Eric Bischoff says Road Dogg is the “most qualified” person TNA could get for creative right now
Former WCW President Eric Bischoff recently discussed Road Dogg and his new role with TNA creative (PWInsider reported over the weekend that Brian James was backstage at Slammiversary and starting his role this week). Speaking on his 83 Weeks podcast, Bischoff would urge people to give him time to make the changes he wants to implement.
“I have two people that work for me (in Real American Freestyle) that previously worked in WWE in production. The first one, I won’t mention her name, she said, ‘Oh, I worked for seven years for Kevin Dunn.’ If you spent seven years working for Kevin Dunn, that’s like the television broadcast equivalent of Navy SEAL Team Six. You’re hired, can you start tomorrow? So I think what Road Dogg has learned by virtue of his position, I think what he’s learned as a talent and a performer in the ring and the instinct that he’ll have there…I think the combination of those two experiences, will make him the most effective person you could probably hire realistically…not even probably, [he’s] the most qualified person you could possibly hire for that position, of anybody walking the face of the earth that’s actually available [right now]. That being said, he’s not going to be able to turn that sh*t around overnight.“
Eric Bischoff on Road Dogg
Bischoff would also say that Road Dogg needs to be given time to adapt to the role and to implement the changes that need to be made to the television programme:
“Everybody will give it [TNA] a second chance, and that’s what they should do…he’s (Road Dogg) walking into stories that pre-existed him. And no matter how much talent he may have or vision [he] may have for the product going forward, it’s going to take a year or two years to build to there. And anybody thinks that you’re going to come up with some rabbit and pull it out of your hat and all of a sudden turn your fortunes around over the course of two or three months…[they] should not be near the television business.”
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