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The biggest competition Vince McMahon's WWE ever had, they almost put them out of business.

If you want to believe the madness, and we still talk about it today,

sometimes with love in our eyes, others crying into our food, because it's a mystery, like evolution,

what the hell was going on?

That's more what we're focusing on today.

As World Championship wrestling started to struggle and lost its foothold in the war, they did what

a lot of companies do and panicked. Shock TV sounds like a great idea to try and turn things around, so they did whatever the hell they thought they could get away with.

Turns out, wasn't such a great concept at all.

I'm Simon for what culture, please make sure you subscribe, and since 10 times W.C.W. went too far.

Number 10 the spike heard around the world.

We'll begin with a curveball as this happened way before W.C.W. was on the verge of shutting

down and instead occurred in the late 80s.

The rule of the day then was that you could not put blood on television, something Dusty Rhodes had issues

with, because man, that guy liked to bleed

unlike Jesse Ventura and Predator he had the time

after Ted Turner had bought Jim Crockett promotions and renamed it though

he allowed the American dream to keep on booking the promotion

because he knew the man was a genius.

The only thing he asked was that yes you can't put blood on TV.

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