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Originally Posted by Darwin Henderson
Bischoff is a karate world champion so I think he could beat Leno and Arquette. Rodman and Malone wern't too bad.
Sure, David Arquette got them a story in a newspaper but the rating is one of WCW's lowest ever and was WCWs biggest loss to the WWF. To say that it didn't affect the title is stupid, as it did and thats why the fans tuned off as a b-level actor was the world champion.
Leno was bad as Bischoff had to do that king of late night TV feud and spent up to 1/2 hour presenting a fake TV show during Nitro.
Plus you have to remember how much celebrities cost and how much time it takes for them to be introduced into storylines.
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It doesn't matter if Bischoff could beat them or not.Wrestling is a
work,and if it was really about who could beat who,1/2 of the top
guys wouldn't even be wrestling,never mind being stars.
The fans tuned off because Bischoff and Russo (and others) spent
more time arguing with each other and dealing with egos than they
did booking or doing anything that even resembled making sense...
Like you said,Bischoff did the stupid "King Of Latenight TV" angle,&
wasted TV time.Did he have to spend a 1/2 an hour on it? No. Did
he probably even care that he did? No. He was getting paid,he was
on TV,and to him,he ruled the world; that's all that mattered. Don't
think he cared about making WCW #1,he just wanted to **** Vince
and make himself look good.
The time it takes to introduce them isn't such a big deal.They cut
TV time for everything else (like above said stupid angles that go
nowhere - ie. who was driving the Hummer,etc..). As you said th-
ough,the money was the essential thing.
They WASTED money on celebs/musicians like Travis Tritt; Master
P; KISS; Mills Lane and others. If they didn't piss away all of that
on those people,they wouldn't have to worry about the other $$$;
and again,Eric didn't care because:
A - It wasn't his $$$
B - He wanted to do what he wanted to do....