The Meltzer observer reviews I’ve been reading were a great insight at the time as to what was going on regarding the sale of WCWsennafan24 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:25 pmI think WCW would have imploded eventually, even if the WWF's boom didn't occur and their business declined to the point where they went under. I suspect that Bischoff and co would have carried on booking the same acts in prominent spots to even decreasing returns (Hogan, NWO, etc). I think they would have always fumbled with Goldberg' at some point too.
That said, while Jamie Kellner (CEO of Turner Broadcasting) didn't want WCW shows shown on Time Warner stations, and Brad Siegal (Turner Executive in charge of WCW) also wanted Time Warner to get rid of it by 2000, the story goes that Vince and a former Turner executive close to Siegal conspired to ensure WCW shows were cancelled on Turner networks and for the promotion to be sold to Vince for a relatively small sum. There were apparently higher bidders (Bischoff) who would have kept the company up and running on other networks into the 2000s, at least for a while -https://www.ewrestlingnews.com/editoria ... esponsible.
So I guess it's possible had that WCW won the war, and Vince also gone under, that WCW would still be around today with different owners.
Mad to think they were going to sell it off to Vince for as little as possible