During a recent interview with PopCulture.com, Eric Bischoff discussed the long-standing rumors that The Undertaker met with WCW officials during the “Attitude Era” in order to have some leverage over Vince McMahon. Bischoff denies that any talks between ‘Taker and WCW ever took place. As the story goes, The Undertaker had a meeting with top WCW officials in order to gain leverage in an attempt to stop playing The Undertaker character in WWE. This was rumored to be the reason why he changed to a biker role. Bischoff said,
“See, that’s another one of those internet wrestling rumors that continues to survive, what is it now, 18, 19 years later? Nothing could be further from the truth. There was never one syllable of conversation between anybody that mattered. Maybe some of the lower level guys on the production, maybe some freelancers said, ‘Wow, wouldn’t it be cool if the Undertaker came over?’
Or maybe there was some new assignees over at the Power Plant where some other people that really weren’t very significant who had some indirect association with the company that speculated about how cool it would be. There was never any meaningful conversation with anybody that mattered at any level.”
