Eric Bischoff Asks Sean Waltman “Why Did I Fire You?” in Latest Podcast

– Sean Waltman was the guest on the latest episode of Bischoff on Wrestling and talked about their time in WCW together and other aspects of Waltman’s career. You can listen below. At one point, they had the following exchange while discussing Bischoff’s release of Waltman from his WCW contract in late 1997:

Bischoff: “Why did I fire you?”

Waltman: “This is the thing. I can only speculate because I wasn’t there when you, Kevin and Scott had whatever it is that happened. I was out recovering from my cervical surgery. The word is that you were mad at Kevin and Scott so you wanted to put them in their place and so you fired me. I also heard, this makes sense too, that there was a little more to it than that and it had more to do with me not signing my agreement and trying to hold out for more money. Is that part of it?”

Bischoff: “The listeners are probably going, “Wow, that’s a screwy question for Eric to ask Sean.” You and I are both so much past this that it’s more of just an interesting conversation for me more than anything else. First of all, if I would have fired you to send a message to Scott and Kevin that would have been the most chicken sh*t move that I could have ever imagined doing. I just don’t think I’m quite capable of that. If I wanted to do something to them I would have done it to them.”