WWE Legend Wanted To Fake His Death In Scrapped Storyline
One WWE Hall of Famer has revealed that they wanted to fake their own death in a storyline, and what stopped it from happening.
Long before Vince McMahon’s limo blew up on Raw, WWE Hall of Famer Eric Bischoff had his own grand plans to fake his own death while running WCW.
In 1996, the NWO was invading WCW and heading to the top of the company despite allegedly being outsiders. To fill in that logic hole, Biscoff was eventually revealed as part of the rogue group, but his original plan was much more drastic than that.
WWE Hall Of Famer Eric Bischoff Stopped From Faking His Death
Speaking on his 83 Weeks podcast, Eric Bischoff revealed that he wanted to fake his own death in an apparent plane crash:
I really wanted to fake my own death. I had my own plane at the time… what if I just made it known I was gonna go fly around the Grand Canyon… and then somehow the speculation would be that I must have gotten off course and flew into Mexican airspace. I was no longer being tracked by FAA, who knows what happened.
However, then Turner executive Harvey Schiller put a stop to the idea with Bischoff explaining why:
I was an officer with internal broadcasting of a publicly held company. If it’s revealed that this faked death for a wrestling storyline could be interpreted as somehow manipulating public stock, there’s exposure there… So I understood it. I just hated it. If I’d have gotten a green light from Harvey, I would have done it.