Eric Aaron Bischoff (born May 27, 1955) is an American entrepreneur and former professional wrestling booker, producer, and on-screen personality, most known for serving as Executive Producer and later President of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and later, the General Manager of World Wrestling Entertainment's Raw brand and now working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling . With an amateur background in martial arts, Bischoff was also known to ...
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Eric Aaron Bischoff (born May 27, 1955) is an American entrepreneur and former professional wrestling booker, producer, and on-screen personality, most known for serving as Executive Producer and later President of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and later, the General Manager of World Wrestling Entertainment's Raw brand and now working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling . With an amateur background in martial arts, Bischoff was also known to sporadically compete as an in-ring performer, and is a former WCW Hardcore Champion.
He released his autobiography, Controversy Creates Cash, in 2006.
Eric Bischoff grew up as a wrestling fan in a rough part of Detroit, Michigan with his father, mother, younger brother and sister. His father was arrested in 1971 for sexually molesting Eric. In 1968, Bischoff and his family moved to Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh, where he began competing in amateur wrestling at Penn Hills junior high school. In 1970, he and his family moved...
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