Next new japan pro wrestling ppv12/24/2022 ![]() Having been devalued significantly due to its pending cancellation, WWE purchased WCW three weeks later with some change Vince McMahon found in his jacket pocket.Įven if Bischoff had found an alternate network for WCW, Nitro on March 26th would still have been WCW’s last show for a while as no further WCW events – Nitro or otherwise – were scheduled afterwards. Meanwhile, the news that WCW was facing cancellation found its way back to WWE (WWF at the time) who quietly entered negotiations with AOL Time Warner in early March. Thus, Bischoff and Fusient had until this date to secure a new TV deal in order to promote WCW’s new home to viewers. Jamie Kellner decided that WCW had no future on his network beyond March 26th (although an episode of WCW Worldwide was shown in syndication on April 1st). All sounds fair enough, right? Well, turns out the new man in charge at Time Warner had other plans. They wanted to buy WCW, but required AOL Time Warner to maintain a minority interest in the company in order to broadcast WCW shows on TBS and TNT, at least until Fusient could find a new network. From this moment WCW’s days were numbered.Įnter Eric Bischoff with his Fusient Media group. In January 2001 Time Warner merged with AOL. Long story short, WCW was owned by Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) which sat under the larger umbrella of Time Warner. WCW’s ‘Big Bang’ never actually happened, but I wonder what it would have been like if it had?įusient Media – fronted by on/off WCW president Eric Bischoff – boldly announced the purchase of WCW back in January 2001, before a deal was actually finalised. In fact, this alternate future already had a PPV pencilled-in. However, WCW also had another potential future, not under the WWE umbrella. This was never intended to be WCW’s last show WWE’s plan was to re-launch the company in June of that year on TNN – the network on which WWE Raw was broadcast at the time. Monday 26th March 2001, the final episode of WCW Nitro airs on TNT. Friday 23rd March 2001, WWE announces the purchase of WCW from AOL Time Warner.
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