Greetings

Hi, Executive Producer of SmackDown! Live for WWE, Eric Bischoff here. My good friend Conrad Thompson tipped me off about this place and suggested I check out some of the new and innovative booking ideas you guys often come up. Wow! (see what I did there, thats called a “self aware meta commentary,” referencing the infamous gif of me saying “Wow” on WWE television several years prior). I understand many of you were big fans of my TED talk I recently did as well as regular listeners to my podcast with The Kingmaker himself, Conrad Thompson, aptly named, 83 Weeks. I’m honored and humbled to count all of you as fans.
As I’m sure you are all aware I recently was named Executive Producer of SmackDown! Live for WWE. It’s no secret that on a creative level, not necessarily a financial one, that the WWE product has been suffering for quite some time. Hopefully I will be able to make improvements and fix some of the shortcomings the WWE product currently is weighted down by.
My big idea is to revisit popular and successful character archetypes from professional wrestling’s, or should I say, sports-entertainment’s past; using the performers currently in WWE today. Here are a few I came up with. Hopefully you guys can come up with a few more. Let’s make it a contest! The best suggestions get a year’s worth of Blue Chew FOR FREE!
>Steve Austin played by Kevin Owens
>Undertaker played by Roman Reigns
>The Rock played by Elias
>Kevin Nash played by Drew McIntyre
>Goldberg played by Bobby Lashey
>Ric Flair played by The Miz
>Shawn Michaels played by AJ Styles

I can’t wait to see what you guys come up with!

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Have Dolph change his name to Chad, and make his gimmick accusing the audience of being incels and telling them to have sex

do this but with roman

Thanks a lot Anonymous! Great suggestion!

How the hell did you go from looking like a 1950s greaser to a seventy year old man in twenty years

But in all seriousness, can we get the headbangers played by Heavy Machinery

You know you’re not the first person to suggest that. I’ll talk it over with Bruce. Thanks.

Thankfully I still have a ROCK HARD DICK thanks to Blue Chew!

>popular
>successful
>nash
didn't you learn any lessons from wcw?

have Lacy come out and say "I'M GONNA SAY THE N WORD....... NASTY!"

It would make up for the fact that she's a shit worker

she should have been a manager that occasionally slaps men and gives a stiff forearm to women

BASED

Kevin was one of our most popular performers, in addition to being one of the three focal members of the greatest wrestling faction ever. Maybe you were to young to remember but the New World Order (often stylized nWo) was incredibly popular and was the catalyst to the boom period WCW and by extension, Turner Broadcasting, enjoyed from 1996-1998. So yes I did learn something.

Roman has already been cast as the “Undertaker” archetype. But thanks for your interest and hope you tune in July 16 to check out the new and improved SmackDown! Live

i meant didn't you learn anything when you kept trying to force a stale angle the audience was tried of down their throats because you were a mark for nash and ended up driving your fanbase away? nwo was hot as fuck for about a year and a half. after that everyone was bored.

I’m only human. Admittedly the nWo angle had run its course in the end of 98, but at the time the corporate structure of Turner was drowning me and I took my eye off the ball. Rather than revisit my controversial past here, check out my podcast 83 Weeks.
Instead I would like input on the ideas I presented and any suggestions of past successful characters and who in modern WWE could portray these archetypes in a way that connects with the current audience of today. Thanks.

Bases

While I’m not familiar with specifics of the vernacular used here on the Yea Forums Alternative Sports & Wrestling board, I’m under the impression that the term you used is meant to convey approval or otherwise positive acknowledgement of the ideas and information I’ve presented. So if I understood you correctly, thanks.

Can we get more factions, Eric?

I’ve always been a fan of factions. I’d really like a suggestion regarding the type and style of faction you, the prospective audience, would like to see.
Also, please throw out some names of who you would like to see together. Bruce and I have been discussing a faction warfare angle similar to the one I did in 96, but with the added benefit of hindsight and spending the last several months studying and dissecting every show I ever was a part of, I believe we could execute a perfect story arc. But to answer your question I’m very much in favor of groups, or factions, as they are often referred to as. Suggestions are welcome. Thanks.
And don’t forget that year’s worth of Blue Chew is still up for grabs!

Give Cesaro his superman theme back and give him the fucking strap. He also needs to be in a heel stable led by Chael Sonnen and Evil Steven Regal as manager and tactician.

I feel that Regal and Chael together may be a bit overkill. It may be better for them to be on opposing sides of a faction war, considering their incredible promo abilities. All this is assuming we could even get Chael and Paul doesn’t need Regal elsewhere in his NXT duties. Given the warchest of resources WWE has at its disposal I would assume Chael’s price and conditions could easily be met. The mainstream exposure that Chael would bring could elevate Cesaero to a superstar level, something WWE desperately needs. I like this idea a lot.
As of right now you, Anonymous, are in the lead for the year of free Blue Chew!

>83 weeks
>post ends in 83

based Uncle Eric

What an interesting coincidence you pointed out there! I wouldn’t want the moderator of this board to delete anything here, so I think conspiracy theories go on another board, the name of which I can’t seem to recall. But yeah, cool beans! Hope to see ya July 16!

Can you include copious amounts of Alexa Bliss feet?