Bruce Prichard on WWE buying WCW 

Even if Vince were to tell the truth, no one would believe him anyway because everyone already believes that he'd just Kayfabe it. What's the point?

I mean...did you see how they handled WCW? Is this a surprise?

@@somegamer7958 they did what they needed to do with WCW. There was no way they could've kept both companies. I'm talking about one pay-per-view. Not an entire company.

@@babayagaslobbedaknobba They needed to bury WCW? That's what was needed? My point still stands. They're idiots. So of course they wouldn't have the brains to use WCW's best PPV

Skip Bayless. Conrads voice not prichards

It seems weird for a guy loving Pat Patterson....

@M Harris you're fucking weird

It's his life,he doesn't do nothing else apart from wrestling.so he do remember it

I also remember every word people say

My ex wife had an uncanny knack of remembering everything I ever said

I think he's about half full of shit honestly.

@@thewaker34 then why does he choose not to talk about certain things or that he can't remember certain things? If he's just making stuff up why wouldn't he do it for everything?

Ted Turner stop caring about wrestleing all he cared about was time Warner cable Vince could never compete with Ted Turner he let Vince win

@@jesusaguilar5735 Sure he did buddy..... The merger between Time Warner and AOL was the final blow for WCW along with poor ratings and dwindling audiences. WCW was taken off because of the merger between the 2 companies but it was already failing before that. It wasn't Ted's network anymore and he lost a lot of money because of the merger. "Ted let Vince win" Don't be a mark. Ted never managed WCW, it was Bischoff and the other executives. Ted was the owner but he didn't run the show like Vince did the WWF. Ted wasn't in the battle, it was Bischoff. All of this is well documented.

@@pikkon899 Ted Turner had the money to destroy Vince with nwo

@@pikkon899 your the mark not me all Ted Turner cared about tbs and let wcw was his toy dumbass and he got tired of playing with it and just threw it away I'm 32 years old and been watching wrestleing all my life so fuck off

@@jesusaguilar5735 Yeah, and? Again, he didn't run the show, it was Bischoff and the other executives. Everyone knows Ted had more money than Vince. Ted wasn't just wrestling, he owned television networks. Vince was all Wrestling and that's his game. Prior to the merger, WCW was already failing. Don't be a mark and just move on.

Watch the WCW documentary and I believe Jericho says he could have bought it himself. Bischoff’s last gasp was to get a group of investors to buy it. Almost had it too but the deal fell through

Put the comic books down, come up out of the basement, ask your dad for $100 dollars so you can go get laid

Was actually earlier before that and single-handedly ruined Toonami and cartoon Network with CN real showing live action shows on a network that specifically zeros in on cartoons!

And Bischoff who knows better than anyone of this matter pretty much said that after the AOL merger they were less and less interested in keeping ''Wrasslin'' on their TV stations. Who knows if Vince could've gotten a slot on their stations. It's a real shame Eric didn't manage to grab that deal before Vince got it.

but the hands on the clock keep spinnin to slow

Rap is crap

but the hands on my cock keep spinnin too slow

But the hand on the clock keeps spinning too slow

@@markmullins132 and i cant wait to be alone with my baby toniiiiight.

I mean come on, What else would he say?

Because the offer to them would have been $8-$10 million. In his book (and other places), Bischoff opined that WCW without TV was not worth anything.

They had the money, but no tv and without tv "WCW was worth--2 BUCKS!"

bichoff and harvey productions were going to buy wcw, but no cable tv network was interested in wcw at that time.

Not correct steel. Bischoff was going to buy it under the assumption Turner networks would still carry it. They were cancelling it no matter what so Bischoff pulled out of the deal.

Lol thats what i said no other networks want it

It wouldn't have made it without a TV deal.

that was bischoff's initial plan. Eric saw the writing on the wall and he and some other investors put together a proposal to acquire WCW from Turner Sports, take it off tv for a few weeks, then relaunch on TNT as an independent production. The issue was that AOL/Time-Warner refused to air any more wrestling. Bischoff could have still bought it, but would have been faced with the delimma of dropping several million dollars for what was basically a production company and then having to negotiate a deal with another network (which could have taken months or years). So he said screw it and walked away. AOL then cut it loose, and WCW as a property was declared bankrupt which triggered a ruling from the WWF v WCW copyright infringement suit from 96 where Vince sued WCW over Scott Hall maintaining his 'Razor Ramon' persona. In that settlement ruling, if WCW ever went bankrupt Vince would get first dibbs on all properties. So yes, Vince buried the WCW talent. He was never going to put over gimmicks he didn't create. But that's not to say he wouldn't have tried to salvage it if Nitro and Thunder had kept their time-slots. But as far as using his own time slot to promote individual WCW talent over his own guys who stuck with him, that was almost certainly never going to happen on a large scale.

@@maxdecphoenix Jamie Kellner is a hellspawn tbh.

I am not sure. Nash and Russo had done so much damage

The problem was there was no TV. AOL killed WCW. They didnt want wrestling on those channels when they merged with Time Warner

I haven't thought of it, but is Reality of Wrestling using one?

@@pigs18 yes. Vince gave two WCW rings to The Undertaker. Taker, in turn, gave one of the rings to Booker T. Booker T and The Undertaker are both from Houston, Texas.

