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LOL, this is why WCW failed. Look at that list and tell me who on it is worth a million damn dollars. Hogan and Savage, that's it. Stevie Ray? Horrible wrestler, terrible personality. Ditto Buff Bagwell, Syd Vicious and the rest apart from Booker T. He is awesome but not worth $1M.

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I agree and disagree. WCW failed because turner lost control of being the program director for TNT, TBS, and CNN after the TW/AOL merger. If he had ever put someone in charge of WCW that knew wrestling Vince wouldn't have a fed right now. Ted could've spent til the cows came home and still not have put a dent in his insane fortune

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Personally I think the Russo-Ferrera era killed it dead. I'm pretty sure this began before the merger, but I can look into it.

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it nose dived the ratings for sure, but even at its crappiest in 99, WCW was still getting a better rating then it was back in 92 and 93. If Turner had never lost control of the television programming, we'd still have WCW. March 15, 2001 is a very sad day in wrestling history as that was the last time in 30 years that wrestling played on a turner network. It all started in 1970 with Georgia Championship wrestling then went onto Crockett Wrestling and then WCW(after Jim Crockett Jr sold his company to TUrner). BIll Watts had his mid south wrestling on there for a couple of years and Vince himself had the WWF on TBS or TNT for a period of time in 84