Eric Bischoff: Controversy Creates Cash - Eric Bischoff

CONTROVERSY CREATES CASH is the autiobiography of Eric Bischoff. Bischoff is famous in the wrestling world for been the man behind WCW in the nineties when it was becoming more poular than the WWF. Consequently the book doesn't feature much of Bischoff growing up which I liked as celebrities as children is hardly ever entertaining in books. Bischoff explains how he got into WCW and his dealings with owner Ted Turner. The relationship between these two men is interesting as they argued constantly. Bischoff talks of his excitement when WCW was at his peak and on the brink of overtaking WWF. The part on the Monday Night Wars is fascinating as ...  Read the complete review

Eric Bischoff is a bit like wrestling, you either love him or hate him. His on screen persona ensures most people will hate him. Wrestling and Bischofff share the Marmite like dilema of this book. Without a doubt the mid-to-late 1990's were the peak of wrestling as an entertainment spectacle. Gone were the days of super muscled men with limited vocab telling us to take our vitamins but instead we had 'Atttitude'. D-X led the WWF charge but WCW was one step ahead with nWo. It's hard to believe now but WCW hammered Vince McMahon's WWF week after week in the Monday Night Rating Wars and the man behind it was Bischoff. This book does little to ...  Read the complete review

For the uninitiated - and given the subject matter here is professional wrestling, I'm guessing that's just about everyone - Eric Bischoff was the man behind World Championship Wrestling (hereafter WCW), both as an on-screen personality and as the driving force behind the company's high of the mid-to-late-1990s. This is his story and, unsurprisingly, the overwhelming majority of it deals with his time at WCW, going into great detail over the boardroom struggles Bischoff had at Turner, and the storylines he created for the group's ground-breaking television show, Nitro. Herein, I feel, lies the problem. The book falls between two stools. Only the ...  Read the complete review