Eric Bischoff knew from the start that bringing Joanie "Chyna" Laurer into TNA Wrestling was not a good idea.
The WWE Hall Of Fame legend reflected on the TNA Sacrifice 2011 pay-per-view during a recent installment of his official podcast, 83 Weeks, where he spoke about knowing from the get-go that bringing in the late women's wrestling legend was not going to work out like others had hoped.
Featured below is an excerpt from the episode where he touches on this particular topic.
"Chyna is not here to defend herself, and there’s no reason to speak ill of Chyna, but I think the logic of bringing her in, and this is all Vince Russo to my knowledge. Maybe Kurt (Angle) had something to do with it. Maybe Jeff (Jarrett) had something to do with it, I don’t know. I didn’t. I’m telling you the way I felt standing outside looking in at the time, I thought it was a bad idea. Chyna had been going through a lot of personal issues and they were very high profile. To me, the risk of bringing her in, given all of the things that everybody was aware of on TMZ and the media and everything else, the risk to the business, the advertising business, the damage it could potentially do to the brand, was just a bad choice and she had been out of the game for 10 years. She wasn’t ready to be in a match. She wasn’t on her game. I just felt like the risk completely outweighed the reward, the potential reward."
Check out the complete episode of the 83 Weeks podcast featuring Eric Bischoff at WestwoodOnePodcasts.com. H/T to WrestlingNews.co for transcribing the above quotes.
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