Pro wrestling legend Eric Bischoff shares 1 creative angle that failed to take off

Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com.

Pro wrestling legend Eric Bischoff helped change the industry in the 1990s, but there was one storyline that didn’t pass the sniff test, much to the former executive producer’s chagrin. 

Bischoff told Fox News Digital in a recent interview there was at least one storyline he had pitched to a Turner Sports higher-up that didn’t go over so well.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM

Eric Bischoff (Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for SiriusXM/File)

The former World Championship Wrestling (WCW) president explained he was a pilot and was certified to fly "high performance complex aircraft" and got this wild idea in 1998.

"I flew all over the country. I love flying, and there was a point in time I was down in Arizona for some reason and flying around, I thought, ‘Wow, wouldn’t it be interesting if I faked my own death?’ Meaning, wouldn’t it be interesting if I, you know, let it be known that I was traveling around southern Arizona and checking out some of the sights and somehow wandered off into Mexican airspace and apparently ran out of gas or something and ended up crashing. They couldn’t find the plane or me.

"I wanted to go with that. This was like a month or two before Halloween Havoc, and I was going to make my own death in a plane crash and then appear as a ghost of myself at Halloween Havoc in Las Vegas. I was so excited about it."

JOHN CENA TO COMPETE IN 2025 ROYAL RUMBLE EVENT AS WWE LEGEND EMBARKS ON FAREWELL TOUR

Eric Bischoff speaks onstage at "The Roast of Ric Flair" at Nashville Fairgrounds on July 29, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

Bischoff said he made a short list of people he would