Looks like Rise and Fall of WCW production is underway...
 

From PWInsider:

On Eric Bischoff's twitter account, he noted that World Wrestling Entertainment contacted both Ted Turner and former WCW Executive Bill Shaw to take part in interviews for a forthcoming WCW DVD and both turned down the opportunity.

To read Bischoff's comments, visit http://twitter.com/EBischoff.

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To qualify this thread, who and what do you want to be on the DVD?

I dont care

There are two ways they could go about it:
One, they could showcase the amazing talent that they had in the undercard and cast WCW in a good light
Two, they could show how the amazingly talented undercard got to job out to over the hill fading stars and an unbreakable glass ceiling and cast WCW in a bad light.

There were some wonderful things that WCW did, even better things they could have done. If you look back, you can almost see where they should have gone differently. It may have been so drastic that they would still be in business today.

You know what direction they're going to go down and it's the trashing of the product one because they can't get any of the main players of the best years of WCW involved.

I definitly want a 20 minute segement about Sid Vicious twisting his leg around like a car being twisted around a light pole in a brutal accident.

It'll be like the Ultimate Warrior's DVD with better matches.

Bischoff's on Twitter now too? :eek:

Awesome, but I think it will turn out to be a complete bash-fest seeing as Bischoff isn't being apart of it.

Bischoff would have made it awesome.

Bischoff says if you want his side of it, buy Controversy Creates Cash.

Sounds good but as it's a WWE product and WCW was the main rival, I doubt they'll do much to make WCW look half as good as it was.

I wonder if they'll even bother to cover the early years of WCW, or jump straight into the nWo era... in which case what will this really cover that The Monday Night Wars didn't?

I dont care about the DVD. I doubt they'll be able to put together a DVD that will do WCW any justice.

I just hope they dont do some sort of "brand revival" like they did with ECW because of it.

Yea, that's what I was thinking. If they go all the way back, they'd have to call it

The Short Rise

Hogan Enters: The Quick Fall

WCW Rises Again

WCW Falls again and dies

It's called TNA.

I took two books on my holidays last year, one being this and the other being RD Reynold and Bryan Alvarez's The Death of WCW.

I read Bischoff's first, then The Death of WCW, and then read Bischoff's again and laughed all the way through. He's such a mark for himself. I wouldn't trust a word that came out his mouth.

I bet they'll get Hogan and he'll talk all sorts of bullshit.

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They should have come out with this DVD much sooner in my view. Anyhow, having Bischoff and Turner would have made it great. Now they're probably just going to tell the whole thing from the WWE's point of view, and just have ex WCW/current WWE talent (i.e. Jericho, Big Show, maybe Flair) burying it, which they pretty much already did in Monday Night Wars. So I hope they'll be able to come up with something new. It'd be great if they could get Hogan, Nash, Hall, Russo, Bret Hart, Goldberg, and other guys like that, but that's total wishful thinking.

Goldberg

Because it's only fun to maim someone when you don't have to suffer any consequences.

I'm sure they have plenty of archived interviews to use as well. I'd really like to see both Bischoff and Russo participate in this, but obviously neither is in the cards.

goldberg has on his twitter page he ill be on it talking about his achievements.http://www.twitter.com/IFUCKINSUCK

:lol:

From PWInsider:

World Wrestling Entertainment will be releasing "The Rise and Fall of WCW" DVD set on 8/25. The set will be a three disc set.

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So it's officially The Rise and Fall of WCW.

Thinking about it, I can't see how this won't be a "burial".

All the guys that went from WWF (at the time) to WCW will be shown as guys that jumped ship for a bigger paycheck. So the likes of Luger, Savage, Hogan, Nash, Hall, etc will be shown to be over the hill, money grabbers - regardless of the fact that most of those guys were picked up by The 'E years later.

Then we come to the guys that went the other way. The likes of Austin, Jericho, Guerrero, Benoit (OK, maybe not him), etc will be shown to be guys that "WCW couldn't use right" and that WWE "turned into stards".

WCW made a fortune on guys that WWF had made into stars, whilst WWE made new stars out of guys that WCW held down. To be honest, that's a pretty fair summary of events.

It'd be less of a burial if someone was there who would stick up for WCW. Pretty much Bischoff is the only person who does.
It's not like they edited out the things Heyman said in defense of ECW. They even left in parts where he suggested attitude was stolen from ECW.
I think they were pretty fair with that dvd.
They will be a bit more biased with this, because they're so close to it. I do think that getting someone from the other side is important though.

Vince always had a good working relationship with ECW though. And lets not forget that ECW were never really a legit threat to WWF/E. WCW nearly put Vince out of business.

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Wow, one of the biggest ass-kissing yes men in wrestling history has a Twatter account.