{"id":143559,"date":"2022-07-26T09:34:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T14:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=143559"},"modified":"2022-07-26T09:34:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T14:34:49","slug":"eric-bischoff-comments-on-vince-mcmahon-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/07\/26\/eric-bischoff-comments-on-vince-mcmahon-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Bischoff comments on Vince McMahon retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3410983495\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Former WCW President, Eric Bischoff, said that the announcement of Vince McMahon retiring from WWE was &#8220;shocking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On his 83 Weeks podcast, Bischoff commented in detail on the McMahon retirement and said that he was still processing the news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was shocking,\u201d Bischoff said on the show. \u201cI\u2019m still processing it. It\u2019s still hard for me to believe. I woke up this morning, and I saw an image on my social media and it was a picture of WWE Headquarters in Stamford. I thought, can you imagine what it\u2019s like walking into that building knowing you won\u2019t see Vince McMahon there ever again? At least not professionally as a leader?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be weird to walk down those halls and not anticipate his presence. It would be really weird. I try to place myself in the shoes of like Bruce, our buddy, and a lot of other people that I know that I\u2019m very familiar with and close to. Gonna be a weird day for them come Monday morning, man. Really weird.\u201d (h\/t to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wrestling Inc.<\/a> for transcription)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/07\/25\/wwe-announces-paul-leveque-is-in-charge-of-creative-stephanie-mcmahon-and-khan-officially-named-co-ceo\/\">McMahon announced his retirement<\/a> on Friday evening amid various reports of sexual misconduct and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/07\/25\/wwe-restating-multiple-financial-statments-14-6-million-in-unrecorded-payments-found-that-were-made-by-vince-mcmahon\/\">improper hush money<\/a> payments to WWE employees with whom he allegedly had affairs with.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Bischoff was the president of WCW during the famed Monday Night Wars between WCW Nitro and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WWE<\/a> Monday Night Raw.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH-UP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/07\/26\/triple-h-reportedly-holds-meeting-ahead-of-monday-night-raw\/\">Triple H reportedly holds meeting ahead of Monday Night Raw<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-2987428147\"><div id=\"pwtor-279957633\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Former WCW President, Eric Bischoff, said that the announcement of Vince McMahon retiring from WWE was &#8220;shocking.&#8221; On his 83 Weeks podcast, Bischoff commented in detail on the McMahon retirement and said that he was <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/07\/26\/eric-bischoff-comments-on-vince-mcmahon-retirement\/\" title=\"Eric Bischoff comments on Vince McMahon retirement\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":26983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[150,71],"class_list":["post-143559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe","tag-eric-bischoff","tag-wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2016\/07\/Bischoff_3x2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143560,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143559\/revisions\/143560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}