Pro wrestling legend Eric Bischoff shares 1 creative angle that failed to take off

Pro wrestling fable Eric Bischoff helped alteration the manufacture successful the 1990s, but determination was 1 storyline that didn’t walk the sniff test, overmuch to the erstwhile enforcement producer’s chagrin. 

Bischoff told Fox News Digital successful a caller interrogation determination was astatine slightest 1 storyline helium had pitched to a Turner Sports higher-up that didn’t spell implicit truthful well.

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The erstwhile World Championship Wrestling (WCW) president explained helium was a aviator and was certified to alert "high show analyzable aircraft" and got this chaotic thought successful 1998.

"I flew each implicit the country. I emotion flying, and determination was a constituent successful clip I was down successful Arizona for immoderate crushed and flying around, I thought, ‘Wow, wouldn’t it beryllium absorbing if I faked my ain death?’ Meaning, wouldn’t it beryllium absorbing if I, you know, fto it beryllium known that I was traveling astir confederate Arizona and checking retired immoderate of the sights and someway wandered disconnected into Mexican airspace and seemingly ran retired of state oregon thing and ended up crashing. They couldn’t find the level oregon me.

"I wanted to spell with that. This was similar a period oregon 2 earlier Halloween Havoc, and I was going to marque my ain decease successful a level clang and past look arsenic a shade of myself astatine Halloween Havoc successful Las Vegas. I was truthful excited astir it."

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Eric Bischoff speaks onstage astatine "The Roast of Ric Flair" astatine Nashville Fairgrounds connected July 29, 2022, successful Nashville, Tenn. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

Bischoff said helium made a abbreviated database of radical helium would archer that the clang space was each conscionable a portion of a storyline helium concocted, including his household members.

He said helium knew helium needed to archer Turner Sports that helium was readying this thought due to the fact that helium was the president of a publically traded company. So, Bischoff explained helium had a gathering with then-Turner Sports enforcement Harvey Schiller.

Bischoff explained that Schiller rarely, if ever, turned down immoderate of Bischoff’s ideas.

"I went to Harvey and I laid it retired to him, and helium wasn’t impressed," Bischoff told Fox News Digital. "He felt I was nuts. But it wouldn’t person worked. It wouldn’t person worked successful immoderate different business. But it would person worked successful wrestling.

"I had it truly well-thought-out. I privation I would person been capable to propulsion that 1 off, but it conscionable wasn’t successful the cards."

Years later, Bischoff finds himself backmost successful the originative spotlight.

Eric Bischoff was formerly the caput of World Championship Wrestling. (Major League Wrestling)

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He volition beryllium moving Major League Wrestling’s One Show pay-per-view connected Dec. 5. He told Fox News Digital helium volition donate his paycheck to the Tunnels to Tower Foundation.

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