Line #3 YMMV/TheDeathOfWCW


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2	* AlternateCharacterInterpretation:
3	** Compare the book's take on Bill Watts's run as WCW booker to ''Literature/RingOfHell''[='s=] take. The former portrays him as [[TheNeidermeyer a diminutive loudmouth]], mentally stuck two decades in the past and who had zero respect for the wrestlers. The latter portrays him as the kind of [[DrillSergeantNasty firm authoritarian]] the spoiled idiots at WCW needed and who would likely have saved the place if he hadn't been lobbied out. In one of Wrestling/MickFoley's books, he takes the Talmudic route of saying BothSidesHaveAPoint and arguing that Watts's decent booking sense was held back by his outdated work ethic.
4	** While ''The Death of WCW'' claims Jamie Kellner cancelled ''Nitro'' and ''Thunder'' because he found wrestling too lowbrow for Turner networks, Guy Evans's book ''NITRO: The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapse of Ted Turner's WCW'' paints a different story — not only was Kellner hesitant to keep them on after WCW's $60 million loss in 2000, Fusient Media Ventures wanted unreasonable amounts of control over ''Nitro''[='=]s timeslot when negotiating to buy WCW, which caused Kellner to wash his hands of WCW programming for good.
5	* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Lord knows where RD got that image of a pouting Eric Bischoff for the book's cover, but it is hilarious.
6	* HilariousInHindsight:
7	** When discussing ''WCW Nitro''[='s=] decision to go from two hours to three, the authors insisted in 2004 that "three hours is just too damn long to run a wrestling show, both for the writers and the fans." Fast forward to the present where ''Wrestling/WWERaw'' is three hours (and is often criticised as being "too damn long"). This was promptly highlighted in the tenth anniversary edition.
8	** In the 2014 publication's epilogue, a bulleted list of all of Wrestling/{{TNA}}'s screw-ups over the last ten years since the book's original printing, it was noted that Vince Russo had left TNA in 2012 but was rumored to have been (secretly) rehired in a consulting capacity in 2014. This was eventually confirmed ''later that same year'' when Russo accidentally sent an email to [=PWInsider=] detailing instructions for Taz and Tenay's commentary voice-overs. It also apparently screwed up their negotiations with [=SpikeTV=] for a renewed television deal, as apparently, like Wrestle-1, they ''hated'' him and pointedly instructed to Dixie Carter ''not'' to rehire him. She rehired him anyway, and told no one, not even ''the talent themselves''.
9	* TheWoobie: Wrestling/BretHart. Aside from the obvious (the Wrestling/MontrealScrewjob, his lack of push in WCW), you really feel bad for him when you read about all the crazy stunts he was told to do. It becomes chilling when suggested that it was the same type of stunts that led to his brother's death. In a HarsherInHindsight moment, Vince [=McMahon=], while being the one who told Bret to go to WCW because he claimed that WWF couldn't fulfill their 20-year contract with Bret, said that if he leaves for WCW, "they're not going to know what to do with you." And sure enough, they didn't. It was almost three to five years on the roster before he got to wrestle again before fans remembered that he was there!

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