Eric Bischoff reveals why Kevin Nash and Scott Hall left WWE for WCW

Former WCW President Eric Bischoff has sought to set the record straight about how he managed to lure two of WWE’s biggest stars to WCW back in 1996.Bischoff later worked for the WWE after Vince Mcmahon bought WCW and even joined TNA as executive producer from 2010 to 2013.

In an interview to the Alternative Nation he clears a misconception and attempts to set right a “false narrative”.

“Hall and Nash weren’t forced to leave their beloved WWE for anything, they chose to. They chose to leave WWE and come to WCW, not for the money, because the truth and the facts are that I probably didn’t offer them any more money than they were already making. I couldn’t really speak to this, because I wasn’t doing their taxes at the time, but I’m pretty sure that they were probably making more money. But the real reason I remember, having firsthand discussions with both of them, they didn’t leave WWE for the money. They left WWE to come to WCW for the lifestyle, because we had a maximum of 180 days in their contracts.”

“The WWE was running them much more than that, then you add travel on top of the actual days they were performing, they were running 300 plus days a year. That’s a fairly well documented schedule that I think many people that were in WWE at the time, if not now, would support. WCW wasn’t running that heavy of a schedule. We hadn’t built up our international business model, or our arena revenue model, enough to support that kind of schedule. Did they get a guaranteed amount of money that was probably close to equivalent, possibly slightly more than they were making at WWE? Yeah. But the narrative that they were forced to leave because I was offering them this huge vast amount of money is complete and utter nonsense. It’s just not true.”

You can read the full interview here.