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Published 18:13 IST, October 17th 2019

WWE: Why was SmackDown Executive Director Eric Bischoff fired?

WWE SmackDown executive director Eric Bischoff departs from his post and leaves WWE. Know more about the actual reason for his departure and more details

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WWE is going through a lot of changes at the moment. There are crazy transfers going around with wrestlers and Superstars from different organisations (Boxing/MMA) are making their way inside the WWE ring. In this crazy condition of turmoil, WWE is again in news for firing the Executive Director of SmackDown Eric Bischoff. The 64-year-old is a veteran in the wrestling universe and his departure from WWE has left a lot of fans confused. Eric Bischoff’s departure came from the side of WWE and a lot of fans are demanding the return of WCW along with it.

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WWE: Why did Eric Bischoff leave?

The 64-year-old former WCW President gave heavy competition to WWE back in the days, but WWE managed to keep its ground strong and emerged as the more powerful wrestling organisation in the world. However, WWE CEO Vince McMahon felt that Eric Bischoff’s experience can be useful for his organisation and appointed him as the SmackDown Executive Director a few months back but it did not last long. According to reports, Bischoff failed to keep up with WWE’s agenda and his co-workers wanted him to leave the spot. In a recent interview with an American magazine, Bryan Alvarez opened up about Bischoff’s current situation in WWE. According to Alvarez, Bischoff did not know any of the new talents in WWE and had no intentions of changing it. He was quiet in the office and showed no energy or enthusiasm to be seen as the WWE SmackDown Executive Director. It was also reported that Bischoff was unaware of a lot of big names in WWE. This really pissed off the WWE CEO Vince McMahon and forced him to fire Bischoff from the post.

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WWE: New Executive Director

After Bischoff’s departure from the post, Bruce Prichard has been named as the new Executive Director of SmackDown. Prichard is going to see the overall creative development of Friday Night SmackDown and Vince McMahon is reportedly confident about his new SmackDown in charge. Bischoff also feels that WWE SmackDown is in safe hands with Prichard as the Executive Director. The former director congratulated his replacement for his new post through Twitter.

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16:24 IST, October 17th 2019