The Sun UK got an interview with Celebrity Championship Wrestling creator Eric
Bischoff.
Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling starts in the UK on Bravo this Saturday (February 7) at 8pm.
Here are a few snippets from the interview:
I heard WWE boss Vince McMahon went mad when he saw the show, thinking it exposed too many secrets of the wrestling business. Do you think he has a point?
Not at all. I think the reason Vince McMahon got mad is because we put on a great show and it was a fresh idea. Vince was only disappointed that we got there first.
There are now rumours here in the States that he is going to launch a reality show much like CCW and bring celebrities in.
What was the thinking behind doing CCW? Surely you and Hulk could have made a lot of money by going to TNA or even going back to work for WWE?
Neither one of us were interested in TNA. It’s a small organisation that doesn’t have very much vision. The best way to describe it is like WWE-lite. There was nothing exciting there for Hulk or myself.
Although Dixie Carter is a nice woman, and I’m sure very intelligent, the rest of the people in senior management there are not the sort of people we would like to work with.
As far as doing something with WWE, in Hulk’s case, and to a degree in mine, it’s ‘been there and done that’.
We wanted to do something of our own, that we control and that we had never done before.
Have TNA approached you at all about working for them? What would be your advice to them if they want become a true challenger to the WWE like WCW was?
Sure they have.
But look, the people that are involved in the creative process and vision for TNA are people that couldn’t get a job in WWE or shouldn’t have had a job in WCW.
There’s no vision for that company.
They are people who have never been to the dance. They’ve never been a part, really, of any of the decision-making processes that led to the success of the industry.
Some of them happen to have been working there while other people did it, but have never really done it for themselves. They just don’t have the feel for it.
So that’s the reason we wouldn’t want to be there.
For me to sit down and say listen guys, this is what you have to do to be successful, would be like telling a three-year-old how to fly an aeroplane. You can try all you want, they’re never going to get it.
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