The man who brought the Monday Night Wars to Vince McMahon’s Titan Towers, Eric Bischoff, will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2021 Come from Sports betting site VPbet . Bischoff is the second name going into the hall this year after former Women’s Champion, Molly Holly.

The induction came to even a shock to Bischoff, who learned about it on WWE’s After The Bell podcast. It comes at an interesting time as 20 years ago, his plan to buy WCW failed, and the company is sold to Vince, with the last Nitro airing on March 27, 2001.

Bischoff got his start in the wrestling industry in the late 1980s for fellow WWE Hall of Famer Verne Gagne’s AWA. He started off in sales, but soon found himself as an on-air host for the AWA’s shows on ESPN and backstage interviewer. As the 1990s arrived, the AWA found itself getting irrelevant and Bischoff made the move to Ted Turner’s new World Championship Wrestling in 1991.

He continued to host shows and became a play-by-play commentator on WCW’s weekly TV shows. However, he quickly rose through the company and became an executive by the mid-1990s. There, he was able to secure a position, as well as access to Turner’s checkbook, and started poaching talent from the WWE.

It was this kind of energy that helped make Monday Night Nitro a powerhouse in wrestling and gave fans some of the biggest stars of the generation and maybe the biggest moment at the formation of the nWo.

Bischoff would later find himself in WWE in 2002 as the Raw General Manager, bringing new ideas and concepts like the Elimination Chamber, and reinstating the World Heavyweight Championship. He would later join TNA as a backstage personality and start his chart-topping podcast 83 Weeks.

The WWE Hall of Fame during the 2021 Induction Ceremony, Tuesday, April 6, streaming exclusively on Peacock in the United States and WWE Network everywhere else. The ceremony will honor both the 2020 and 2021 classes.

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