they dont make 'em like this anymore, a legitimate titan of industry, godspeed billionaire ted
captain planet was a dimes machine
Was he a chud or a normal person?
https://x.com/AEW/status/2052090018756206973AEW mourns the loss of Ted Turner and sends our condolences. A pioneer of TV and founder of TBS & TNT, Turner championed pro wrestling on his networks since the 1970's. AEW proudly continues that tradition, and we dedicate Wednesday Night Dynamite tonight on TBS to his memory.
>>20412267watch Vince keel over now. the only thing he had left was seeing ted die.
reminder ted turner watching AEW and in 2021 famously said that tony khan/AEW were the spiritual successors to WCW
>>20412302Tony Khan: “(Ted Turner) didn't know 1% of what I know about professional wrestling or WCW would still be on TNT/TBS.”
ted turner was what you ideally do if you're a billionaire, which is spend your money on baseball and wrestling
>>20412291I honestly thought this was a parody at first. It’s incredibly poor taste to promote a show by leveraging someone who hasn't even been laid to rest yet. Then again, given Tony’s history of chasing ratings at any cost, maybe I shouldn't be surprised
>>20412311yep and ted agreed with him when he said that
>>20412267Rip Billionaire ted
>>20412311Disgusting and unprofessional.
>>20412324>It’s incredibly poor taste to promote a show by leveraging someone who hasn't even been laid to rest yet.>Then again, given Tony’s history of chasing ratings at any cost, maybe I shouldn't be surprisedFucking this.
ESPN's tribute: Ted Turner, the former owner of the Braves and Hawks who made his mark as a media mogul and a philanthropist, has died at the age of 87.The Atlanta Braves sadly used AI for their tribute, apparently incapable of creating one themselves:https://x.com/Braves/status/2052037035590816064
>>20412311true, Ted was quite literally busy with at least 20 other things, IMPORTANT things I might add, anons might see this quote as a diss but Ted was really that nigga ACTUALLY doing big boss things
>>20412358yeah but it shows Tony as a moron who doesn't understand what happened. Turner lost control of WCW in 1996. he was out of power for the last 4-5 years of WCW's existence. WCW dying had nothing to do with Turner and what Turner knew or didn't know of pro wrestling.
>>20412311The man is barely cold in his grave Tony.
>>20412381what it shows is how easily you get worked
>>20412289do you know what cnn is?
in fact, and Turner said so himself, if he still owned TNT and TBS in 2001 he never would've taken WCW off the air. which would mean either the sale to Fusient (the Bischoff group) would go through or Turner never would've even sold WCW in the first place. but either way it would still be around or at least would've lasted a much longer time than it did anyway.
still no official acknowledgement from WWE
>>20412415This could make or break all of professional wrestling
>>20412415too busy figuring out new ways to scam the wrestlers and fans out of a few more dollars
he died today, May 6. May 6 was the very same day the WWF (World Wrestling Federation) died in 2002. Ted Turner outlived the WWF by exactly 24 years to the day.
May 6 was also the day of The Big Bang that never happened exactly 25 years ago today.
he’s in hell for competing against vince
>>20412267Never cared for this grifter. Rest in piss.-MogMaster
>>20412475Fuck.Losing WCW really was the end of professional wrestling.
How the fuck has Ted not got a sticky
>>20413453Probably the weirdest no-sticky on the board yet
>>20413468did Ole Anderson get one
Didn't know he created cartoon network. Good guy. RIP
>>20413551ted was busy battling the rupert murdoch's of the world, obviously he gave no shit about vince or the HECKARINO wrasslin wars
>>20413597Apparently Ted viewed Vince as a "disgraceful smalltime huckster slimeball" and wouldn't give him any of the attention he desperately craved during those cringy billionaire ted skits
>>20413609kek, what a beast
Ted was genuinely the last cool billionaire. He was the last of a breed that was essentially tycoons who just owned a lot of things. Ted reading some environmental pamphlet and making Captain Planet was based. Ted said fuck it and managed the Atlanta Braves for one game. That's like, the dream of any baseball fan. He did so much for Bison conservation it's not even funny. Billionaires now fucking suck because all they want to do is be immortal while stomping on the necks of normal human beings
>>20413638seemed like a billionaire with passion for things common people care about for sure.i would have funded a bunch of war films where i can have a cameo as one of the officers too.
