Eric Bischoff reveals the outrageous WCW storyline that he wasn’t allowed to put on TV

EXCLUSIVE: Eric Bischoff came up with an idea so insane that Ted Turner wouldn’t let him do it.

During his time at WCW, the legend revolutionized the sport of wrestling with his incredible creativity, but on one occasion, he wanted to push the boundaries further than anyone ever had before.

Eric Bischoff wanted to fake his own death

Eric Bischoff is undoubtedly one of the greatest minds to have ever entered the wrestling business.

His success at WCW was nothing short of sensational, with the American keeping audiences on the edge of their seats with his dramatic ideas.

Alas, while most of his concepts made it to air, there was one storyline we never got the opportunity to see play out on screen.

In an exclusive interview with Sporf, via Heart Bingo, Bischoff said: “The craziest idea I came up with that you didn’t get to see was where I was going to fake my own death in a plane crash. I was a private pilot at the time, and I had my own plane, and people knew I’d fly myself to shows and fly myself around the country from time to time. So, I devised this storyline where I was down in Arizona, and somehow ended up over Mexico, and flew out of US airspace and into Mexican airspace, and they lost me on radar, my plane was found three or four days later, and I was presumed dead. Then, I was going to come back to life as my ghost at Halloween Havoc. That would’ve been awesome, but Ted Turner wouldn’t let me do it.”

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Eric Bischoff got powerbombed by Kevin Nash

While we didn’t get to witness Bischoff hitting our screens as a ghost, we did have the privilege of watching Kevin Nash destroy him with an almighty powerbomb as part of the ‘Outsiders’ storyline, in a moment that changed the landscape of the business.

The 70-year-old reminisced: “It was breaking the paradigm. It was fun, I’ve always been a pretty physical person, I like contact, I’m fairly durable, so I like the idea of doing something nobody had ever done before, that was part of what made Nitro so successful is that we did things that nobody had ever really done before, from putting on main event quality matches on free TV, which everybody set themselves on fire over that, they thought it was going to be the end of the wrestling business, but now you see it all the time.

“We did a lot of things that had never been done before, and the announcer taking a big bump like that was certainly one of them, and it got a lot of attention. For me personally, it was fun. I’m a little bit of an adrenaline junkie. I like the feeling of excitement and danger with a little fear mixed in, just kind of makes life more interesting, and I certainly got all of the above going in that powerbomb. It got done, I went to the back, had a cold beer, high-fived everyone — it was easy.”

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