Eric Bischoff is no stranger to Vince McMahon. Bischoff competed with McMahon during the famous “Monday Night Wars,” and later worked for him between 2002 and 2007.
After Vince McMahon’s return to WWE was announced, many speculated that he would fill his previous role in creative. The position was taken over by his son-in-law Triple H following McMahon’s retirement.
However, Eric Bischoff believes that Vince McMahon will have other things on his mind.
Eric Bischoff Believes Vince McMahon Will Not Return To WWE Creative
On his podcast “83 Weeks,” Eric Bischoff spoke at length about Vince McMahon. He had the following to say about McMahon’s rumoured return to creative.
“I just can’t imagine that Vince’s primary focus right now is to jump back in the creative saddle. I mean there’s a ton on his plate, of a magnitude that I just don’t think even Vince McMahon, who notoriously works 20 hours a day, I think that would be a little bit much.”
“I think Vince is gonna be focused on stability, particularly outward-facing stability, which is why I think he went to great lengths to acknowledge Nick Khan and Stephanie and Paul Levesque in their roles and assure everybody, he did three times in one press release, or maybe in different comments, whatever, there were three different occasions that Vince made a point to say, ‘Hey, Paul and Nick and Stephanie are doing a great job. All the confidence in the world in them. Nothing is going to change.'”
“If that’s true, I think showing up at TV would be, even just from perception-wise, even if he just showed up and hung around backstage, it wouldn’t add to the stability of the situation right now. Couple weeks, maybe, once things settle down. But right now, I can’t see it.”
Vince McMahon’s name appears to be on everyone’s lips in professional wrestling this week, even being name-dropped by a popular AEW star at their Battle of the Belts event.
H/T Fightful