The Monday Night War Debate: 14 Things We Learned From Eric Bischoff & Bruce Prichard

7. The DX Invasion

The three men reminisce about the time when DX showed up at Monday Nitro, the CNN Center and the WCW offices. This incident has been given much more weight in the WWE retrospectives, being painted as a tide-turning event in the war, when in reality it didn't play nearly as integral a role in the momentum shift. They also continue to call it a tank, when it was actually just a jeep, but there's no need for semantics when tank sounds much cooler. It was definitely a classic moment, though. Prichard says the backstory is that during a production meeting someone posed the question of what WWE's David could do to take on WCW's Goliath, and someone said in the old days you would show up to the other promoter's event with your toughest guys and call them out, so they decided to do an updated verision of that. They had the Norfolk chief of police with them as security, to which Bischoff snidely comments "I can't imagine the 'influence' that went into making that happen." He mentions how they got a shot of the marqee that read "WCW tonight - free tickets" and opened Raw with that footage, but admits that in the lawsuit when they were accused ot editing it, the marquee actually read "WCW tonight - free tickets to the garden show Sunday". Bischoff then asks "So lying by omission is okay?" Eric talks about how firing Sean Waltman was a huge shot in the arm for WWE and that he didn't give him as much credit as he should have because he's what made DX feel real and gave them that nWo attitude. He reveals that he, Nash, Hall and Watlman had all talked about showing up at a Raw and had even looked into buying ringside seats facing the hard camera so they'd have to put them on TV. So he says that the WWE were using one of his guys, the nWo attitude as well as an idea they had tossed around previously, and "it was awesome." The former WCW boss says he wishes he could go back in time and do that one over, because if he'd really thought about it he would have let them in. Prichard adds there's always been the talk of what would have happened if the door to the arena had opened and Meng would have been standing there. What would have happened is that would have been the end of DX.