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if Ted Turner had never purchased WCW?

2007-12-12 10:21:14 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports Wrestling

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WCW would have no TV outlets if Turner didn't have TBS or TNT.

2007-12-12 10:26:47 · answer #1 · answered by Cena's hiptoss 5 · 2 0

We'd still be watching the WWE's big-names squashing jobbers on TV every week. The big-names would only face each other at PPVs. The "Attitude Era" would never have happened. Turner's money enabled WCW to compete with the WWF. The WWF responded by providing MUCH better matches on TV to keep their viewers and to better hype the PPVs, and by creating more "realistic" characters and more "mature" storylines instead of the cartoon heroes and villains and comic book stories of the 80's. Without Turner's money and Bischoff's...balls, WCW would've stayed a fairly small regional territory. The WWF would not have been forced to evolve beyond the decades-old "stars squash jobbers on TV and only wrestle each other at big arena events (non -televised)".

2007-12-12 19:38:41 · answer #2 · answered by The Dragon 7 · 1 0

Wrestling would not even be close to "mainstream" today, and the WWF/E would've been taken off USA a long time ago.

WCW, as well as ECW, is one of the reasons the WWE still is on television today. The WWE was heavily influenced by ECW's storylines and "attitude" and WCW' s competitiveness with their ratings during the Monday Night Wars. Because of those two organizations, the WWE was forced to reshape their act and appearance, as well as become more controversial

2007-12-12 19:49:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

That is an excellent question and one I have often wondered about myself. The WWE wouldn't have done as well as it did in the late 90's because without the Monday night wars, the WWE wouldn't have stepped up their game then. That was when, in my opinion WWE was at its best. So I guess we would still be watching territorial wrestling, in addition to the same old, same old that the WWE refuses to give up on.

But note that I also think that Jim Crockett Promotions had a good thing going before they decided to sell. Those are the days of wrestling that I really truly miss.

2007-12-12 18:37:26 · answer #4 · answered by borntobefree 4 · 3 0

WWE would still probably have all the same story lines and most of the wrestlers as they did in the 80's and early 90's. WWF would have had most of their wrestlers because WCW took a lot of WWF's talents

Great question starred.

2007-12-12 19:52:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

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