On the latest episode of Dark Side of the Ring basically confirmed what a lot of people have been saying for years!
Eric Bischoff helped drive TNA straight into a financial death spiral.
They walked into a company they didn’t understand, threw away everything that made TNA different, and turned it into “Diet WCW.” Instead of building the young stars and the X-Division that fans actually cared about, they filled the roster and creative meetings with their buddies, recycled the same names, and chased nostalgia that was already 10 years past its expiration date.
Then Bischoff’s response is somehow even worse.
His defense is essentially, “Well, it worked in the ’90s.”
Yeah… because it was the ’90s.
Those ideas were fresh THEN. Running the exact same NWO style formulas, the same authority figure tropes, and the same recycled booking years later wasn’t innovative…it was lazy. Fans had already seen the movie. You can’t keep rereleasing the same script and act surprised when nobody buys a ticket.
This is exactly why I can’t take Eric Bischoff’s wrestling opinions seriously in 2026. Every time he critiques modern wrestling, he speaks like someone whose last major creative success happened nearly 30 years ago. Since then? WCW died, his WWE run flopped, and his TNA experiment is now literally being dissected on Dark Side of the Ring as an example of what not to do.
At some point, nostalgia has to stop being confused with credibility.
Watch till end 👇👇
1. *Forged like Excalibur*: Lunges, plates, and purpose.
2. *Train like the legend you’re becoming*
3. *No sword. Just grit.*
4. *Split squats + rotation = legs + core + mental toughness*
5. *Balance under load. Control under pressure.*
6. *If it’s easy, you’re doing it wrong*🔥🔥