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WWE Hall of Famer Eric Bischoff clears the air on retirement talk.
A few weeks ago on his 83 Weeks podcast, Eric Bischoff told fans he was done with the wrestling business in an official capacity. He explained that while he’s proud of everything he’s accomplished, he no longer feels the same excitement to stay involved.
However, in a recent interview with Adam Cailler of the Daily Star, Bischoff set the record straight. He clarified that he hasn’t retired and dismissed any reports suggesting otherwise. He said, “The wrestling media were sloppy as it were. I was asked a question and made a comment and it was taken out of context. The context was ‘Eric, do you think you’ll ever be involved full time in the wrestling business?”
“Do I ever want to run a wrestling company, or own a wrestling company, or work full time for any wrestling company?’ My answer is absolutely not. That’s never going to happen again. That is in my rear view mirror, as I like to say. But that doesn’t mean that I won’t make appearances from time to time.”
“I have been doing these things for the last five years – if there’s an opportunity to do what I refer to as a one off or just simple appearances or something like that, of course, I’ll do that. Full time will never happen again. Somehow that got written into a headline that made it seem like I retired from wrestling forever. You could have said that eight years ago. I guess that’s the wrestling media”
Eric Bischoff’s original statement on his ‘retirement’ from pro wrestling
On 83 Weeks, Eric Bischoff responded to a fan question and said he’s done everything he could in wrestling and is finished working in the industry in an official capacity.
“I realize now that there is nothing I could do in professional wrestling that’s ever going to bring me fulfillment,” said Bischoff. “It’s just not because I’ve done it, and I’m proud of what I’ve done. Unless I can do something that could make me feel as excited as I felt back then about professional wrestling, I can’t do it. I just don’t have that desire to focus on that business any longer for Vince or anybody else.”
