What If Eric bischoff bought WCW first?

[DA NEMISIS]

For all of you who have watched the "Monday Night Wars" (which in my book is still as good watch any day). You will remember the part where Eric was saying about him receiving a phone call that "the deal is off". He wasn't successful in buying WCW.

Now this has been burning a question in my mind. What IF Eric did purchase WCW?
- Would it still be called that?
- What stupid or ground breaking ideas would be channeled through each week on tv/ppv?
- What would have happened to WWE?
- Would we see a new leader in the ratings?

Have fun, see if you can answer these questions and even ask some of your own? Lets get this ball rolling

Da Nemisis

[Burnham]

so let me get this right, bischoff tried buying wcw! what with? did he really have that much money? look what happened to wcw when bischoff was there, there was just chaos all of the time

[DA NEMISIS]

He had some financial backers to purchase it, you really need to watch the 'Monday Night Wars' DVD. Vince bought the Video Library for WCW, nothing else. Eric said "without the library, WCW was worth ...20 bucks". (pretty sure he said it that way)

[Desertrage]

There is only one reason to why Bischoff didn't buy WCW, and that Vince did. It wasn't about the money, and who could afford to buy WCW. Bischoff didn't buy WCW because it would had been a waste. It was clear the employees didn't want to work there anymore. They were leaving to go to WWE, and other promotions. Vince bought WCW because he wanted to hang onto the history of WCW with all the talent that was working for him at the time that came from there, and knowing all the talent he could get from WCW. I can't say Vince bought WCW to end the Monday Night War, because he didn't have to buy it for that reason. He could had just let WCW die without no one buying it, and the Monday Night Wars still would had ended!

[DA NEMISIS]

desertrage said:

There is only one reason to why Bischoff didn't buy WCW, and that Vince did. It wasn't about the money, and who could afford to buy WCW. Bischoff didn't buy WCW because it would had been a waste. It was clear the employees didn't want to work there anymore. They were leaving to go to WWE, and other promotions. Vince bought WCW because he wanted to hang onto the history of WCW with all the talent that was working for him at the time that came from there, and knowing all the talent he could get from WCW. I can't say Vince bought WCW to end the Monday Night War, because he didn't have to buy it for that reason. He could had just let WCW die without no one buying it, and the Monday Night Wars still would had ended!

Dude, have u actually "WATCHED" the DVD, I have AND researched into it. He had financial backing to purchase it. Vince only bought it cause he wanted to end the competition. term used "monopolise" it. Nothing more, nothing less.

[Desertrage]

so basicly Vince bought something that was dying any way just to kill it? stupid if you ask me!

[DA NEMISIS]

personally, it is stupid. But in a business sense. It genius, why let something go on that 'could' overthrow him when he can buy it and destroy it personally.

[DA NEMISIS]

PLUS also, he can make a bucket load more money JUST off the video library and merchandise alone. (forgot that b4) lol

[Desertrage]

I still think it was Vince's dumbest move ever! think of this. Vince, and the WWE only decided to do something with the purchase of WCW long enough to bring in Ric Flair, so from when they started it, to when they killed it themselves, it was only around for 5 months.

You wanna talk about them making a bucket load money just off the video library, and merchandise? lets talk about that shall we?

What's going through my head right now. I personally think it would be hard for them to market them, when WCW has been dead for 6 1/2 years. The smart thing would had been to keep it around for the video library, and to sell the merchandise.

Lets talk about 2001.....something else happened in that year just before Vince purchased WCW. Vince's dream of running his own football league was shown as a joke. I am talking about the XFL. I am thinking maybe Vince over thought this XFL thing, and didn't put much thought to buying WCW.

They only thing that makes sense to me is....Vince has more money than brains!

[Def Leppard Van Halen]

In 2001, the merger between AOL and Time Warner took place. The reason Bischoff didn't buy WCW was because, they would not sell him the TV timeslots WCW had on TBS and TNT, for Nitro and Thunder. When WWF bought WCW that March, they got everything, except the TV time and certain contracts.

[Alpha Clash]

Aug 9, 2008 18:33:55 GMT -5 Def Leppard Van Halen said:

In 2001, the merger between AOL and Time Warner took place. The reason Bischoff didn't buy WCW was because, they would not sell him the TV timeslots WCW had on TBS and TNT, for Nitro and Thunder. When WWF bought WCW that March, they got everything, except the TV time and certain contracts.

Exactly.....they deal of the sale was if Bischoff and his backers wanted WCW....they could have the name, the rings, the video library....but no TV time was included neither was any wrestler under AOL/Time Warner contract (Booker T, Scott Steiner, Animal, Goldberg, Nash, Savage, Sting, Hogan...ya get the idea!). Without the television time, WCW was worth 20 bucks!

[NWA AWA 1]

A shame WCW got to that point. Very true on the tv time slots. Let's face it with the TBS time slots and maybe buying Sting's, Steiner's and other long time WCW talent contracts, it may have slowly come back to where it was. Storylines that made sense and developing and keeping young talented wrestlers would have helped. Remember they let young stars like Steve Austin leave the company, should have kept them and let Hogan and his pals hit the bricks instead. Remember Flair dropped the title on many occasions for the company, Hogan rarely let anyone better him in a match.