Thread: The Trial Of Eric Bischoff (Podcast Question)
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Old 11-01-2014, 06:08 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by SlickyTrickyDamon View Post
Who did more to grow WCW than Bischoff? Nobody. End of story. It's pretty stupid that there has to be a full podcast on an open and shut issue. You guys just must like hearing your own voice to have a stupid topics like these trials.

The last episode about the Invasion was pretty good though.
Bischoff did do more to grow it. And by the time he was done WCW was a firm number 2, they'd run off almost every potential new star they had, handed out the contracts that sapped resources completely, and the company was on its way to losing $15 million in 1999 (which it did). Oh, and he was part of the 2000 Russo comeback of doom that burned through so much money that the parent company, which only two years earlier wanted twice as much first run programming because they were so profitable, wanted them the fuck off the books.

No other network wanted a part of it because the brand was dead, and that's what killed it in the end. Russo was a massive part, but to say Bischoff isn't at least a major part of the ultimate demise is ignorant to reality.
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