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Sep 01, 2009 15:47

The Rise and Fall of WCW was probably the most anticipated WWE DVD set release of the year so far. Nothing made that more evident than the fact that it was near impossible to find on the evening of its release. I was able to locate a copy this past weekend, but only after I had checked three Best Buys and a Target ( Read more... )

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godemperorleto September 1 2009, 23:51:58 UTC

Wrestling was one of those things that always amazed me after I met you. Where I grew up, the low-life trailer-trash with denim jackets with the sleeves cut off watched wrestling. And like-it-or-not, Mike, wrestling does appeal to that sort of person far more than it appeals to us ( ... )

By the by... godemperorleto September 2 2009, 11:43:26 UTC

Yeah, so, why did WCW fail? In your opinion and in light of that book?

Re: By the by... nbda1997 September 3 2009, 17:43:37 UTC

Well, judging by how it was managed in the early days, its a wonder that it lasted as long as it did. WCW didn't make a dime for Turner from when he bought it in the late '80s until around '97. If it wasn't for his personal love of wrestling, I'm sure it would have been sold off or dissolved in the early '90s ( ... )

Re: By the by... godemperorleto September 3 2009, 23:40:09 UTC

That's actually really interesting. I always felt that WCW's match style evolved from being a B-grade WWF in the 1980s to being A-grade and even surpassing the WWF during the early-to-mid 1990s. They seemed to have upped the ante and forced McMahon to renovate the boring jobber matches that WWF was previously all about. I remember watching WWF as a kid, and it was basically a big 2-hour commercial for Summer Slam or Wrestlemania, where the big stars manhandled hapless jobbers, then told Mean Jean all about how they were going to likewise manhandle their superstar rival... at Wrestlemania ( ... )

Re: By the by... nbda1997 September 3 2009, 18:03:13 UTC

...And on a side note - as poor as WCW was doing at the end, if the AOL/Time Warner buyout hadn't occurred, there's a good chance that it would still be around today.

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