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-Slam Wrestling did an recent interview with co-producer of Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Wrestling, Eric Bischoff. Bischoff talks about how he and Jason Hervey came up with the idea, how it came about chosing Hulk Hogan and more. Here are a few snippets from the interview:

Bischoff talks about how the show originated:

“We felt that we had a great idea to marry reality format with professional wrestling,” explained Bischoff, a co-creator and judge, over the phone from California. “Reality television is a proven model that’s been working for a long time and wrestling is also a proven model that has been working well for a long time, so we thought it would be a great idea to marry those two forms of entertainment, those two formats, and come up with something that would be different for the wrestling audience.
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Why Hulk Hogan?:

We never really got too serious about it honestly, because we knew that in order for it to work, we had to have the right personalities involved in it, and Hulk Hogan we knew would be the absolute best person for the project, but Hulk was tied up with Hogan Knows Best and had a lot of other commitments that made it impossible for him to really be involved.

“Then last year, when it became pretty obvious to all of us that Hulk was no longer going to continue with Hogan Knows Best, we brought up the idea, he got excited about it, so Hulk, Jason and I kind of sat down, tweaked the creative a little bit and came up with some great ideas for it, and cast the right people for it and off we went. So to make a long story short, about a year and a half in the making.”

Why Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake and Brian Knobbs?

Bischoff says:

“I’ve known Brian Knobbs since my first day in professional wrestling 20 years ago, and I’ve certainly worked a lot with Brutus, and it was important that Hulk was comfortable with the wrestling personalities that were involved in the show, so I think it was much driven by chemistry and familiarity and dependability as anything. But the truth is, once we got going, it became real obvious to us that Brian in particular, and Brutus to a large degree, were great characters for the show. We probably couldn’t have picked anybody better.”More on the interview on who, what, where, when and the why of Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Wrestling>>>>