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**PureHatred** · 05-01-2005, 04:08 PM

Well, this is all a huge "what if." Realistically, ECW and WCW were so far in debt that it would've taken a minor miracle to keep those companies alive. Eric Bischoff had investors lined up to purchase WCW, but they disappeared once it was made public that Turner didn't want them on their networks.

And ECW was just...so..well, put it this way: if WWE hadn't bailed ECW out Paul Heyman's grandchildren would've been paying his debt.

So any discussion of WCW surviving assumes a new investment group, a new TV deal, and the fact that many of the more "known" indy guys - Paul London, AJ Styles, Chris Daniels, etc - probably would've ended up there eventually.

You take into account who the WCW still had under contract, who was available after Turner bought them out, and who ended up in WWE and TNA because there was nowhere else to go....anything is possible.

05-01-2005, 04:08 PM	#15
PureHatred Instant Credibility Posts: 2,979	Well, this is all a huge "what if." Realistically, ECW and WCW were so far in debt that it would've taken a minor miracle to keep those companies alive. Eric Bischoff had investors lined up to purchase WCW, but they disappeared once it was made public that Turner didn't want them on their networks. And ECW was just...so..well, put it this way: if WWE hadn't bailed ECW out Paul Heyman's grandchildren would've been paying his debt. So any discussion of WCW surviving assumes a new investment group, a new TV deal, and the fact that many of the more "known" indy guys - Paul London, AJ Styles, Chris Daniels, etc - probably would've ended up there eventually. You take into account who the WCW still had under contract, who was available after Turner bought them out, and who ended up in WWE and TNA because there was nowhere else to go....anything is possible.