Bischoff readily admitted that he wasn’t looking for a job with WWE at the time, taking it mainly for the large paycheck and for the chance to practice his formula at the highest level. Even then, Bischoff claimed that he was only looking to remain with WWE for, at most, two years, after which he would depart, hoping by that point that his storytelling formula would’ve taken hold in WWE and left it in a better place. These days, Bischoff realizes that just wasn’t possible under that era of WWE.

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“Unfortunately, I was never able to adapt to the WWE system and culture,” Bischoff said. “[I] never really had a chance to work on that, because the fire hose nature of the way things were being done in WWE at the time, with regard to creative and the way Vince liked doing things, there was really no opportunity to focus on that.”

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