{"id":74490,"date":"2019-01-31T16:20:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T22:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=74490"},"modified":"2019-01-31T16:22:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T22:22:52","slug":"interview-highlights-eric-bischoff-says-wwe-losing-dean-ambrose-makes-no-difference-and-explains-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/01\/31\/interview-highlights-eric-bischoff-says-wwe-losing-dean-ambrose-makes-no-difference-and-explains-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Highlights: Eric Bischoff says WWE losing Dean Ambrose makes no difference and explains why, what Jeff Jarrett is phenomenal at"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3035044363\" 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><em>The following article includes highlights of Eric Bischoff&#8217;s latest podcast talking about hot topics this week including Dean Ambrose leaving WWE and Jeff Jarrett returning to WWE. The following highlights were supplied to PWTorch.com by the show&#8217;s producers&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/DWVRexZj4zQ<\/p>\n<p>This week on the aftershow for his &#8220;83 Weeks&#8221; podcast, &#8220;After 83 Weeks with Christy Olson,&#8221;\u00a0Eric Bischoff responds to Dean Ambrose\u2019s upcoming WWE departure, declaring, \u201cI don\u2019t think it matters at all.\u201d The former WCW President explains how Vince McMahon\u00a0protects WWE from the loss of top stars, and what Jeff Jarrett will be bringing to the table with his recent signing. Excerpts are below\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<strong>Eric on Jeff Jarrett becoming a WWE producer\/agent: <\/strong>I\u2019ve worked with Jeff in a number of different capacities. As a talent, whatever. He\u2019s achieved whatever he\u2019s achieved. He was never that top guy, main event, big star. But he was a solid mid-card, upper mid-card performer throughout his career, which is, by the way, a hell of a lot. That shouldn\u2019t sound as uncomplimentary as it\u2019s intended to be&#8230; But when it comes to communicating a creative vision from a room full of writers and communicating that to talent in a way that the talent can understand, that\u2019s the key to a good producer. Jeff is phenomenal at that. One of the best I\u2019ve ever worked with. So I think he\u2019s in a perfect role for what truly is his real skill set.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022If Dean Ambrose leaving WWE is a big loss to the company:<\/strong> No disrespect at all to Dean Ambrose&#8230;I don\u2019t think it matters at all. That\u2019s not because of Dean\u2019s abilities or lack thereof. But in WWE right now WWE is the star. Everybody else on that roster is a costar, to one degree or another. Stars are now interchangeable. The roster is deep enough, and the pool of talent is deep enough that whether it\u2019s a situation like Roman Reigns, as devastating as that was, WWE shifted on the fly. They didn\u2019t even have to hit the clutch. They just kept going, right? I think that that\u2019s intentional.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022Why Vince McMahon made talent secondary:<\/strong> People\u2019s situations change. If you\u2019ve invested all of your resources, not just financial but all of your television time and all that real estate into building up a character, and through some scenario that you couldn\u2019t anticipate that character is no longer there, you\u2019re in a rebuild situation. That can be devastating. WWE has gone through that before. They learned that lesson. Vince McMahon learned what happened when competition comes along and takes your talent, and I think he endeavored to build a company that was for the most part impervious to that. 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