Eric Bischoff Talks Influence Still Resonating In WWE, Using Cruiserweights In WCW During The War

Eric Bischoff recently spoke with SI.com’s Extra Mustard site to discuss the WWE Cruiserweight Classic. The full interview is at this link and highlights are below:

The decision to use call the division Cruiserweights in WCW:

“When I created the Cruiserweight division in WCW, nobody called them cruiserweights in the industry at that point. That was a boxing term, not a wrestling term, but I did not want to call them junior heavyweights, light heavyweights, or anything that made them sound diminutive. I wanted it to sound special and cool. I’d watched wrestlers over in Japan who had that real hard-hitting, fast-paced athletic approach to their presentation, and I watched the luchadors when I’d been exposed to them in Los Angeles prior to hiring them.”

What he told the first Cruiserweights and using them in the Monday Night War:

“When I hired the …

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