Vince only bought the tapes. Nothing else.

@@salvagemonster3612 Uh no, he bought WCW itself. He may have only wanted it for the archive, but he bought the whole thing.

That has always been such a silly trope that’s fun to say for the cameras. In a world where Flair did buy it, he wouldn’t have had any way to monetize it. All it included were a few rings and the tape library with the IP. It had no TV or talent included. And that’s where the actual costs come in. It’s a fun line to say but if one ever looked at what the business actually was they’d quickly see it’s silly.

World RUSTLING Federation

Vince made it clear he only wanted the library. No rings, trucks, contracts, chairs, signs, merchandise etc etc. t was a smart move. He could make all that investment back in one year selling tapes

@@salvagemonster3612Yes, it was a very good investment for the library alone.

@@salvagemonster3612 what do you mean library

Darrin H. - I'm Sure A Long Time Ago

oh yeah i know .. was just being a smart alec lol sorry

I think they made it back on the nwo t-shirts alone lol

Who cares

Sean johnson *too

Such a stupid take. Completely ignoring contracts, finances, and personal relationships

@@Jhoncena22 Vince spent tens of millions of dollars on the XFL. He had enough money to buy the contracts. He just didn't want to

@@hermonymusofsparta that’s not how it works but I’m glad you have a superficial understanding of everything.

He didn’t choose to not buy out every deal because it wasn’t possible, he chose not to because it wasn’t practical long term. You have to consider that the guys who didn’t come in right away had large money remaining to stay home. A lot of them realistically had no interest to return prior to then. Even if he offered to match it dollar for dollar would most people choose to work for that same money or sit home and rest for it? So in a hypothetical world where he did buy all those contracts to have them come in right away he’d have had to pay them well above what they would have been getting to make it worth foregoing the chance to take some time and rest. Then factor in the long and short term business impact doing that would’ve had. You’d make all your current guys upset, because you’d be shelling out well above what they’re making to bring in the guys who tried to put you out of business. So there isn’t just the cost of doing it financially but also the cost on morale. Then factor that you sharply increase the pay scale of your roster. All the top guys you have now who aren’t being guaranteed the amount you’d have to guarantee the WCW guys are going to want the same. And so now you’ve increased the guarantee scale by 4x going forward. All for a storyline you aren’t even sure will be successful. And in the end, despite it not being what everyone hoped, it was financially successful. It did the most buys of any non-WM PPV ever. And they didn’t have to drastically change their business to make it happen.

@@hermonymusofsparta that’s not how it works. Those guyhad contracts with Turner, not WCW. They couldn’t make them come to WWE. That’s not how contracts work.

turner didnt sell wcw. aol-time warner sold wcw. they wanted to get rid of the property ASAP.

So the Scott hall Nash invasion won then! Way to go vince

He paid (an estimated) 2-4 million for (basically) a tape library and the rights to the name wcw. That was all that was for sale. No one else really had the platform to use that. This isnt complicated nor does it call for conspiratorial debate.

Ted didn’t have any control anymore. Ted didn’t make any deals. Vince only wanted the library and nothing else. Thus the low bid. Vince also knew they needed money and the board needed the cash. No back door about it. Just good business decisions

according to the Wall Street Journel, wWE paid just over $2.5 million for the WCW Trademarks and Video Library, They didn't buy rings, lights etc, apparently it was all in the price. Chris Jericho claims he could have purchased WCW back in 2001

@@DrDM87 Thanks for the info.

I also think political correctness has hurt it even worse.

Oh yeah? Well I thought the WWE NY restaurant fucking sucked. We went there back in April of 2000 to catch their PPV that month we ordered some drinks and apps for the table they had wings, chicken fingers, quesadillas, mozzarella sticks, you know shit like that. All of the food was sub par AT BEST. The only good thing they had was the store. I was able to buy all kinds of t-shirts and take them home with me rather than having to wait for them to arrive. At the time I lived overseas l didn’t move to the US till 2001 so whenever you’d order WWE merchandise online it would take sometimes 2 months to arrive.

When this happened, I was hoping for one night Raw, WCW, and ECW shows on separate nights a week but what he did was put the WCW guys in front of a pro WWE crowd that totally shit on the idea of a WCW product, THEN they go and put ECW on Syfy and give us Sandman beating the shit out of a zombie! What a joke

Mark Terry nope, WCW, had many fantastic pay per view events, rivaling ANYTHING WWF had at the time

WCW 4 LIFE.

Mark Terry, OH F#CK No.

I'll watch any ppv of WCW for 96 and 97 and 98. Seems like after early 99 they just went to complete shit

I just watch the pay-per-views and specials no need to relieve

Uh, Yes it is. It’s not the “last” wcw logo used but yes it was one of the logos they used. It literally takes about 4 seconds to look it up and see for yourself.

Yes, and no. It's complicated but for legal reasons there were TWO WCWs after the sale. The one AOL owned had to keeping paying off the guaranteed contracts and held various contracts (toys/video games) and anything WWE didn't want (like the office building).. The WCW that WWE owned (WCW,Co.?) controlled all the character rights, the tape library, belts, and the rings. That is the logo of the latter entity.