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[#1-norm-fan]

I don’t think Vince going national and killing the territories is what actually fucked up the business. Someone else may have handled the situation better in the long run. Or maybe not. We’ll never know. We do know what Vince did though. He built his “sports entertainment” empire at the expense the wrestling business.

No one else may have had the short-term vision to bring it to the highs it’s seen but would they also bring it to the lows? By any metrics that can be compared less people care about wrestling now than maybe ever before. And that happened while Vince was king.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Originally Posted by #1-norm-fan I don’t think Vince going national and killing the territories is what actually fucked up the business. Someone else may have handled the situation better in the long run. Or maybe not. We’ll never know. We do know what Vince did though. He built his “sports entertainment” empire at the expense the wrestling business. No one else may have had the short-term vision to bring it to the highs it’s seen but would they also bring it to the lows? By any metrics that can be compared less people care about wrestling now than maybe ever before. And that happened while Vince was king.

Not as much as Vince, but Bischoff handed Vince a wrestling monopoly on a platter. He wasn’t the only one who helped run WCW into the ground, but he got it healthy again just to make it sick.

But I think the nature of national television, international television and the internet was always going to hurt wrestling per capita because of exposure. You can only see something so many times before it starts to have a dampened impact.