Bryan Alvarez essay: How Vince Russo KILLED WCW IN 2000 (From "The Death Of WCW" AudioBook) 

Haha, you can hear him holding it in a few times during this.

Well he was just reading a transcript for the book, so you know he had to restrain some more NSFW thoughts

Gotta be a professional if you're ever gonna get a GOLD BOAT

You can get the book from audible

Is it on RU-vid at all? Or would one have to get it from audible or something?

Not sure about RU-vid. I have the audiobook from Audible personally

@@stutheironman ahh I see, I have read the book a few times but had no clue there was also an audiobook!

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At least for the 10th anniversary version, the book's Audible-exclusive.

Khan is khanman too lol.

Let's hope that he keeps his word, i don't watch AEW that often but if Russo got his hands on it then I'd definitely not watch.

Hopefully Khan keeps his word. If Russo took over, Danielson would wrestle 3 minute matches

@@mwcarolina If Russo took over, DB wouldn't be there....because he'd only work with guys who stand out and aren't skinny, pasty white little 5ft nothing nudnik's...AEW is wank...

@@rampageclover9788 Russo doesn’t like the wrestling part of wrestling. He’s about the story

Yes, I'm sure Bischoff and Russo defended Bischoff and Russo. But the merger was only going to kill it because it wasn't even a potentially profitable venture anymore. Which was due to the low quality of the TV product, which was attracting fewer than 1% of viewers to actually buy the PPVs, meanwhile the company had tens of millions of dollars in committed costs in the next few years.

The merger only meant that Nitro lost its TV slot on TNT. But the shitty booking made sure that the WCW brand was so run down, that no other station would be willing to pick it up, as they lost like 60 million in the last year alone. Had Eric been able to get a new TV deal, he and his media group would've bought WCW before Vince could. But since he couldn't get one, his financial backers backed out of the deal and Eric was forced to let it go.

Here's the thing: had WCW been profitable, would the things that led to the trigger being pulled have actually happened? It's like having to put down a sick puppy, and maintaining that the puppy's death wasn't because of the illness, but because of the vet who put the dog down.

40 second match, simultaneously “go home”

@@_sabathia_5929 To be fair, those 40 seconds have potential.

Yeah that Nitro Reboot episode was really the best WCW show in months, maybe years, such a shame they had no plans for a proper follow-up. It could have had ton of potential

@@Simouno One of the problems during the New Blood vs Millionaire's Club angle was that there was no kind synergy in the angle. It went the approach of Crash TV and throw guys out there with no long term plan. That's why matches were overbooked and the matches were short with trying to get as many from the roster on the TV show. For every one decent angle, there were 10 bad ones.

Wrestling in 2023 is a parody of itself and a cringefest. No one will care enough in 20 years to watch it as a guilty pleasure.

The berlyn gimmick wasn't so bad, they just used that schindlers list sounding theme so everyone immediately thought it was a nazi gimmick, if only they had just used a knockoff of du hast or something like that.

Yeah, it was so much better when Hulk Hogan was selling for Jay Leno or when the Yeti and Dungeon of Doom were running shit. Oh, wait, no it wasn't. It was complete dog shit.

Thanks

& that was when Kevin Sullivan was booking. Look I'm not sucking off Russo but October 99 to January 2000 the ratings were holding in the 3's. The January 10th 2000 Nitro got a 4.1 in the final quarter hour.

Buy the book

I have the book.

I also would love to hear more and I actually bought the book...twice...and I rarely every buy books...in fact, if he read more, I'd probably buy the book a third time lol

You can get it for free on Audible 😉

Hannibal do you have the footage where Kevin Sullivan talks, about the set amount that WCW sold for? He had an interesting take on all that.

He wasn't The Turner executives wanted WCW off their networks. Actually go look at Nitro Guy Evans did actual research this was a bunch of smarks giving their opinion.

@@robkearsy2995 *The Nitro book is B.S, it's an attempt to rewrite the history of WCW so Maggot Bischoff doesn't look like a total clown. Both Alvarez and Meltzer were journalists covering WCW at the time, not someone like Evans who came along twenty years later and interviewed clueless Turner executives who can't remember anything from twenty years ago. Morons like you are the epitome of internet smark douche bags as you think you know better than Alvarez and Meltzer.*

@@robkearsy2995 this book is rumors and more of a hit piece

Sometimes, life isn't a lesson, and you just fail.

Yeah, McMahon has been a great job filtering the last couple decades as the product became worse and worse.

Cause it's all him & RD Reynolds opinion. Guy Evans actually did research.

@@robkearsy2995 Guy Evans book is definitely well researched with facts

If WCW turned a profit and made monster ratings they'd of never let it go. But when they came on with the merger it was already on it's downward slope.

sleazyfellow as per DDP, it was already the highest rated show on their network!

The merger would have killed it no matter what but that doesn't excuse how awful wcw had become. If you enjoyed the Russo shows, well good for you.

Arrhidaios Pydnaean that’s my point exactly

@@sleazyfellow that's what I was thinking. WCW lost millions of dollars right around the time of the merger, so of course they wanted to cut bait.

Hahahahahahahahahahaha

Bro...

Warrior vs Goldberg? To me that is a cursed match. Neither of them can wrestle. But I don't blame you. When we are kids we think stupid ideas are good ideas.

@@Guanaco17 oh look another Russo hater twisting themselves into a knot

Wait, the number 2 company during the hottest wrestling period of all time had better ratings than the #2 now? Not to mention how many homes lose cable every year

You're comparing it to ratings from more than 20 years ago. TV was so different back then, there wasn't a lot of options like now. So many tv shows ratings today would pale in comparison to wcw in 2000.

HA HA HA HA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA See you 100 years from now

Their a billion dollar company you clown. 🤡