10 Times WWE Made MASSIVE Changes That You Didn’t Even See
9. Eric Bischoff's 2019 Return And Exit
Eric Bischoff's surprising return to the company in 2019 was extremely well-publicised online as the company looked to generate excitement from the gossipy quality of the story, but 'Easy E' only made a single on-screen appearance and didn't last long enough to leave a legacy with the company second time around.
It has now emerged as to why that was. As Bischoff himself put it during a recent interview with TalkSport , (h/t to WhatCulture.com's Adrian Bishop):
My job really, as it was described to me, was to, in a general sense, oversee anything within WWE, and to a degree with FOX, anything that touched or related to SmackDown. Which included, by the way, overseeing creative – that was a part of it. But, it was overseeing it, not creating. I was told clearly I wasn’t brought in as a creative person, I was brought in to manage the creative process. They are two entirely different things. What I underestimated was just how difficult that adaptation would be for anybody that is good at adapting. It takes time. And I didn’t manage that well. My lack of performance, if you will, in terms of not fulfilling the role in the way that Vince McMahon saw it, that was on me. That wasn’t on WWE. It wasn’t because of any one person or group of people."
Rumours of time well spent at catering during his time there were still worth it for the patter, even if it's since become clear Bischoff struggled with more than just finishing his dinner. Vince McMahon had given him one of the biggest roles in the company - the wrestling billionaire made a perplexing choice of manager for his billion dollar wrestling brand.