Eric Bischoff, Kevin Nash, and Sean Waltman (Syxx) comment on the NWO’s 25th anniversary

July 7th 2021 marks 25 years to the day that the New World Order faction was formed at the 1996 Bash at the Beach PPV event.

In an interview with TSN.ca, Eric Bischoff commented on the impact of the group and Hulk Hogan’s heel turn…

“I think the NWO, in the storyline, in the presentation of the NWO, presentation of the characters in the NWO really changed the industry probably more than anything since Vince McMahon went from being a regional territory under his father to becoming a worldwide territory and really changed wrestling back in the ‘80s.”

“I had a conversation with Hulk about eight months prior to Scott Hall and Kevin Nash coming in, where I suggested to Hulk that, perhaps, he might consider turning heel and doing a 100 per-cent overhaul of the character,” Bischoff said. “That was eight months prior, like I said, to Scott Hall even reaching out to me or the idea of the NWO even beginning to form in my head and I was summarily escorted out of his home. He did it very elegantly, I might add. He wasn’t mean or aggressive about it, but nonetheless, he made it clear to me that he had no interest in turning heel.”

Eric Bischoff New World Order NWO – TSN.ca

It was on July 7, 1996 that Hulk Hogan made his infamous heel turn and the New World Order was born at World Championship Wrestling’s Bash at the Beach. Twenty five years later, TSN.ca caught up with the man behind the NWO, Eric Bischoff, to look back at one of the most transformative events in pro wrestling history.

Kevin Nash commented on the anniversary with the following tweet…

During an appearance on WWE’s The Bump, Sean Waltman (Syxx in the NWO) talked about the group…