Eric Bischoff discusses his (lack of) involvement within the latest Netflix collection.
In September, Netflix launched a docuseries, titled Mr. McMahon, overlaying the profession of former WWE CEO Vince McMahon. Of the collection’ six components, former WCW President and WWE govt Eric Bischoff appeared in 5 of them, recounting his first-hand experiences with McMahon each as a competitor and as a colleague.
Whereas talking with Justin Barrasso of Undisputed, Bischoff revealed that his participation within the collection got here as a shock, as no Mr. McMahon representatives had met with him. Bischoff additionally famous that he by no means sat down for an interview of any type, and he was unaware of older interviews probably showing within the collection.
“They by no means requested me to be a part of that Netflix manufacturing,” Bischoff mentioned. “They by no means referred to as and requested. Inside their authentic settlement with WWE, Netflix had entry to all types of different footage. A few of that was entry to footage I did from different merchandise. What we noticed on that Vince collection was from an interview I did on the NWO, which was content material that dovetailed proper into the content material they needed to create.
“I didn’t receives a commission a dime, nobody referred to as to say, ‘Do you thoughts if we do that?’, and nobody ever referred to as to say thanks. However I’m not indignant about it. I’m grateful, and I’m actually blissful they did it. Loads of good has come out of it. They should have felt like what that they had match completely. So I’m not b*tching. Like I mentioned, I’m grateful for it.”
