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What's this doomed to fail shit? WCW was still making money in it's dying day. AOL didn't want to touch pro wrestling, so when they bought up Turner's empire, they decided to ditch WCW. It wasn't doomed to fail. God Jeritron, get over whatever this hatred you have towards WCW is...
As for Bischoff, he was a fantastic president. He did what he needed to do to take a company that was hemmoraging money, and turned it around to make the most of it. Bischoff took the nWo storyline, which is the hottest angle in professional wrestling history, and used that as drawing idea. He then backed up what brought the crowd in with what would keep them there (the Jerichos, Benoits, Guerreros, Mysterios, Malenkos, etc.). Dethroning WWE as the dpominate promotion for over a year isn't some lucky sucker punch. It was a damn well pulled off scheme. But even before nWo, Bisch had visions of what he wanted to do. He took WCW, which was pathedically unorganised, and made it into a nationally touring company. Remember that while some people bitch about how terrible everything was backstage, there product didn't slip much because of it. I truly think that had Bischoff been able to secure a TV deal for Nitro, he could have taken the company and made it a strong thriving promotion today.
I think Bischoff should be working on the business side of WWE, but have little to no creative input. That's my two cents.
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