October 9, 2011
Under: Archive Interviews
Eric Bischoff was on Monday Night Mayhem, here are the highlights…
The changes he believes that himself & Hulk Hogan, both
individually & collectively, implemented effectively in TNA since
coming into the company one year ago: "If you look at TNA as a brand
& as a media property, I think that Hulk Hogan in particular, and to
a lesser extent myself, probably brought more media awareness &
industry awareness to the brand than anything they had done up to that
point. I think the residual effect of that brand awareness is still
playing itself out and is something that TNA is taking advantage of, and
it will probably continue to do so."
Why Spike TV decided to
cancel TNA Reaction, his reaction to the news, & when he found out
about the decision: "No it won't unfortunately. We found out toward the
second-to-last day of the TV tapings we had, and Spike had decided to
make a different programming decision and go in a different direction.
The Reaction you see on the 30th will be the last Reaction."
His reaction to Jim Ross' recent comments (on his BBQ Sauce Blog)
regarding TNA being able to compete with the WWE in 2011 & that TNA
will "never" overtake the WWE in the marketplace: "I agree 100%. WWE has
been around for a long, long time. They've been well-entrenched &
well-established in cable television for the last 20 years. It's a
television juggernaut. TNA comparatively is a Kool-Aid stand compared to
Coca-Cola in terms of its resources & infrastructure. The idea of
TNA ever being able to compete with the WWE, although I've been out
there, and I've been promoting it as such: I believe in a lot of ways we
do compete. There are a lot of things about TNA that are better than
the WWE on an individual basis. But you can't compare TNA as a company
to WWE as a company. In that regard, Jim Ross is absolutely 100% right
on the money. Doesn't mean we don't want to try. Doesn't mean we don't
wanna swing for the fences whenever we're given the opportunity. Doesn't
mean that we don't want to do things that put ourselves out in front of
the WWE audience, just like we did with the Monday night effort. That
was something that got people to sample us. It created awareness, and
that's important for us. I don't think anybody within TNA realistically
felt we were going to compete on a business level with the WWE."
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