>>8525162>WCW was hemorrhaging money. Because of shitty contracts. The problem was the contracts, which they had to eat anyway. Killing WCW made no sense, especially since they still had to pay the contracts. And they sold the entire video library for a few million dollars. This wasn't about business, AOL/Time Warner just didn't want rasslin.
>Ted Turner was in charge at that point Not really, this was the beginning of a management war that eventually ousted him from the company. TBS merged with Time Warner in 1996 and by 2000 AOL was trying to take them over. WCW was a legacy piece from the 1996 merger. They needed to shore up profitability for the merger which was the ostensibly the reason for killing WCW, but they still had to pay the contracts. It was more about AOL not wanting the stain of wrestling on the new company.
>and I'm not sure how warner figures into anything WWE is doing since all their deals are with FOX/NBC Universal.6 companies control the world's media. Pretty clear these companies are "Never Trumpers"
>By the time all these accusations came out everyone already figured out that AEW isn't a threat.I would disagree. Dynamite basically took NXT out of the picture. And for a while, they were pulling Raw-like ratings. It's really only been since the Vince ouster (this Summer) that Dynamite ratings are in the shitter. So that part does fit.
