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Lopen posted...

I'm curious, and this may be difficult-- but if Bischoff was just a wrestling character who was like, just a crooked authority figure/mouthpiece type on screen, how would you rank him? Significantly lower I assume, but I'm just curious how much you actually liked the on screen character-- I mean I know there is some fondness there from the write-up but you didn't talk about it much at all (in fairness there's a lot to cover with him) so it's unsure.

I just didn't have a LOT of space, and I think that the character of Bischoff on-screen is virtually identical to Bischoff off-screen. Again, he's Max Lord. Grinning, oozing a fake charm that is almost completely unsettling. Before he let his hair go gray, he was very much what I consider a Ken-doll style announcer, but he had this underlying dishonesty to him that worked really well. And he cut the singularly best heel authority figure promos in the business. I remember him getting pelted with stuff in the ring and just growing in his smile every time. THAT'S a great actor.

He would have ranked right behind Heenan I would guess if he was just Bischoff without the backstage presence.

Lopen posted...

Also where do you expect Vince McMahon would rank were he actually nominated?

I think the Vince character is nowhere near as good as the Bischoff heel character, and the real world actions of Vince are actually more of a turn-off to me than a positive. He would have ranked below Triple H on my list.
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