PWD 606: Bliss Your Heart

[Stargazer Rex]

I'm having some weird de ja vu here.

 

[Darth Nevets]

WWF's end of fiscal 2001 report (released 7/28) notes that all of the intellectual properties and assets of WCW including the trade name, tape library and other intangible assets were sold by AOL- Time Warner for a staggeringly low $2.5 million.
This is despite an offer from Bischoff/Fusient Media Group for $48.3 million, just days prior to the sale to WWF.
The Fusient offer included a $5 million deposit - so, even if the deal had collapsed, TBS would have picked up double what they've now got from Vince. Moreover, Fusient had agreed to take over every contract - relieving AOL-Time Warner of more than $15 million in salary payouts.
Instead, as thing now stand, Time Warner will be paying Goldberg more in one year than all the money they got from the sale of WCW.

Brad Siegel was buddies with Stu Snyder (president and COO of WWF at the time).

As bad as this is, it was only a drop in the bucket of the merger. In 2002 they posted a 98.7 billion loss, the biggest of all time. They lost 55 the previous year. WCW was a failure, but it was like fretting over nice silverware on the Titanic. Turner actually thought they were doing WCW a solid by giving them 2 million a year to produce television.

As bad as a historian as Bischoff is, he was great at running a wrestling company. He had several great ideas, managed talent expertly, and was a huge part of wrestling's last golden age. There were two mergers that screwed him, first Turner being bought by Time Warner (who wanted WCW in 1998 to be WWF in 1984) who only bought his properties to form an ultra merger with AOL (who didn't want wrestling under any circumstance).

As an aside AT&T actually has formally acquired Time Warner for only 85 billion in 2017.

 

[Stargazer Rex]

<Lmaoo>

 

[My Spot]

Pretty sure that's according to anyone watching, particularly now since that's where the B&V reviews are at.

Doesn't matter though, still put butts in the seats and eyes on the product.

 

[lakersfan45]

@Dusty Rhodes show is some sign of life

 

[lakersfan45]

As bad as this is, it was only a drop in the bucket of the merger. In 2002 they posted a 98.7 billion loss, the biggest of all time. They lost 55 the previous year. WCW was a failure, but it was like fretting over nice silverware on the Titanic. Turner actually thought they were doing WCW a solid by giving them 2 million a year to produce television.

As bad as a historian as Bischoff is, he was great at running a wrestling company. He had several great ideas, managed talent expertly, and was a huge part of wrestling's last golden age. There were two mergers that screwed him, first Turner being bought by Time Warner (who wanted WCW in 1998 to be WWF in 1984) who only bought his properties to form an ultra merger with AOL (who didn't want wrestling under any circumstance).

As an aside AT&T actually has formally acquired Time Warner for only 85 billion in 2017.

Get dis shit ouYa here

 

[My Spot]

As bad as this is, it was only a drop in the bucket of the merger. In 2002 they posted a 98.7 billion loss, the biggest of all time. They lost 55 the previous year. WCW was a failure, but it was like fretting over nice silverware on the Titanic. Turner actually thought they were doing WCW a solid by giving them 2 million a year to produce television.

As bad as a historian as Bischoff is, he was great at running a wrestling company. He had several great ideas, managed talent expertly, and was a huge part of wrestling's last golden age. There were two mergers that screwed him, first Turner being bought by Time Warner (who wanted WCW in 1998 to be WWF in 1984) who only bought his properties to form an ultra merger with AOL (who didn't want wrestling under any circumstance).

As an aside AT&T actually has formally acquired Time Warner for only 85 billion in 2017.

Yeah, the Time Warner thing in the summer of 98 really hurt WCW because now they had S&P to answer to.

 

[lakersfan45]

It's awesome reading 99 Observers because the in-ring product in the WWF was "awful, just awful" according to Big Dave yet it's still doing monster business. It's like it really bothered him personally. The dude HATED Sable and apparently doesn't like big titties either.

This all sounds like someone else here in the pwd

 

[My Spot]

This all sounds like someone else here in the pwd

I mean, the ratings and profit numbers don't lie.

 

[Casrot]

So what did you guys think of Hoodslam?
Shit was insane right?!?!
INSANE!!!!!!

It was Frank and Struggle's favorite event of the year.

That X-Pac Rules noob liked it too.

 

[GoldenAzazel]

It was Frank and Struggle's favorite event of the year.

Nah, at least one person other than him in this thread liked it so Struggle is gonna shit on it.

 

[Frank23]

 

[Casrot]

@Dusty Rhodes show is some sign of life

He's running hard and heavy.

 

[lakersfan45]

He's running hard and heavy.

I know that man worries me.

 

[Casrot]

@Dusty Rhodes give your mother @lakersfan45 a call. She's worried sick about you, mister.

 

[lakersfan45]

@Dusty Rhodes give your mother @lakersfan45 a call. She's worried sick about you, mister.

Listen I take my job as press Secretary of
State in the pwd veritable seriously. And that includes pmakinf

 

[J Danger]

Pmakinf

 

[The Clinch]

Send Nia packing with Cass.

I say team her with the Usos and Roman in a heel stable. Maybe even Naomi and a cruiserweight too. Have them across all shows and not "play by the rules/brands".

Roman's a lot better than people give him credit for and they need to change it up with him last month.

 

[Frank23]

 

[GoldenAzazel]

I say team her with the Usos and Roman in a heel stable. Maybe even Naomi and a cruiserweight too. Have them across all shows and not "play by the rules/brands".

Roman's a lot better than people give him credit for and they need to change it up with him last month.

That idea makes too much sense for WWE to do it.