{"id":354523,"date":"2026-06-22T06:15:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T00:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=354523"},"modified":"2026-06-22T06:15:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T00:45:27","slug":"eric-bischoff-wwe-is-not-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/eric-bischoff-wwe-is-not-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Bischoff – ‘WWE Is not Dying’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eric Bischoff thinks fans have to stop acting like WWE is falling apart simply because the corporate isn\u2019t matching the fever pitch it reached around WrestleMania season last yr.<\/p>\n

Speaking on a recent edition of his \u201c83 Weeks\u201d podcast, the previous WCW executive agreed that WWE was operating at an incredible level heading into WrestleMania, with several major stories helping drive interest. He said,<\/p>\n

\u201cDo I agree with you that we type of peaked out when it comes to enthusiasm, excitement, engagement \u2014 all things measurable \u2014 for last yr\u2019s WrestleMania? Absolutely. And also you have a look at all of the things leading as much as it over the couple of years leading as much as that, right? Including the controversy in WWE and the Janel Grant stuff and the TKO stuff and the merger and the acquisition \u2014 I mean, there\u2019s been quite a lot of drama and controversy that has created quite a lot of money and enthusiasm leading as much as last yr\u2019s WrestleMania.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd what has happened since then? Well, things have type of settled down. I mean, from an issue side of the equation, okay, Vince and Janel have agreed to fight their shit out privately in arbitration, in order that\u2019ll be out of the headlines. There\u2019s not going to be quite a lot of energy talking about that. Creatively, did we hit an apex for a time frame? Probably.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cGuys, you possibly can\u2019t stay at a ten fifty-two weeks a yr. In case you think you possibly can, you\u2019re delusional. You don\u2019t know. You don\u2019t understand. You’re certainly one of those folks that live in a room, in a bubble, that don\u2019t really understand anything outside that bubble. Nothing works that way.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe music business doesn\u2019t work that way. The movie business doesn\u2019t work that way. There\u2019s no type of entertainment that works that way. Sports doesn\u2019t work that way. So why do we expect wrestling goes to achieve an apex and maintain that apex indefinitely? And in the event that they don\u2019t, WWE goes into the sh** \u2014 \u2019Oh my gosh, the business is collapsing. This is frightening.\u2019 No, it\u2019s not. It\u2019s fu***** Darwin\u2019s theory of evolution for television.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I believe we are inclined to overanalyze and overreact to it because we would like engagement. And I\u2019m throwing myself into this bucket \u2014 we\u2019re doing it right away. And hopefully persons are finding what you and I are talking about as an interesting perspective on a difficulty that everyone else is talking about.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Throughout the same podcast, Bischoff revealed that he once received a proposal to buy the UFC for around $2.5 million. He said,<\/p>\n

\u201cYou return to the very starting of the UFC because I remember it distinctly. I remember getting a phone call one Friday night after I was out having a beer with my wife and the guy that owned or was in top management, I can\u2019t remember his name right away, called me and said, \u2018Hey, do you do you’ll you wish to buy the UFC for two.5 million?\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cNow, at the moment, UFC was they couldn\u2019t get into venues. There was states attempting to outlaw them. John McCain was, , pressuring, , attempting to keep the milk, whatever. It was a giant mess. And the business side of it was a multitude. So, I had no I mean, I used to be eager about the brand, but not eager about the acquisition because I didn\u2019t feel like there was anything that I could contribute to show anything around. It just was what it was. So, anyway, passed on that.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBut should you have a look at what Dana White did, the Fertittas coming in, they lost over $350 million on UFC before they made their first nickel. That\u2019s a commitment, a giant commitment.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd to see what Dana primarily with quite a lot of help has been capable of construct is just mind-boggling to me. Again, controversy aside, and I believe those two promoters, should you have a look at Dana White, and that\u2019s what they\u2019re businessmen. Calling them promoters is unfair. And to see what Dana\u2019s done, what Vince has done and constructing, , these televised sports like properties within the case of WWE, I\u2019m I\u2019m floored by it, particularly with Dana. It\u2019s amazing what they\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Eric Bischoff thinks fans have to stop acting like WWE is falling apart simply because the corporate isn\u2019t matching the fever pitch it reached around WrestleMania season last yr. Speaking on a recent edition of his \u201c83 Weeks\u201d podcast, the previous WCW executive agreed that WWE was operating at an incredible level heading into WrestleMania, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":354524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[21169,12447,1232,6299,6221],"class_list":["post-354523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-bischoff","tag-dying","tag-eric","tag-isnt","tag-wwe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354526,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354523\/revisions\/354526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}