Eric Bischoff.
>> Where.
>> WWE, Hall of Famer.
How does that sound?
>> Where's that guy, [LAUGH]?
It'll take a while to get used to that but it's very, very cool.
>> How did it feel to go out there, and accept this honor?
>> It's hard to explain.
I've tried to explain it to people over the last week and a half or two weeks.
Once the reality set in, not the idea of being inducted, but
the reality of being inducted, when I talked to Cory on after the bell.
That reality, it was a different feeling than I've ever had in the outpouring of
just so much support from the WWE Universe on my social media, and everywhere else.
For God it's been 30 some odd years as a heel,
it was a little bit unique to have people showing so much love and support.
So it's just so hard to explain,
it's like nothing I've ever experienced before, really.
>> You talked about your journey to this point.
On that journey, did you ever foresee this moment coming to fruition?
>> I never really did see myself being a part of the WWE Hall of Fame.
I think for a couple of reasons, one is obvious.
I spent a long time competing with the WWE, and in a Monday Night War Era
that was really in its own way from a business perspective, pretty bloody.
And then, even coming to work for WWE as a talent when that war was over,
I just never put myself in that category of those giants,
that are part of the WWE Hall of Fame.
I'm a fan of many of those people.
I grew up watching many of those people.
I was inspired like RVD said, by many of those people.
So it was really difficult for me to put myself kind of in their neighborhood, so
to speak.
I felt like I wasn't really worthy to be there.
And I still feel that way, in a way it's kinda like the imposter syndrome.
And I'll get used to it trust me but for right now,
it's just a very new, very cool feeling.
But the answer a question, no, I never thought it would happen.
>> I'm sure plenty of moments over the past few weeks,
have been flying around in your head memories.
Can you speak to any of those those moments that stand out in your mind?
Most from all years of.
>> That's a really good question, man.
The memories that I feel are the most important to me right now,
aren't those big moments that we just saw in a video package?
It's the smaller moments.
The conversations, the laughs, sometimes not laughs but
those smaller moments that have begun to reverberate in my head,
in a much different way than they've ever used to.
And the smaller moments are the ones that I really value the most.
Of course, I love the big moments that were part of television, and
some of the amazing things I got to do, rustling Stone Cold Steve Austin and
a paper view being one of them, right?
But it's the little moments man, I reflect back on now and I value the most.
>> You talked about standing on the shoulders of giants.
Can you speak to some of those people that came or that maybe lifted you up, or
have even reached out to you at this point after you've been inducted now?
>> Well the phrase that I use, the term that I use, it was Latin and
it came from Greek mythology.
And I think around 1633, Isaac Newton ripped it off,
and used it to talk about his journey in the world in science.
And then Stephen Hawking of all people,
wrote a book called Standing On the Shoulders Giants.
But if you go back to Greek mythology and you learn where that phrase came from,
it really is about an opportunity that the next generation of people
have to learn from the experience and to benefit from the experience,
than those who came before them created.
And for me without question, it's very good, yeah.
I didn't drop any names in my Hall of Fame speech,
because I honestly felt bad about leaving up some.
So rather than mentioning them all, I gave a nod to all of them as Giants but
Vern Gagne certainly being one of them, Ted Turner being another.
And who's another guy that runs a sports entertainment things at Stanford,
yeah that guy too.
All these people were so important in my journey, and that's really what it is and
I ended my speech with, the best is still to come,
I believe that the best is still to come for everybody.
For everybody that's a fan of WWE, for everybody in the WWE Universe, for
the talent that is yet to become WWE talent that are still maybe 12, 13, 14,
15 years old.
This is amazing phenomenon.
The WWE Universe is an amazing amazing phenomenon, and the best is still yet
to come and it's all because of the Giants, whose shoulders I got a chance to
ride upon, and a lot of Giants that I've never met.
>> Well, thank you so much, and congratulations again.
>> Thank you much