Eric Bischoff was doing a Q&A session on his 83 Weeks radio show. He was asked what he would have done with The Undertaker if he had signed with WCW. Bischoff wasn’t too keen on the idea, as it would have been a large financial investment for a character that WWE owned all the trademarks too.
“I don’t know, he wouldn’t have been the Undertaker and that’s the biggest challenge right there,” Bischoff explained. “Because you’re spending so much money for a character that you can’t have. So knowing that he wouldn’t have been anything close to the Undertaker as a character, how could we have used him? I was never a big fan of really big guys. We had Kevin, we had Paul, and it’s really hard creatively – we’ve touched on this before – booking guys that are that big. Because it’s hard in a believable way to get sympathy on them. It’s hard for them in a believable way to sell, unless you take a chainsaw to them or a bazooka. It’s hard for them to be a good heel because it doesn’t make any sense for a guy that big to be a chicken s–t. It’s not believable.”
Regardless, The Undertaker never went to WCW and he has had a legendary career in WWE and we can’t imagine him being anywhere else.
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h/t to Wrestling Inc for the transcription.
