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Eric Bischoff Recalls Kissing Stephanie McMahon On Smackdown With Vince Watching

December 3, 2018 | Posted by Larry Csonka
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During an episode of his podcast, (transcript via Wrestling Inc) Eric Bischoff spoke about working with Stephanie McMahon and kissing her with Vince watching…

On Working With Stephanie McMahon earky In HerCareer: “I liked the idea of working with Stephanie McMahon. Stephanie was pretty green still at the time. She had been on camera before quite a bit, but she still wasn’t in her groove 100 percent yet. But she had so much talent. Again, like I talked about with Steve Austin, the natural history, the organic and real s**t that had been going on with me in WCW and the McMahons just made it so easy,” said Bischoff. You have to remember this was before Stephanie and Triple H were a thing. I mean, they were a thing but they weren’t married yet. It wasn’t quite as obvious at this point, but to me it was fun. She was a great talent, she was believable. Hunter, Hunter was okay – I don’t mean that as a knock. Looking back now I can’t say that there was ever one really great scene that I had with Hunter where I felt that connection with Steve Austin or Mick Foley or a couple of other people, but Hunter was good. He was solid, but more than anything I think the audience was interested in that storyline and anxious to see where it was going to go based on our history.”

On Kissing Stephanie McMahon On Smackdown With Vince Watching: “I thought it was a great idea; again, it was pushing the envelope. It was the foundation of what could have been a great storyline as opposed to the back-and-forth stuff that we were doing about who was the better brand. That kind of s**t didn’t really get over with the audience because it wasn’t big enough. It wasn’t controversial enough, it wasn’t hot enough, it didn’t feel believable enough,” admitted Bischoff. “It was just going through the motions of trying to create two separate brands. This was a beat that I thought when they laid it out to me. I thought this could work depending on where they were going to go with it, but I thought it was a great idea. I was really excited. Having [Vince] standing there directing the scene while I was making out with his daughter – I knew she didn’t want to do it,” said Bischoff. “It was like me and how I felt when I had to take a Stink Face from Rikishi. I am sure she wasn’t feeling that, but she was a pro and as weird as it was, again, as a character you are doing it. I think it was a live segment, and as I am doing it I can hear the crowd reacting even though I was in a remote arena. But I can hear the reaction from the crowd, thinking, holy s**t, this is going to be great! Then it got dropped. It was like, boom, gone, never to be spoken of again which was really weird. It was more weird for me than having Vince McMahon standing there directing me as I make out with his daughter. His direction was very animated, but we did it and then it’s gone. It’s like, what the f**k?”