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My take on the subject is that Eric Bischoff had a hand in the eventual demise of WCW.
I understand why he did what he did to get the top talent. He needed them in order to compete with the WWE and have a real cahnce of winning the fight. But you can't give creative control to guys like Hogan, Savage, Hall or Nash and not expect any problems.
In my mind I think that Bischoff's biggest mistake was alienating his real workers. Raven/Benoit/Malenko/Saturn/Jericho/Guerrero. The real workers of WCW who cared about it but were driven to the point that they didn't even want to show up for work. I'm sure there were others who didn't like working for WCW but didn't announce cause they feared for their jobs and weren't sure if they could just head over to the WWE. When these guys don't want to work for you, then he was in trouble. Cause then all he had left with is a bunch of guys who are so demoralised that they don't want to work for him and guys who weren't too interested in giving it their all and were more concerned in getting their paycheck.
The lack of internal organisation was also ridiculous. I couldn't believe what Booker T said in the Monday Night Wars DVD about how somethimes Nitro would be starting and people wouldn't know what they were doing for the night. I couldn't believe what Bret Hart said in a shoot interview about the night that he returned to WCW and with only 30 seconds to go before he's supposed to go out, he's talking with Bischoff about what he's supposed to say in his comeback interview.
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