Eric Bischoff Talks About Why Goldberg And The Rock Were So Successful

Eric Bischoff recently did an interview with Jim Ross for his podcast. During the interview Eric talked about why Goldberg and The Rock were both so successful. You can read some quotes below.

“Clearly, Bill is a very special person,” Bischoff said. “He’s a very special character. To this day, and I don’t have the experience you have, but out of all the people that I’ve worked with that I’ve met, Bill is very unique in a sense where, what you see is what you get. That intensity that you saw when he came out to the ring, it was not a lot of acting there…that was Bill.”

Bischoff also said that when Goldberg was performing in the ring, he would realize he was “getting what you got,” and because of that, Goldberg was able to connect to the audience.

“We saw that early on, but there were limitations,” explains Bischoff. “You can’t just run through a cookie cutter press and crank out a wrestler that looks like Bill Goldberg. We had to work around limitations and we wanted to accelerate the process obviously, and get him out there as soon as we could.”

Bischoff also said the same was true for The Rock:

“I think the same is true for The Rock,” Bischoff said. “Even though he went through a couple of character morphs, the truth is the same time he was hitting his peak was the same time wrestling was hitting its peak.”