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Ever since the Hogan/Eric news broke, I've seen countless people say that the AOL/Time Warner merger is what killed WCW and I can't take reading this misinformed babbling any long. For once and for all: No one single thing killed WCW, period.
I could list off a ton of reasons that killed that killed the company, but trust me, it wasn't the merger that killed it. By the time that happened the company was long since dead. The wrestling had gone downhill, far too many workers were either unmotivated or gone, the writing was atrocious, the NWO and the old timers had choked the life out of the company, and giving so many wrestlers creative control among other things.
Also, I've read that Vince had nothing to do with it. Well that's wrong too. When people started changing the channel, they were happy with what they saw on WWF and kept watching. It was Vince that authorized all that stuff and had final creative say. People toss around words like Vince Kool-Aid and stuff like that and I'm sorry, but it makes you look completely uneducated and foolish. No, Vince and the WWF didn't win by themselves, but they damn sure had a lot to do with it. It was WCW that made people quit watching Nitro, but it was Vince that made them keep watching Raw.
Anyway, once more, the merger flat out didn't kill WCW. It put WCW out of its misery. Also, Vince didn't kill WCW, but he capitalized on its blunders. If anyone would like to try to prove me wrong on this, please do, but I'm just very tired of seeing all this incorrect material being thrown around here and I thought the record should be set straight.
I could list off a ton of reasons that killed that killed the company, but trust me, it wasn't the merger that killed it. By the time that happened the company was long since dead. The wrestling had gone downhill, far too many workers were either unmotivated or gone, the writing was atrocious, the NWO and the old timers had choked the life out of the company, and giving so many wrestlers creative control among other things.
Also, I've read that Vince had nothing to do with it. Well that's wrong too. When people started changing the channel, they were happy with what they saw on WWF and kept watching. It was Vince that authorized all that stuff and had final creative say. People toss around words like Vince Kool-Aid and stuff like that and I'm sorry, but it makes you look completely uneducated and foolish. No, Vince and the WWF didn't win by themselves, but they damn sure had a lot to do with it. It was WCW that made people quit watching Nitro, but it was Vince that made them keep watching Raw.
Anyway, once more, the merger flat out didn't kill WCW. It put WCW out of its misery. Also, Vince didn't kill WCW, but he capitalized on its blunders. If anyone would like to try to prove me wrong on this, please do, but I'm just very tired of seeing all this incorrect material being thrown around here and I thought the record should be set straight.