In an interview with James Romero of Wrestling Shoot Interviews, Eric Bischoff discussed several topics, including WCW failing, incorrect speculation on the demise of the company and more.

“I get called to a meeting, and I show up in that meeting and there are 12-14 people sitting around a long conference table, only 2 or 3 of them I even recognized, we got down to the end of the table and this guy, his name was Joe, he was the President of Turner Ad Sales, he sat there and he said, you need to start producing your show for children and families.

Just like I forced WWF to stop doing it, because while they were doing that and I was doing what I was doing, I was kicking their a** financially, ratings-wise, in everything, and now I have somebody who’s in charge of Ad Sales for Turner Broadcasting telling me that I have to abandon the very formula that got us to the dance and put us in the number one position on television.

I left that meeting and I went home and I told my wife, I said I’m going to quit, I’m going to resign, this is f***ed up and all this by the way is a result of the AOL Time Warner merger, so I was ready to resign, but it kind of goes against my nature, and I was still very loyal to Ted. I’m thinking, who are these jackasses who don’t know anything about my business, or the industry in general, or the audience that comes with it, they’re telling me waht I should be doing with my business, I’m going to go to Ted.

Well, little did I know that as a result of that merger, Ted didn’t have any more power than I did and these people were all, this was a little bit of a palace coup and if you read Ted Turner’s book, I can’t remember the name of it, but there’s a book that Ted Turner wrote that talks about this period of time, so I’m thinking, these jackasses, they’re just going to be another speed bump in my way, I’m going to go to Ted, I’m going to make this all go away, but the problem is, I never got to get to Ted.

If I would’ve known that Ted wasn’t there and Ted no longer had control, I would have absolutely would’ve resigned, because it made no sense, so when people talk about, oh the reason WCW failed is because of The Finger Poke of Doom, or the reason WCW failed is because Sting should’ve beat Hulk Hogan and there shouldn’t have been a false finish, it’s like if f***ing people are like children, you know nothing about the business side of the business, because they weren’t in those meetings, they weren’t exposed to the things that I was exposed to at a very, very high corporate level, they weren’t there in 1998 when my budget that had already been approved in 1997 was cut in that, they weren’t there, they didn’t understand.”

The full interview is available at this link.