History YMMV / TheDeathOfWCW

** When discussing ''WCW Nitro''[='s=] decision to go from three hours to two, 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.

* 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 to 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!

* 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 to 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!

** 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 portraying Watts as [[BothSidesHaveAPoint a firm authoritarian the WCW structure needed who, while mentally stuck two decades in the past and had zero respect for the wrestlers, nonetheless might have saved the place if he hadn't been lobbied out]].

** 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 portraying Watts as [[BothSidesHaveAPoint a firm authoritarian the WCW structure needed who is mentally stuck two decades in the past with zero respect for the wrestlers who nonetheless might have saved the place if he hadn't been lobbied out]].

* DanBrowned: The first edition of the book, published in 2004, included what was then believed as true, which was that Eric Bischoff had invented the Team Challenge Series during his time in the American Wrestling Association. However, on the 2006 ''The Spectacular Legacy of the AWA'' DVD documentary, Bischoff openly laughed he had nothing to do with the TCS and no idea how he got blamed for it. The 2014 10th Anniversary edition of the book edited that section out.

** While ''The Death of WCW'' claims Jamie Kellner cancelled ''Nitro'' 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 — ''Nitro'' and ''Thunder'' were cancelled because 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 ''Nitro'' and ''Thunder'' for good.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: 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 portraying Watts as [[BothSidesHaveAPoint a firm authoritarian the WCW structure needed who is mentally stuck two decades in the past with zero respect for the wrestlers who nonetheless might have saved the place if he hadn't been lobbied out]].