WWE Hall of Famer and former WCW President Eric Bischoff recently took to his "the 83 Weeks" Podcast, where he talked about how commentary nowadays in pro wrestling is overproduced and commentators don't know how to feel and be real anymore.
Eric Bischoff said:
“One of the aspects of wrestling that is the most overproduced is the announcers.” “They don’t know how to make it feel real anymore. They’re too busy being good at what they do and too good at being real. I don’t mean that as a criticism, it’s the nature of the evolution of the business. It’s not because they don’t have the talent or the ability, in the case of Jim Ross, he’s left more talent on the side of the road than I’ll ever have as a play-by-play announcer. But when you’re overproduced because you know too much and are trying to do too much based on all the information you have, you’re not bringing that genuine feel, that energy that is so contagious to the viewer.”
Eric Bischoff then talked about how Bobby Heenan takes risks which pay offs big time even though it's something that is not intentional at times as he is one of the best commentators and everything comes out naturally for him.
Eric Bischoff said:
“No, I didn’t hear it live because I was watching it in the stands, so I didn’t hear it till after it was over.” “In retrospect it was a mistake on Bobby’s part, he jumped the gun. Bobby had, not unlike a lot of announcers that I’ve heard in the past, the real need to be the smartest one at the table, if you know a little bit more than everybody else somehow that makes you a better announcer. Very rarely did Bobby make mistakes like that, but he did. I don’t think it was intentional, I’m sure it wasn’t intentional, I wish it wouldn’t have happened.”
“The reason I didn’t get ridiculously upset about it was because it had an adverse effect. At the end of the day, how much damage did it do? Did it hurt the nWo? Did it hurt Hogan’s turn immeasurably? Absolutely not. It’s one of those things you wish wouldn’t happen but because i was operating under the basis of just let it be real, let whatever comes out come out, let it be natural. That’s one of the risks I took and you can’t be angry with somebody in the heat of the moment saying something when they haven’t been given any guidance either. Take the good with the bad and that’s one of the reasons why I never got wound up about it.”
Eric Bischoff then talked about the comments from Tony Schiavone and how real and full of emotion the comments was.
Eric Bischoff said:
“How great was Tony’s close?” “There is an example of less than perfect. It was pure emotion, he could’ve babbled on and on and on and got himself over, but instead he went with his gut and instinct and that was one of the top five that I ever heard [real moments on commentary].”
