Eric Bischoff UNTOLD Plans For Scrapped WCW Revamp!

Could Bischoff have saved WCW? Let us know in the comments below!

I'm of two mindsets about. On one hand I remember how much the success of the nWo was cause it was new and fresh and exciting. And that creating this "Big Bang" and relaunching WCW could have been used like the nWo but company-wide as something new and fresh. On the other hand, I keep thinking that if WCW had just returned to basics(which they never did) and give the fans what they liked during their biggest moment, it would been a steady return to success. The wildness of 99-00 chased away a lot of fans and going back to familar roots could have worked. Like return to the old WCW Nitro set. Bring back the same PBP guys like of Tony-Heenan-Tenay-Larry. The return Cruiserweight divison by bringing new young guys in it(AJ Styles). You could have the three original nWo guys along with Bischoff being Evil authority figures. You could have a fresh new Four Horsemen group with Flair as manager. Return of silent enigmatic Sting, etc...

As a hardcore WCW fan, I wish this would've happened. A total rebranding and reset for WCW. It also would've been really cool to have the home base for them be Las Vegas. I feel like that would've made it seem like a much bigger deal immediately.

Bischoff being sent away the first time might've been the death knell for the company. The ship was already sinking by then, even if the Time Warner merger had never happened, it was doomed at that point David Arquette & Vince Russo were becoming WORLD CHAMPIONS!?? The talent, and even the creative (!) were booking themselves to go over for pity's sake. Everyone in business for themselves, when the opposition were operating on the same page. WCW might've still been in the fight if it weren't for the number of singular egos preventing them from functioning cohesively

So strange, that Eric talked about pushing younger talent, when Eric talked about doing that on Off The Record with the Giant, Rey Mysterio Jr, Eddie Guerrero, Dean Malenko, DDP, Jericho, and Benoit. If Eric would have taken his own advice, WCW might have been in a different position.

The biggest plan was for Eric and Hulk to finally tie the knot.

I'm not biased towards any wrestling federation, only started watching wrestling in the 2010's an am not American. So bearing that in mind I love listening to Bischoff. He has given so many interviews and I think we can learn a lot from his storytelling and experience. He comes off as a very intelligent man who knows what to say, when to say it and what to leave out or when to keep his silence. He looks absolutely incredible for his age too.

one thing i never understood in wcw or wwf was going with an upset occasionally to build a new star, rebuild an old one, get some excitement behind tthe upset factor. yes wwf did it a bit with barry horowitz, but come on that was more to punish hhh than push horowitz. they put horowitz over skip to build to hhh getting upset. i don't think they should every year but royal rumble would be a perfect opportunity. use the months between there and mania to build the story, gauge how fans are reacting, not maybe put the belt on the upset guy, but at least let him have a good hard competitive match where any second he might pull the upset again then if you want him to lose do it. this does wo things. it builds a charcter, get's the fans talking the will he won't he stuff. if the fans are behind it u build witht the guy to see what can be done. if the fans crap on it, move on. you don't have to do this every year for the rumble, but it'd add another element to it becuase then they talk about who could be the upset winner tihs year. maybe in this day and time with no kayfabe and such maybe harder to pul off but in some respects could be easier. more feed back through facebook, twitter, etc. so let's look at wcw. assuming they had something like the rumble, or using the 60 man battle royal. the 60 man would have been perect. you keep a guy in each ring till they get to the final 10. then maybe they team up on the knowing full good an dwell that is probably their only shot, then settle it amongst themselves. maybe do 5 split it down the middle upsets and guys everybody expects to win. you're going to allow the upset, you do the 5 upset guys teaming up. you have the usual suspect for the winner you have him eliminate the upset winner guy last. even being the last one out still builds him see waht the fans think. in the rumble you always seem to have a final four or 5 that kind of set it up if a final 4 do the same thing. i guess the other issue is egos and money but if done right it could work.

WCW actually had a lot of great young talent on the roster towards the end. I think they even had a young AJ Styles. If they could have rebranded themselves and focused on building that next generation it honestly might have worked. The problem would have been that WWE roster around that timeframe was so stacked. WCW could have done everything right and they’d still have gotten curb stomped by the WWE. They’d need to have moved completely away from Raw and Smackdown and not even attempt to compete.

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Bischoff would have kept WCW alive. It would still exist today as a separate entity. Some years it would have beaten WWE and some years it would lose. Just like any other industry. Would WCW have always been great? No. But neither is WWE.

I just finished Vice's Who Killed WCW and now this came out 😅

Bischoff never would have pushed new talent. Hogan et al would politic their way to keep at the top, especially with creative control, and Bischoff would appease.

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this guy almost killed TNA with Hogan

Sad we never got to see how the vision would have played out

I liked the Kanyon, ddp, Raven, Saturn saga because the matches delivered, even more so then some of the matches i watched in 2024 in WWE, because they felt innovative and fresh, everything is derivative and built on fake acrobatics nowdays. It was fake back then too, but felt like the guys were more into their character then today.

hmm flip the script? On the last episode of Nitro. The nWo I guess it would be 2000 at that point the Nash, Hart, Jarrett led nWo takes over WCW and leaves on a cliffhanger of "What happens next!" and WCW goes away 'for good' and the Las Vegas re-launched show is an nWo show but the scrappy remnants of WCW are showing up in the crowd and backstage and outside beating up the nWo guys and trying to get their show back.

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They lost all their top younger talent: X-pac, The Giant, Jericho, Benoit, Guerrero. Bret should've been the veteran to make the up and coming talent but he was forced to retire. Just like how they lost their top younger talent in the early 90s: HHH, Austin, Foley, Goldust, Johnny B Badd, Vader. It was inevitable for guys like Booker, Steiner, Hogan, Hall, Nash, Mysterio, Goldberg,Flair would go back to WWE. The only younger guys back then who had potential who were still on the roster was AJ Styles and Sean O'Haire.