>>16066215Territory Wrestling only survived as long as it did because so many guys were fucking losers who only wanted steroids, hard drugs and a hotel room for the night. They didn't care about starting families, buying a house, health insurance, retirement savings, none of it. So promoters could short the bottom 70% of the card and only pay the top guys well. Not a winning formula. We only tend to remember the big 8-10 companies that stayed in business and not the dozens of others who got flushed down the toilet, untainted by a McMahon.
If it wasn't Vince who consolidated, it would have been a money mark who spent big to poach talents and somehow lucked into a nationwide TV deal. Vince was able to smash the NWA to pieces without a 9 figure cash account, which is why smarks will forever hate him. Fuck them, they can eat shit.
