Eric Bischoff recently appeared as a guest on the SHAK Wrestling podcast for an in-depth interview.
During the discussion, the former WCW and WWE executive spoke about his thoughts on Triple H taking over behind-the-scenes in WWE, and how he feels that will affect the company going forward.
Featured below is an excerpt from the interview where he touches on this topic with his thoughts.
“I’m extremely enthusiastic and somewhat prescient at the same time because while I was hoping that those things would happen, they have happened, right? To a noticeable degree over a relatively short period of time…but Paul has already made it clear publicly that he’s going to let talent have a little more freedom and be less rigid in the stick to the script, word for word, comma by comma approach that has been pretty much the norm for the last 10, 15 years. That in itself is kind of exciting because you’re going to have talent that are going to bumble. They’re going to stumble, they’re going to trip over a word.
“Guess what? That feels gritty. That feels a little more real. That’s live TV. I’m looking at some of the episodic elements of the most recent formats where a story starts out early on in the show and then threads itself through. It’s sort of a three-act structure, which I’ve been begging for the last seven years. We’re seeing a three-act structure within a three-hour show. Imagine that. Episodic storytelling. It’s that kind of discipline to detail in story and format — because you can’t have a good story if you don’t have a good format and vice versa — That kind of commitment to discipline and format and structures, I think going to create a lot better television and it’s already happening.”
Check out the complete interview below. H/T to WrestlingHeadlines.com for transcribing the above quotes.
