“Eric had absolutely no vision, and once we were headed into FOX, everything was falling through the cracks,” said one WWE official. “He messed up multiple times with FOX. Eric also had no stamina for the rigors of the job.”
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The stamina for the job was going to do be a problem for almost everyone. Bischoff, 64, was in a company where it is not unusual for Vince McMahon’s creative meetings to start hours late and often last until 3 a.m., and sometimes later. Bischoff would work a full day, go out to dinner with his wife, and people would complain that after 7 p.m., on certain days, he would become impossible to reach. The reality is the hours and demands were going to be difficult for almost anyone at any age. The other reality is that Bischoff’s success with WCW, which was actually relatively short-lived, was largely due to people like Hulk Hogan and Zane Bresloff, who were not there for him this time, and Hogan was in TNA and that period didn’t go well either. And both were there for him in WCW, and that place eventually went down the tubes due to the company running off its fans at record-setting levels.
Bischoff was unfamiliar with the talent and many of the business changes when he arrived. In very short order, it had become more how the company would make the inevitable move and handle it publicly after pushing so strong to investors about the value of the hiring. When Ryan Ward burned out as the head writer of Smackdown, and Ed Koskey from Raw was moved over, a lot of people expected Bischoff to be the next casualty.
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