10 Wrestling Images That Meant So Much More In Hindsight

3. 'Easy E'

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It's a shame WCW only remained on top of the wrestling world for two years, because Eric Bischoff was a sensationally obnoxious winner.

Whilst Vince McMahon worked as hard as he could to pretend the opposition didn't exist half the time (and, when he did, got it spectacularly wrong with The Huckster and Nacho Man), Bischoff simply took every opportunity to poke fun at the king he'd briefly dethroned. Much of his arrogance was used as a stick to beat him with in later years, but there's a wonderful charm to the confidence lacking in today's wrestlers, let alone authority figures.

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