Cornette on Bischoff Dead on the money

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Traditionally, a guy who "draws money" means a guy who, when you have put him in main events or important programs, sells more tickets (or PPV buys these days) than other people who have been in a same/similar spot, and has done this not just once or twice but on a consistent basis. There used to be dozens and dozens of top guys who "drew money" in the territory days. Now, there are a few, and they ARE all in WWE. The problem is, as Bischoff either doesn't want to admit or is too clueless to know, is that the way people like him have changed the business is the reason, not lack of talent on the young guy's parts.

To truly have guys in the business who "draw money" again, we would have to pitch out the dreck like Bischoff and others who don't respect or understand wrestling, who think they are Emmy award winning "real" TV producers, ditch the comedy writers like Russo and Stephanie McMahon's comic reading college kids, and push wrestlers who win, lose and chase championships. People will watch what wrestling is now on TV for free, and a few hundred thousand might buy the pPV's, but ticket sales for wrestling will NEVER approach what they once were without taking those steps.
That is why all the guys today who are actually draws, who sell live event tickets and PPV's in big numbers, almost all work for Dana White, the most successful pro wrestling promoter in the world. He just calls it UFC. Bischoff sees no similarity bewtween MMA/UFC and pro wrestling, which is why he is doomed to be a guy that was successful for 2 years out of a 20 year career. BTW, what other executive in any company actively dislikes, disagrees with, ignores and insults the 10% of people who are most dedicated to/spend the most money on their product or service?
This is just my offhand impression of this nitwit's comments, but I think you're wasting time trying to quiz Eric Bischoff on anything other than a good hair dye, a nice tanbed, a well-fitting set of dentures and the current price of a 3 way at the Gold Club. Feel free to repost any/all of this if you want.

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[Izzy]

Oh Cornette always knows what's being done wrong but never seems to get it right himself

Suddenly Bischoff is clueless when he nearly put WWF out of buisness and helped create the most succesful angle in wrestling

I think the problem is no one currently in TNA or WWE understands what makes a good show - they just understand what makes a show THEY want to see

Summerslam was idiotic in it's booking but TNA had Abyss murder RVD without even getting fined...

[slashsfro]

Oh Cornette always knows what's being done wrong but never seems to get it right himself

Suddenly Bischoff is clueless when he nearly put WWF out of buisness and helped create the most succesful angle in wrestling

I think the problem is no one currently in TNA or WWE understands what makes a good show - they just understand what makes a show THEY want to see

Summerslam was idiotic in it's booking but TNA had Abyss murder RVD without even getting fined...

Pretty much spot on especially the last two sentences.  TNA actually has the problem of too many wrestlers/factions around now.  You have Fortune, Ev 2.0, Hogan/Nash/Jarrett/Sting whatever group,  the rest of the TNA roster probably forming a faction too.  That's a lot of names to keep track of.  I just keep thinking about whether or not they could have set forth this storyline without blowing off an entire PPV to do it.

[Hammy]

I think Heyman summed it up best in an interview recently, too many people in creative trying to please each other, you need one mind, one idea to drive it all.