Picture this. It’s 2001 and we still have the Monday Night Wars. You turn on WCW Monday Nitro and the commentary team is…Don Callis and Joey Styles?
It almost happened, according to “The Invisible Hand” himself.
Callis was a guest on Talk’n Shop and revealed that at one point he had a lot of leverage with three different companies before WCW and ECW folded into the WWE, and how before it happened, he and Styles almost had a deal with Eric Bischoff.
“I had an eye-opening experience in 1998 when I was fired from my dream job two weeks before Christmas by Bruce Prichard. I had been told I would have a job there for life. They said to me three times ‘move to Connecticut and write TV.’ This is before they hired a bunch of marks and called them writers. This is when it was Pat Patterson, Vince Russo, Jim Cornette, and Vince [McMahon]. I thought I would have a job for life because I could wrestle, manage, commentate, and write. It was an eye-opener because it’s like there is no job security. In 2001, when ECW was about to go out of business, I had a gig lined up with [Eric] Bischoff. Joey Styles and I were going to go do commentary on Nitro. I was going to make more money than I ever made. I went from being able to leverage three companies to a monopoly.”
Callis has talked about him being offered a spot on the WWE creative team before. And while none of these things worked out, Callis seems to be doing pretty well for himself now.
h/t to Fightful for the quote
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