WCW Monday Nitro Live Watch-Along: From the Beginning

[Mochii_Mars]

ewww

 

[Tremendez]

It wasn't even that Turner didn't want it anymore, it's that Ted Turner lost any power after the Time Warner buyout.

That’s what he means though the AOL Time Warner conglomerate just didn’t want it because while I will openly admit, WCW fell a lot between 1999-2000 even in 2001 nitro was the highest program on their networks. There was zero reason to get rid of it, especially if you had sold it to someone else. Bischoff was planning on buying it. Why would you cancel the programming it made no sense.

 

[R-Troop]

It wasn't even that Turner didn't want it anymore, it's that Ted Turner lost any power after the Time Warner buyout.

correct, when I said turner I mean AOL/Time Warner

 

[Barry Poppins]

LMFAO

 

[Barry Poppins]

DON CORLEONE HULK HOGAN

 

[Tremendez]

If Turner was in charge after the Time Warner buyout and AOL Merger, WCW would still be alive today.

Indeed. I still don’t understand how he didn’t realize that his standing was going to be diminished beyond the point of executive control after another merger.

 

[Mochii_Mars]

LMAOOO

 

[Mochii_Mars]

i hate this XD

 

[Barry Poppins]

LMFAO

 

[Barry Poppins]

Hogan "I MAKE PROMOTERS DROP TO THEIR KNEES BROTHER"

 

[Tremendez]

I think Hogan doesn’t need a neck brace so much as he needs some knee braces around here.

 

[Barry Poppins]

This is so fucking hokey lmfao

 

[R-Troop]

This is so fucking hokey lmfao

wrestling promos in general are hokey as shit

 

[Barry Poppins]

BIG STINKY GIANT

 

[Tremendez]

Shit a lot of people don’t realize it either but like by the time you get to the fall of 1999 while it was still a shell of where it was in 98 the Buy rates and the ratings were starting to slowly come back. They did 235K for Halloween Havoc and they were getting back to 3.5 for nitro. As much as I love Vince Russo in the WWF and TNA he never should’ve been brought into WCW. It wasn’t his style of wrestling. The audience didn’t want his style of booking. WCW would have rebounded to something survival in 2000 if they had just stuck to what they were doing in October 1999 as well. At that point Dusty Rhodes had come back to the creative team and he was actually booking a lot more than Nash even was at that time. Nash would be phased out before Russo even came in and at that point Terry Taylor had come back Dusty Rhodes and then by the time you get to 2000 Johnny Ace comes in and ignoring what you think about his current situation he was a really good creative hand and Terry Taylor and Johnny Ace and Dusty Rhodes in 2000 would’ve turned WCW around 1000% but history doesn’t work like that unfortunately.

WCW honestly had like five different points they could’ve turned the ship back around, but every single time they panicked and went right back into the skid.