WWE Confidential Report 7-20-02
    Submitted by Retro Rob on Sunday, July 21, 2002 at 1:18 PM EST

    WWE Confidential: July 20, 2002

    Highest Rating: 1.5 (May 22, 2002)
    Lowest Rating: 0.5 (June 29, 2002- Rerun of May 22, 2002 @ 8:00PM)

    Last Rating: 0.8

    For those of you who don't know me, I write for The Smart Marks. You may also
    remember me as the guy who interviewed Trish Stratus several days ago. I
    would like to thank LOP for plugging that interview and the site itself. Let's
    get down to business.

    Gene recaps the Eric Bischoff-Vince McMahon saga.

    Cover Story: Eric Bischoff
    Eric's biggest fear on Monday night was that none of the fans would react
    to him showing up. It wasn't hard for Eric to sign with the WWE, but it
    was different. Vince is optimistic about their working relationship.
    Vince met Bischoff for the first time five minutes before they hugged. JR
    talked with the Superstars and in general they weren't really pissed off
    about Bischoff signing. JR isn't ready to have Christmas dinner with Eric,
    but he does respect some of his accomplishments. Eric goes back to Monday
    Nitro's debut. Ted Turner asked Eric what he was going to do with two
    hours every Monday Night, so Eric decided to do things different than the
    WWF, which led to Nitro going live. Vince talks about the dirty tricks.
    The clip of Madusa throwing out the WWF Women's Title is shown. Eric
    doesn't regret anything. The clip of Tony revealing that Mick Foley would
    win the WWF Title follows. Eric considers giving out the results of Raw
    was kind of a lousy thing to do. Several years ago, Vince thought the WWF
    was better than the WCW, but the ratings didn't agree. Eric remembers
    leaving a message on Vince's answering machine during the WCW win streak
    just to piss him off. Vince doesn't think Raw would have been the same
    without Nitro. Many of his co-workers told Eric to never even begin to
    compete with the WWF.

    Segment 1: 1/1

    Part 2 of the Torrie Wilson Story
    Torrie goes back to her modeling history. Torrie was asked to lose 5 lbs.,
    she lost 10 instead and the modeling agency told her that she looked
    great. She thought that meant the more weight she lost, the better she
    would look. Torrie refused to eat for a while. Her mom recalls Torrie
    being hungry on Thanksgiving, yet she only took a teaspoon of each piece of
    food. Her friends and family used to look out for her. When they told her
    she looked sickly, she took that as a compliment. Torrie was also an
    exercise freak. Torrie ended up in the hospital at one point for
    dehydration. Torrie talks about forcing herself to throw up after
    talking. After that, the modeling agency told her to stop losing weight
    because she looked sick. From there, Torrie began to follow the diet of
    more muscular women. Torrie considers her escape from her eating disorder
    a miracle. She thinks the years she spent losing weight were wasted.

    Segment 2: 1.5/2

    Before They Were Superstars: Chris Nowinski
    Chris remembers his childhood was very sheltered. His mom actually says
    that he was a boring kid. Although Chris was athletic and bright, he never
    really achieved much social success. He partially blames that on his mom's
    early curfews and he taking him to various places with her. His sister's
    both thought that he was a nerd in high school. Chris was the best
    football player in his high school and he finished 9th in a class of 400.
    Harvard actually called him, so he accepted their offer. He slacked off
    throughout his freshmen year, but from there he became more of a team
    player. Once he graduated from Harvard he had a pharmaceutical job set
    up. He never really wanted a desk job, so he went to Killer Kowalski's
    school and trained to become a wrestler. Chris' interest in wrestling
    started late in his life because his mother never allowed him to watch it
    at home. After 3 months with Kowalski, Chris got picked up by Tough
    Enough, which is were he learned how important relationships are in the
    wrestling world.

    Segmet 3: 2.5/3

    Mean Gene begins the segment by saying that Eric Bischoff's road to success
    started when he auditioned for an on-air role with the WWF and didn't get
    the job. Unbelievable how the WWE will take credit for ANYTHING.

    Part of Eric's audition is shown and I can see why the WWE didn't sign
    him. HE WAS TALKING ABOUT A BROOM! Vince doesn't recall the audition.
    Hell, Vince doesn't remember why he didn't sign Eric back in 1990. Looking
    back at it, Bischoff is happy that the WWF didn't pick him up. Vince put
    his ego on the side when he signed Eric because he will do whatever it
    takes to save the WWE. McMahon brings up how he had just as many problems
    with Hulk Hogan as he did with Eric Bischoff. Eric and Vince both agree
    that *technically* WCW didn't steal any wrestlers. Eric knew that WCW
    didn't bring in very much money with PPV and merchandising, so he had to
    offer wrestlers guarantees, which Vince couldn't afford to do. Recap of
    the Hall/Nash invasion. Vince was pissed off that WCW used the Razor Ramon
    and Diesel character for several weeks. Vince admits to being worried
    about the WWF going out of business. Eric thinks that most of the people
    who used to have problems with him don't anymore because several years have
    gone by since then. I doubt Ric Flair feels that way.

    Segment 4: 3.5/4

    I've barely been able to wait a whole week for the BRADSHAW-LINDA MILES
    basketball game. The Coach decides that they should play "WWE" instead
    of "TEXAS" this time and Linda gives herself a "W". Linda quickly ends up
    losing the game. Bradshaw tells that although she is good, he is a
    tremendous athlete. OK, that sucked.

    Segment 5: 3.5/5

    Eric Bischoff is back and is looking forward to speaking with Bill Goldberg
    about his possible return to wrestling.

    Next Week: The Fall of WCW

    Segment 6: 4/6

    THIS IS IT

    Good show this week with an interesting ending. I'm really looking forward
    to next Saturday though. That should be a dandy.

    This week on The Smart Marks
    JHawk will have his Raw recap up on Monday Night. Dr. Tom will be in with
    SmackDown and I'll have a tape review up on Friday, so be sure to check all
    that stuff out.


    Retro Rob
    http://www.thesmartmarks.com




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