Flipping through the WWE Network and sooner or later The Monday Night Wars will crop up, with its era one of the most defined in wrestling history.
Eric Bischoff was WCW's answer to Vince McMahon with his evil smile and jet black hair making him a natural and ideal villain for the promotion.
The 61-year-old was not just an on-screen personality as he had quite a bit of pull backstage and was often given the task of booking and made some questionable decisions.
Sting's creation
One of the few notable products of the increasingly infamous WCW was Sting, who with his eerie but lovable pale white appearance became a sensation and fan favorite whenever featured on the program.
Despite The Icon's success, the edgy look that his become so fitting of his character almost never came to be and many if not all the plaudits belong to Scott Hall.
Eric Bischoff outed the former NWO member as he said it was "Hall's idea" to "turn him black and white" before labeling the former Clique member as "one of the most creative guys" when "he was not s**t- faced."
With Sting's character growing the former WCW GM thought it would be best for business to "milk this" but did not want to rush the narrative as he likened wrestling to a "movie" in order to "extend the storyline."
He said, "All Sting had to do was hang up there in the rafters, he did not really have to do that much."
Despite this, it may have been counter-productive for the performer to have a lack of things on his daily schedule as according to Bischoff he was battling a number of "personal issues" away from the squared circle.
As the storyline dragged out the veteran said that The Icon, began to deteriorate, as he essentially "stopped going to the gym" for a full year and upon meeting Hulk Hogan in his office to talk about the booking of their Starrcade '97 they came up with a controversial finish.
When Sting entered Bischoff's office he described the performer as "deflated" and as if he were "not connected" to what "we were about to do here" which the 61-year-old and Hulkamania thought was a really "big deal."
What followed was something that the former RAW GM regrets as he said "As Sting was disengaged, we needed to rethink things" the new plan was a "compromise" and unfortunately turned out to be a "bad idea."
While Bischoff accepts that the decision to mimic that of The Montreal Screwjob was a bad choice he said it was the right thing at that time as he felt Sting was "not ready for that role he would have been given."
On not buying WCW
When Vince McMahon purchased his rivals WCW in 2001 it was a surreal experience as it finally put an official end to The Monday Night Wars.
Bischoff claimed that he had an offer on the table and really wanted to buy the company but ultimately did not have the sway that Vinnie Mac had.
When asked if he had any regrets regarding not buying the company he said, "No, I did not like my eggs this morning but I still have to carry them wherever I go."
The 61-year-old's example suggested that he was in no way upset regarding his rejected bid but said that in his "fantasy" purchasing WCW would have been something he wanted.
He said, "In my fantasy, would I like to have bought the company? Yeah, I have those feelings every once in a while."
He continued to say that before his purchase, there was no way to "imagine" what the "internet" and the "WWE Network" would have grown to, making the failure to scoop the promotion that much more costly