Pro wrestling legend Eric Bischoff helped transform the industry in the 1990s, but to the former executive producer's chagrin, there was one storyline that didn't pass the sniff test.
Bischoff told Fox News Digital in a recent interview that he had at least one story he pitched to Turner Sports executives, but it wasn't well received.
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Eric Bischoff (Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images/File for SiriusXM)
The former World Championship Wrestling (WCW) president explained that he is a pilot and is certified to fly “high performance composite aircraft” and came up with the wild idea in 1998.
“I was flying all over the country. I love airplanes, and for some reason there was a time when I was in Arizona flying around. I thought, 'Wow, wouldn't it be fun to fake my own death?' 'I mean, wouldn't it be funny if you found out that I was traveling through southern Arizona checking out some tourist spots and somehow ended up wandering into Mexican airspace and apparently running out of gas or something? Huh? Neither the plane nor I were found.
“I wanted to be on it. This was a month or two before Halloween Havoc. I was going to kill myself in a plane crash and show up as my ghost at Halloween Havoc in Las Vegas. I was going for it.'' I'm excited about it. ”
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Eric Bischoff speaks on stage at “The Roast of Ric Flair” at the Nashville Fairgrounds on July 29, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
Bischoff said he compiled a short list of people, including his family, who said the angle of the crash was all just part of a story he had concocted.
He said because he was president of a publicly traded company, he knew he needed to tell Turner Sports he was planning the idea. There, Bischoff explained, he met with Harvey Schiller, then an executive at Turner Sports.
Bischoff explained that Schiller rarely, if ever, rejected Bischoff's ideas.
“I went to Harvey and explained it to him and he wasn't impressed,” Bischoff told FOX News Digital. “He thought I was crazy. But it wouldn't have worked. It wouldn't have worked in any other business. But it would have worked in wrestling.
“It was a really thoughtful decision. I wish I could have done that, but it just wasn't in the cards.”
A few years later, Bischoff returned to the creative spotlight.
Eric Bischoff was previously the head of World Championship Wrestling. (Major League Wrestling)
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He is scheduled to run Major League Wrestling's One Show pay-per-view on December 5th. He told FOX News Digital that he will donate his salary to the Tunnels to Towers Foundation.
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