Scott Norton couldn’t believe what was happening backstage at WCW.
He was recently asked by Wrestling Shoot Interviews why his feud with Randy Savage in WCW in 1995 was abruptly ended. Scott Norton replied, commenting on the nature of WCW’s booking under Eric Bischoff.
Norton shared details of a flight he took with Bischoff and talent. Norton said that the matches changed on the day of the show, showing how haphazard the booking was from day to day.
“I don’t know how to tell you this, I mean, unlike what I did in Japan when I was told something happened. Man, Eric is one of my best friends in this business, but a lot of things that were said never happened, and I understand the circumstances behind it. Seriously, the political fallout in that place is absolutely…”
“I remember we’re on a private flight, and this is how I could sum it up: Me, Luger, Bagwell, Scotty, Steiner, Rick Steiner, Eric, and I end up sitting next to Eric, and Eric says, ‘Read this.’ It was a booking sheet. So I read over the matches, and I was in the main event with Goldberg. I say, ‘What?’ You know, that’s fine, I love it.'”
“And he goes, ‘You see that?’ He says, ‘Try to remember that.’ He says, ‘Because not one of these matches are going to happen.’ He says. ‘I’ve worked on this all week long, you know? To do this show, and it’s all going to get changed.’ And I’m not kidding you. I went from being in the main event with Goldberg. It didn’t even happen the whole… And I mean there were so many.
Scott Norton Couldn’t Believe Wrestlers Negotiating Their Spot On The Card
Scott Norton continued. He revealed that he had never seen wrestlers negotiating which matches they’d do “right before the show.”
“I mean, I’ve never seen it’s like negotiations with wrestlers right before the show. I mean, it just… In Japan, you were told do something, that’s what happened, boom, there. I mean, you got personalities, you got guys that are getting too much steam, and it’s just… It just… It was really a bad situation, so I understood why they never kept their promise to me, because I never forced them. I knew where I wanted to be.”
“That was a stepping stone. That was just something that New Japan… After you got going for a while, they wanted you to go somewhere else for a couple three years, and it worked out where we brought NWO to Japan, blah, blah, blah, in that sense. But it wasn’t something that it didn’t matter what I did. I could have went in the locker room, told them to F off, blah, blah, blah. I’d have been one of a hundred guys doing it, and that’s something I don’t.”
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