10 Wrestling Facts We Didn't Know Last Week (Jan 3)
10. Darius Rucker Publicly Admonished Eric Bischoff
First, the Blowfish blows hard.
Back in the late-90s, Ric Flair and Eric Bischoff put real-life animosity to one side, turned it into an angle and agreed to work together. The storyline they constructed was hot, so hot in fact that some high profile fans took things a bit too seriously. Darius Rucker was one who was stomaching none of Bisch's sh*t.
On his '83 Weeks' pod, Eric recalled standing at a packed bar in North Carolina and being confronted by the irate Hootie & The Blowfish frontman. Rucker wanted to know why Bischoff was being such a d*ck to his idol Flair, and said he was sick and tired of the WCW chief throwing his power around so publicly.
Confused onlookers must've wondered what the confrontation was about, and a befuddled Bischoff didn't even know who the hell Rucker was. He'd already spotted the singer staring at him and (thinking he was some random punter) asked, "What? Do I owe you money or something?".