General Chit-Chat Thread: A New Beginning

[Hidden Blaze]

If the company had done way better than the last two years they did, WCW wouldn't have died. Doesn't matter about the merger, someone else would've taken over the company if it would've been in a better shape than it was.

Which is the other factors that I mentioned. The ultimate thing is still that imo. The other stuff just hurt it to the point no one else wanted it. Plus the fact that people up too wanted WCW to cut back on this and that. Like don’t get me wrong, the people in charge played a huge part in it sure, but like a lot of those people who worked there didn’t ever want wrestling. Even during the hight of the 90s.

 

[Chris]

It's just hard for me to believe the guys that didn't like wrestling would have been able to get their voices heard if the company itself was still making money instead of losing a ton

 

[Chris]

"Hey let's cancel the wrestling thing" "why, it makes a lot of profit" "it's dumb" "yeah okay, that's a point"

 

[Y2Jayne]

The learning pup

 

[Chris]

Same guy ruined cartoon network I think too tho

 

[Hidden Blaze]

It's just hard for me to believe the guys that didn't like wrestling would have been able to get their voices heard if the company itself was still making money instead of losing a ton

Maybe, but idk. Execs are dumb as fuck, and definitely cancel shit that’s still doing good. Like I said the argument definitely can be made that they could’ve probably found another home if they were doing better. But I believe it was Smark who said one of the things that made them lose a lot of money they were making was getting rid of the 3rd hour, which is a lot of ad revenue. If that’s true or not idk however

 

[Chris]

Well I think when the company started losing money it was easier for the people to further sabotage it and taking away the 3rd hour would have been a step in that

 

[Chris]

And that sabotage (and the product sucking) lead to it being viewed as dead and no one else wanting it

 

[Chris]

And a better product may not have helped anyway but a product that wasn't losing a shit ton of money could have lol I just don't know what product that would have been

 

[Hidden Blaze]

I think we all agree it was a multitude of factors behind it. just disagree on what factors were bigger

 

[Chris]

Maybe it's bc this is the narrative Bischoff is pushing so hard that I'm pushing back on it but I've always thought the network made the final call to kill but it was not "inevitable" like he wanted you to think, it was just inevitable late 2000 once everything had went to shit

 

[Chris]

I think we all agree it was a multitude of factors behind it. just disagree on what factors were bigger

that's why Rock made a show for everyone to point fingers

 

[Chris]

Bischoff has even said on this one that Ted Turner himself didn't want wrestling apparently which we know is a lie

 

[Hidden Blaze]

I do know on the first one, he said Ted was close to axing it, before he was put in charge

 

[Daddy Dom]

this still one best aew story I feel like I lost my interest after this ended personally