Daily reminder that WCW in 2000 sold out the Brisbane Entertainment Centre the day tickets went on sale. And it was a delayed Nitro taping too not even livePresent AEW less hot than WCW at its lowest point in 2000.Let that sink in.
Still Vince
>>16767639Wasn't the attendance for WCW doing relatively okay in spite of the terrible tv ratings in 2000? It went down because of an executive committee's decision to pull the plug, not because it was making no money. It could have continued under a different banner had it not been bought by Vince.
>>167676392000 was still the peak of wrestling as a whole
>>16768415No, they were literally getting outdrawn by ECW in their final days. They were just always weirdly popular in Australia, so even in their dying days they could fill Aussie arenas while in America they couldn't give tickets away.
>>16768415Attendance is irrelevant when WCW in 2000 lost more money than 2019-2024 of AEW combined.
>>16768434>>16768437Thanks for the clarification. Good on the production team for making their arenas seem more packed than they really were. I watched Souled Out 2000 the other day and it looked alright.
>>16768442Wcw in 2000 was still more popular than aew has ever been by a large magnitude.
>>16768415No. They were averaging less than 2K paid by the end of 2000. They just gave away a shit ton of tickets to get the arenas to look halfway decent.
>>16768415They were bleeding money and were drawing hilariously bad crowds and ppv buys. Turner execs were pulling funny shit but don't act like Bischoff spending and booking them into a financial hole didn't play a factor.
>>16768437lol no
>>16767639You're comparing apples to oranges.
>>16767639No 81k?
>>16769221The main people who try to say WCW was just killed for no reason are the ones who fucked it up the worst. What fucking company, ever, would keep a branch open that is paying someone over a million dollars a year to sit at home? And that is just Hulk Hogan, you have guys like Bobby Eaton who were on contract without appearing anywhere doing anything for a decade. The whole thing was a circus but it was really those mean Turner execs, for realsies
