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Eric Bischoff: Controversy Creates Cash | 
 enlarge | Authors: Eric Bischoff, Jeremy Roberts
Publisher: World Wrestling Entertainment
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  51 reviews
Sales Rank: 270616
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 1416528547
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9781416528548
ASIN: 1416528547
Publication Date: June 5, 2007
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Condition: paperback, corner edges show wear, stain pg rim & 1pg other pages perfect
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Product Description
Eric Bischoff has been called pro wrestling's most hated man. Booed, reviled, and burned in effigy, he's been struck by everything from beer bottles to fists. Though industry critics have scorned his spectacular rise and fall at World Championship Wrestling, Bischoff's influence still resonates. For years, Bischoff kept quiet while industry "pundits" distorted the truth about the infamous Monday Night Wars, basing their accounts on rumors and innuendo. Finally, Bischoff tells what really happened.Beginning with his days as a salesman for the American Wrestling Association, Bischoff exposes the industry's inner workings, from the real numbers behind WCW's red ink to the devastating impact of the corporate mergers. Among his revelations: How WCW became a national brand and revolutionized the industry. How Hulk Hogan, Jesse Ventura, and Steve Austin shaped WCW, and how corporate politics killed it. And how he found his inner heel and learned to love being the guy everyone loves to despise. Reflecting on his childhood, his family, and the pressures of notoriety, Bischoff tells how he found contentment after being unceremoniously "sent home." Love him or hate him, readers will never look at pro wrestling the same way again after reading Eric Bischoff's story in Controversy Creates Cash.
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Un vistazo al negocio del prowrestling September 28, 2008
Para aquellos que ven el pro wrestling como un negocio y un deporte, este libro muestra la vida de Eric Bischoff en el entretenimiento deportivo. Aunque en varios ocasiones muestra un lado muy positivo (no acepta sus errores) "Controversy creates cash" amplia el mundo del square circle.
 A good read for most wrestling fans July 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found this book to be quite an interesting read. For years, I had heard nothing but negative things about Eric Bischoff, so to see it from his perspective was refreshing. As a longtime wrestling fan who was engrossed in the Monday Night Wars during my teenage years, I enjoyed reading about how it all played out behind the scenes. Bischoff's vision of blurring the line between kayfabe and reality was, in my opinion, the perfect jump-start that wresting needed, and it certainly kept me coming back for more. Say what you want about Bischoff, but there is no question that the changes he made to WCW, and WWE's response to them, created a period of great prosperity for both companies and enjoyment for the fans.
I admired how Bischoff was willing to admit some of his own faults, as well as his (mostly) balanced assessments of other wrestlers, bookers, promoters, etc., although some seemed a bit sketchy. And while I understand that the Time Warner/AOL merger was very detrimental to WCW from a creative control point of view, Bischoff doesn't touch on the negative aspects of the product itself. He doesn't really talk about how bad of a decision it was to split up the NWO into factions, nor does he mention the fingerpoke of doom. He also doesn't talk about the truly troubled aspects of his relationship with Ric Flair, such as how Flair basically assaulted him when both were in WWE. There are also parts of the book that have to be taken with a grain of salt, such as his constant praise of Vince McMahon. While I'm sure some of it was genuine, one cannot also discount the fact that McMahon was Bischoff's boss at the time. I have heard plenty of negative things about Vince, and one would be inclined to think that Bishcoff would give a more frank opinion of him had he not been under contract to WWE at the time.
Overall, I enjoyed this book. Whether you love him or hate him, I believe that most wrestling fans should read this book and then come to their own conclusions. Recommended.
Controversy Creates Cash June 16, 2008
Eric Bischoff is a true fan of wrestling. You get an inside look at his life from growing up in Detroit, through his struggles in Minnesota, to his rise to fame and his battles with Vince Mc Mahon and the WWE. He has a genuine passion for wrestling and gives you insight to the politics involved with the business. You even get to learn a few very suprising things about some of your favorite and not so favorite wrestlers.
Not what I entirely what I expected...an ok, but a quick read March 31, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Hoping to read a lot about the wrestlers I grew up watching 30+ years ago, what I got - and enjoyed - instead was an overview of the industry. Bischoff was surprisingly humble, to the point of regularly admitting to mistakes on his part.
Mr. Bischoff wrote a seemingly fair, balanced book that frames him as a familyman and overall decent guy. I may not want to watch him on tv anymore, but I'd enjoy a cup of coffee with him.
Fine read from Eric's point of view ! March 29, 2008
Interesting to read about the rise and fall of Eric Bischoff..... how he rose through the ranks of the NWA/WCW and the office politics he had to endure during his run in WCW.
I'm sure he deserves credit from taking WCW to greater highs...to the point of nearly bankrupting the WWE back in the late 1990's.
Highly recomended for any wrestling fan who grew up watching wrestling during (AS I LIKE TO REFER TO IT) the golden age wrestling. !
Or for that matter anyone who missed out on the monday night wars and watches wrestling today and thinks it rocks should also consider this book. Cause lets face it wrestling today is simply put very boring !
One thing i didnt like about this book is how Eric denies having done anything wrong which led to the end of WCW and blames the merger between AOL and Time Warner, or giving wrestlers creative control/overpaying them. Or even the office politics that restricted Eric from copying the WWE during the Stone Cold and D-Generation X era.
Buy it ! you'll see what i mean !
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