10 Worst Ideas That Actual WRESTLERS Came Up With
7. The Ghost Of Eric Bischoff
Eric Bischoff was not unlike Tony Khan as a booker, in that he surveyed what was hot in the underground or missing from the wider wrestling landscape, and then integrated it in his WCW product.
NJPW Vs. UWF-i on top, ECW underneath, "real" characters antithetical to the WWF's occupational gimmicks across the roster: at its peak, the Nitro formula was incredible. Bischoff differs from Khan in that he only had one truly original idea - that being his bold and patient approach to the Sting character - and once he f*cked that up, WCW tumbled into self-parody, regurgitating somebody else's ideas until the audience stopped caring.
Bischoff did have one unique idea, but Harvey Schiller, then President of Turner Sports, said it wasn't happening. Which is just as well.
Bischoff per 83 Weeks wanted to fake his own death in a worked helicopter crash in Mexico, reasoning that it may take up to six months to verify that he had actually perished there. He would tell only his immediate family (and Warner higher-ups) of the plan. It was sure to work, too, because of the six months thing.
Except his plan was to turn up at Halloween Havoc as a ghost and haunt the babyfaces, which might have concluded the investigation Jesus Christ.
The brains behind "I can't fake die in America, people will know I'm not actually a ghost" thinks he's an expert storyteller.