Rupert Murdoch called Ted Turner “a great American and friend” after his death on Wednesday, despite a decades-long public feud:• The enmity presumably began in 1983 after a sailing race where Turner blamed Murdoch for a collision that cost him the victory (he challenged him to a televised fistfight in Las Vegas)• Things heated up further in 1996, when Murdoch spent over $100M to launch the Fox News Channel as a direct competitor to CNN• Turner compared Murdoch to Hitler — or “the late Fuhrer,” as he put it — to a group of journalists, saying the two employed similar yellow journalism tactics in smearing the opposition• Seven years later, in 2003, Turner took aim at Murdoch once more over his support for the war in Iraq, first challenging him to another fistfight and then branding him a “warmonger”• In a 2019 interview with Variety’s Cynthia Littleton, Turner reiterated that he and Murdoch “have long since made amends”
>>20413551Maybe he didn't have anything bad to say about Vince?
>>20413679
>>20413679they never met in person face to face. they may have spoken on the phone. according to vince they did. but if they did it's likely Ted didn't recall it as it was too insignificant. it's also possible vince lied and made the story up and they never spoke at all.
>>20413698Vince is genuinely the only source for that claim lmao
>>20413700and I believe him
>>20412267RIP billionaire Ted, the bank roller fprvwcw's for 83 weeks of nwo dominance over vince. It was probably a blip on hus wallet he lost and yet it dominated an industry
>>20413733ok but vince's story only makes vince looks stupid and basically a heel to wrestling fans. always thought it was a stupid story and even worse that vince thought it made him come off well
>>20412298Nah. Now he wants to see WWE fail so he can either buy it back point and laugh if TK buys it after ousting him.
>>20413698>>20413700You aewtists are insufferable. Do you really hate Vince more than you hate Trump? That's what it feels like with all your slander and misinformation.Do you know how many cable networks met with? At one point or another, every single one of them. And that's not counting all the same social circles they were apart of. Vince met Ted at least once. Logic dictates as much.The phone call? I'll give you some latitude on. Vince is a worker after all. But Ted does seem like the Good Ol' Boy type that would call Vince directly and give him a heads up. None of what Vince said was disputed by Ted, Bischoff, etc. anyway. You just have VDS.
>>20413753Ted didn't dispute Vince because Ted never gave Vince the time of day. Vince was a small-fry shyster in the eyes of real business moguls
what a picture!!!
>>20412475Fucking retards at AOL ruined this shit. Ted would've just kept it because at the end of the day he had so much money he didn't care. He just liked putting shit he liked. Truly one of the few billionaires with Soul.
>>20413932Ted literally saw the pilot for Space Ghost Coast To Coast and gave it the green light, dude was operating on instinct
>>20413753Lmfaoo Piggy crying.Wrestling was something he put on TV because he liked watching it as a kid and didn't want to lose that timeslot to some other garbage. Ted was already running GCW and the first itteration of WCW. Did he know of Vince? Maybe. But Vince is the only one that tells that story and Turner had bigger fish to fry. Turner succeeded where Vince didn't. He started a multi-media conglomerate under his own name through various networks. He has respect and isn't just "that annoying wrestling dude" to other billionaires, which is what bothers Vince more than anything. All he can do is wrestling, but he hates that.
>>20412475What would the card have been? All I I penis that supposedly Jerry Lawler was going to be there.
