Eric Bischoff on Why the nWo Wolfpac Was Created

WWE legend Eric Bischoff was interviewed by our very own Chris Featherstone for his Pancakes and Powerslams podcast where he spoke on the creation of the nWo Wolfpac.

Long-time fans of the professional wrestling business will likely be familiar with nWo- a faction that included the likes of Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash and Scott Hall.

Over time it seemed dissension within the group caused the Wolfpac to be created. This would begin with Konnan, Curt Hennig, Rick Rude and Nash but would soon see Hall, Buff Bagwell, Sting, Hogan, Scott Steiner and Bischoff himself join.

Featherstone asked Bischoff why it was that the nWo became so crowded and why it was that the Wolfpac was formed.

“The reason why we expanded the nWo, quite frankly, including the reason why we brought in Bret Hart although he had nothing originally to do with the nWo, was because we knew we had launched a second primetime series on the TBS network based on the strength of Nitro on TNT,” said Bischoff. “It was a mandate directly from Ted Turner himself, and based on the success we had with Nitro on TNT, Ted was determined, much to my chagrin, and the chagrin of others at the executive level, but Ted was determined to launch this second two-hour show on TBS, and that required two things.”

“One, a significant influx of new talent, because we already had a three-hour show on TNT, and just having another two-hour show with the same talent would have cannibalized the success we had on TNT, and quite frankly it did, anyway. And the second thing was it required a position. It required me trying to create two separate brands. And this is long before Raw and SmackDown. And again I have to reiterate… I didn’t want Thunder on TBS. I petitioned as aggressively as I could under the circumstances to not have a second show, because I was fully aware of what it would do to Nitro on TNT and it did.”

“But, once I lost that battle, my goal was to create two separate brands. And the intent, although it was never realized and executed fully, the intent was for nWo to take over TNT and have WCW live on SmackDown [Thunder]. And, by doing that, I would have been able to create my own war, so to speak, and my own rivalry between Nitro and Thunder, similar in many ways to what WWE has been attempting to do, rather unsuccessfully from my perspective, but attempting to do with Raw and SmackDown.”

With H/T to the Pancakes and Powerslams Show for the transcription.

Below we have included a ‘War Games’ match featuring the Wolfpac.

FULL MATCH - Team WCW vs. nWo Hollywood vs. nWo Wolfpac - WarGames Match: WCW Fall Brawl 1998

Bischoff appeared last night during ‘Raw 25’ in both the form of highlights and in person. You can find results to that show here.

What were your personal opinions on the Wolfpac? If you had the opportunity to watch WCW live- or have seen it on the WWE Network, did you enjoy the product?

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