7. Vince McMahon Declares Eric Bischoff The New RAW GM
The real life war between WCW and WWF was legendary in the late nineties, having appropriately enough been named The Monday Night War, as RAW and Nitro went head to head for ratings and the unofficial title of the most popular professional wrestling show on earth. For 84 weeks, Nitro had pounded RAW in the ratings, head man Bischoff using every imaginative dirty trick under the sun to get one over on McMahons WWF. Hed sign every WWF wrestler he could get his hands on, digging deep into Ted Turners deep pockets. Hed spoil the RAW results on his own show (RAW being taped and Nitro being live at that time). Everything Bischoff could do to bury WWF, he did including actually challenging McMahon to a match himself. When WWF won the Monday Night War decisively, putting WCW out of its misery by purchasing the dying promotion outright, Bischoff was already gone from the company. Nonetheless, everyone knew that at the height of the gamesmanship between the promotions, it had been McMahon versus Bischoff. So on July 15th, 2002, when Vince McMahon came to the ring to announce the new Monday Night RAW General Manager, no one expected it to be Eric Bischoff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMj8bM9cHnU Many saw this as a squandered opportunity to make real money out of the real life enmity between the two, but McMahon chose to flip the script on fans that night and no one saw it coming.
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