Episode 13: Hog Wild 1996
83 Weeks with Eric Bischoff
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4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2018
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
A motorcycle rally in tiny town in South Dakota with no building and oh yeah you can't sell tickets—perfect spot for a PPV, right? Eric Bischoff thought so, but why? Head the story of how Hog Wild came to be and what the "end game" for the show really was for Turner. Get "into the weeds" about the business side of WCW in a way that's never been discussed before! Plus the guys tackle the "rumor and innuendo" about the Harlem Heat at this event, why the name was changed, who was supposed to be in Beefcake's spot, Heenan drinking before shows, who dressed Tony Schiavone, and what may have been "off" about Hulk Hogan that night.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hey, it's Conrad Thompson and you're listening to 83 weeks with Eric this off. |
| 0:05.0 | Eric, what's going on, man? How are you? |
| 0:07.2 | I'm outstanding 83 of the most glorious weeks in the history of the professional wrestling |
| 0:12.8 | industry I might add. Well, let's recycle some bullshit and talk about hog wild. |
| 0:17.6 | 19. Damn, I can't wait to talk about how we're going to be talking about some fat chicks. |
| 0:23.7 | Oh my god. |
| 0:26.0 | Oh, I don't even know where to go from here. Let's get to it, man. August 10th, 19. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm the fat chicks. |
| 0:36.2 | Table for one. |
| 0:38.2 | Um, wild, August 10th, 1996, Sturgis, South Dakota. The show does a bar rate of 0.62. |
| 0:46.4 | You guys are coming off of arguably the most important moment in WCW or for that matter, |
| 0:51.8 | one of the most important moments in wrestling history, |
| 0:54.8 | Bash of the beach, 96, which we have covered with the infamous turn of Hulk Hogan, |
| 1:00.0 | where he became a bad guy for the very first time and man ratings are off to the races. |
| 1:05.6 | WCW is climbing in a big way. |
| 1:09.6 | Millions of people are watching Monday night Nitro and you guys are pretty routinely |
| 1:16.4 | beating raw in the process. In July, on July 8th, you got a 3.5 and raw got a 2.5. |
| 1:23.6 | The next week, it was 3.4 to 2.6. The next week, it was down a little bit, but you still won 2.6 to |
| 1:30.4 | 2.2. We round out July on the 29th with Nitro at a 3.1 raw to 2.1. And you're cruising in August as |
| 1:39.4 | we head to this show, more wins, a 3 to a 2.8. And then of course, we know that a couple of days, |
| 1:46.1 | after this show, Ross is only going to get a 2 and Nitro gets a 3.3. So you're just trucking |
| 1:53.0 | Monday night raw. You've got to be feeling pretty good about your decision to turn Hulk Hogan |
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