7 People Who Suffered The Most When WCW Folded

3. Eric Bischoff

He went from trying to put Vince McMahon out of business to saying "yes sir" as McMahon's employee over a year later. While Bischoff seems to have an attitude about it as if his WWE experience wasn't bad because there was a lot less stress, there's a major difference from being the actual boss of a show to only being an on air character on your rival's show. He wanted to really beat WWE to the point that they died and instead ended up working for them. Talk about losing a fight. He got his ass kicked. Remember that Bischoff was really close to buying WCW before WWE swooped in and got them. Bischoff had gathered up investors, but they didn't buy it because the TV deal was gone. Without TV, Bischoff felt WCW wasn't worth it and he was right. There was no guarantee that they'd be on some other channel. It's obvious that Bischoff still wanted to run the company. A decade later he was in TNA in a position of power. He wasn't the owner because Dixie Carter was, but he was a key decision maker. That didn't end well either. Bischoff didn't suffer financially from WCW's closing, but it was definitely an ego hit. He's been able to move on to reality TV shows too, so good for him for that. It's just that if he had it his way then he would have been able to buy WCW in 2001 and who knows what would have happened to it at that point.