Zoomer here. I'm watching Reliving the War on youtube and it showed Bischoff calling in to the March 19th Nitro to basically say the following week will be the last. Was the general public/IWC aware that WCW was being bought leading up to the last Nitro?
>>19850812Yes. But we didn't find out the WWF bought it until the day off in the morning. I remember reading it on 411mania Monday morning. Some people on forums still didn't believe it until they went live.
>>19850931Were there rumors at all floating around in February or January?
>>19850812>>19850931>>19851022shut the fuck up nerds
>>19851022NTA but no rumors of a WWF buyout at all, no. Vince McMahon's purchase of WCW and it's assets was a closely guarded secret The rumor mill that I recall was that some company Eric Bischoff started was going to purchase WCW, move production of TV to Vegas, and either negotiate a new TV deal with Warner or try elsewhere, but that all fell through
>>19851022>>19851046Yeah the biggest rumors going around was Bischoff buying it with a consortium. We legit didn't find out Vince bought until that Monday morning.
>>19851193didn't think it was losing the tv spots either. i expected turner to remain in control after the merger with aol time warner & was just selling wcw because he had new companies to focus on. eric buying wcw & keeping the tv spots and ted feuding with netscape, newsweek & paramount instead of wwf.
>>19850812>I'm watching Reliving the War on youtubeHow can anyone listen to that faggot's accent for more than two seconds?
WCW's big downfall came from pushing that nepobaby faggot Jeff Jarrett as world champion
