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Post by Sickness Rising on Jun 11, 2005 15:08:05 GMT -5
Hey RD, found this at wrestlingobserver.com, in an interview with Kevin Nash. Does it mean anything to you?
Q: You’ve been criticized for your booking in WCW. Was there anything you would do over again? Nash: “”It would be nice to get some guys on the roster where you would have creative control. Eric Bischoff was under astronomical pressure from the higher-ups when AOL came in. I’ve said a million times to people, and I want to say this to the people who wrote the Rise and Fall of WCW, that people in the wrestling business live in a wrestling bubble when they look at WCW. Time-Warner/Aol stock went from 70 to 17. Things were getting cut off. Anything showing red was basically gotten rid of. They’ve got a new CEO and he’s turned around Time-Warner.
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Post by Van Hagar on Jun 11, 2005 18:12:30 GMT -5
Yes Kevin, but what about your booking?
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Post by tamuthetongantiger on Jun 11, 2005 19:59:15 GMT -5
Yes, they were cutting losses and if WCW had been even breaking even, it would have surived the AOT/TimeWarner era, but... it was such a small part of the conglomerate's business that it had nothing at all to do with the AOL/TimeWarner stock price.
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Post by THE Dinobot on Jun 12, 2005 5:25:34 GMT -5
Who wrote The Rise and Fall of WCW?
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Post by rdreynolds on Jun 12, 2005 9:14:58 GMT -5
Hey RD, found this at wrestlingobserver.com, in an interview with Kevin Nash. Does it mean anything to you? Q: You’ve been criticized for your booking in WCW. Was there anything you would do over again? Nash: “”It would be nice to get some guys on the roster where you would have creative control. Eric Bischoff was under astronomical pressure from the higher-ups when AOL came in. I’ve said a million times to people, and I want to say this to the people who wrote the Rise and Fall of WCW, that people in the wrestling business live in a wrestling bubble when they look at WCW. Time-Warner/Aol stock went from 70 to 17. Things were getting cut off. Anything showing red was basically gotten rid of. They’ve got a new CEO and he’s turned around Time-Warner. I would assume that he was talking about Death of WCW, since obviously he knows about it. My counter point would be that WCW had, just a year or so earlier, been MAKING money. Due to a bunch of stupidity that was no one but those in charge of WCW's fault, they wound up losing money, to the tune of losing more money in ONE YEAR than they had during the rest of the company's existance. Trust me, if WCW had been making money at that point, any money, they wouldn't have been axed. RD
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Post by Goldenbane on Jun 16, 2005 12:53:03 GMT -5
I love Kevin Nash!! His ability to mix up time frames and avoid personal fault are nearly on par with Hulk Hogan himself!
First, from what I've read in WCW and remember...having lived through it...Nash was booker and making stupid and horrendous money losing decisions at LEAST 2 or 3 years before the Time Warner deal was even in the works! Before that he was comfortably "in" with Hogan and Bichoff...both of whom were more than willing to listen to him at any and every point in time (save when he and Hogan had a falling out...but that was some time later.) I got nothing personal against Nash...but he's really got to keep his facts straight.
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Post by CaptainRon on Jun 16, 2005 14:53:09 GMT -5
[quote author=tiredcasanova41 board=rdreynolds thread=1118520485 post=1118520485 I would assume that he was talking about Death of WCW, since obviously he knows about it. My counter point would be that WCW had, just a year or so earlier, been MAKING money. Due to a bunch of stupidity that was no one but those in charge of WCW's fault, they wound up losing money, to the tune of losing more money in ONE YEAR than they had during the rest of the company's existance. Trust me, if WCW had been making money at that point, any money, they wouldn't have been axed. RD Hear, hear, R.D. WCW wasn't getting cut off because it was successful. The WWF's peak of business was from 1998 to 2001, I think it is safe to say (from the beginning of the Mike Tyson angle which started to turn business around to just after WrestleMania X-7 and the beginning of the InVasion, where people started to lose interest). If WCW was pulling down the kind of ratings, merchandising revenue and gates that the WWF was making at that time, no company would've set them loose. I haven't read the Death of WCW book yet (shame on me, I know), so I'm sure this is in there, but one of the reasons why WCW started to die was because Bischoff couldn't book. In a Prodigy chat circa 1997, someone complained to Bischoff that every Nitro ended the same way--with an nWo beatdown. Bischoff's response: "Well, considering the ratings we're getting, yeah, I guess we're doing something wrong." The thing about booking a feud is that, eventually, the face has to get the upper hand. The fans wanted Sting, Flair, the Horsemen, Bret Hart, et al to take it to the nWo. Never happened. The guys who had Bischoff's ear--Hogan, Nash, Hall, etc.--forgot one important thing: THIS BUSINESS IS A WORK. Hmmm...maybe somebody ought to clue Hunter in to that fact, as well.
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Post by sgfish on Jun 17, 2005 15:20:57 GMT -5
At the very least, Nash seems to understand the first law of a**h***ry: If you must be an a**h***, be a funny one.
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Post by Phoenix on Jun 18, 2005 3:09:49 GMT -5
well said Captain Ron
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