>>20412475>big bang>creationretards
Turner considered CNN and TCM to be his greatest accomplishments. I wonder where if it all WCW would rank below those two, if it would be 3rd or what.
it's interesting that Eric Bischoff just compared Ted Turner to Elon Musk which is far more offensive and insulting to Ted than anything Tony Khan ever said about Ted. Bischoff, like McMahon, never misses a chance to be hypocritical
>>20413986>I penisWhat
>>20413986>All I I penis
Bump
>>20412311Ted really didnt give a shit about wrestling other than being a casual fan, he didnt even mention WCW once in his book
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>>20412415Surprised he wasn’t inducted in the hall of fame
>Ted Turner was a wrestling mark who wanted WCW on his network>Gave guarenteed contracts and paid well>Was a pioneer of sports entertainment by having NBA and NFL athletes being regulars in WCW than WWF's programming>The money he spend was pocket change and did not give a fuck>Vince McMahon still seethes for Turner driving him out of business when Vince says he loves to fight.Was WCW actually the good guys?
>>20412401Chud News Network obviously
>Vince vs Turner>Both inherited their company from father>Turner's father loved him than Vince's>Ted Turner and Vince are marks for wrestling>Turner never was embarrassed about it>Vince always hated it and wanted be known for something else than wrasslin>Turner is known for more than WCW>Vince forever known for WWE and being a BBC fetishist>Vince tries to mock and portray Ted as evil billionaire with Billiionaire Ted skits>Ted allegedly found them funny>Vince pussies out due to pressure from USA Network>Ted gives guarenteed money than Vince, making pro-wrestling a better work enviroment>Vince mocks Turner for known by copying things than create new ideas and poaching WWF's talent: Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage>Vince poached WCW talent the entire 90's: Lex Luger, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Mick Foley and Steve Austin>Post WCW fallout Vince brainwashed an entire generation that WCW and Ted Turner were evil and trying to kill his livelihood>Vince buried the WCW talent and WWE-nWo just to spite Turner instead of becoming a richerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9Pq95GVtXg
>>20412289commie chud after he married hanoi jane, normal guy before.
>>204123503 out of 4 AI detecting sites I've tried say it's likely 100% human-written.
>>20413986Holy Freudian slip.
>Ted TurnerOnly thing i remember about this guy outside anything wrestling related is that he cancelled swat katz despite being the no. 1 cartoon show at that time because he got a boner from pic related
>>20416797>>20416760>>20413971Tane the wrestling fig out of your ass it will cure your terminal Vince derangement syndrome
>>20417836Damn Ted was an early furry fag
>>20417836Post the comicYou know the one
bump
>>20412289>Hyper Masculine>Hated Israel >Repopulated a species of Bison so he could enjoy that steak meat >started a wrestling organization bc he thought it was awesome and bought literally every major star Yeah, he was a liberal.
>>20412324a legend in wrestling has passed away, but Tony Khan will carry on
>>20414128>I wonder where if it all WCW would rank below those two, if it would be 3rd or what.i feel like he might have just considered it a passion project vs a business venture
should've been stickied
>>20414128He cared enough since he was actually the main piece that brought Hogan in.Do not listen to all those idiots that try to take credit. It was legit Turner asking Flair if he can reach Hogan. Not Bischoff, Greg Gagne, Eddie Graham or anyone else who tried to take credit. It was Turner and Flair.
>>20421641Vince blocked it.
>>20421667Rrally?
>>20412278>>20412267>>20413638you ever watch old captain planet?>that episode where they literally meet hitler>that episode where linka's cousin OD's on crack>that episode where dougie houser can't play basketball because he got aids from unprotected gay sex>that episode where they go to some themepark and the themepark says it's bad for white people to to have kids but it's good for thirdies to have 10 kids each and when wheeler falls asleep and dreams about banging the russian girl so many times they have like 16 kidsnone of this shit is made up by the way. go and google it, those were actual plots.
>>20413932This. Ted straight up didn't care if he was losing money, he just wanted to watch a wrestling show he owned. He was like tiny except he let someone else have the book where as tiny tries to book shit himself
>>20421667I believe this, Flair is probably the only guy they had at that time who could realistically talk to the hulkster on a personal level.
>>20413638everyone's overspecialized borefests now, it's not just rich people
