12 Misconceptions About WCW You Probably Believe - They Always Just Copied WWE! What Killed WCW? No Homegrown Stars! Did Vince Russo Book Everything Bad?!
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🗓️ 28 September 2025
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WWE is responsible for a lot of fallacy surrounding 'Where The Big Boys Play(ed)'. Simon Miller presents 12 Misconceptions About WCW You Probably Believe...
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| 1:08.4 | So I loved WCW. I was a WWF kid, but there was just a few years where you had to flip back and forth with the television channel controller thing of a jig because you wanted to know what was going to happen on both. It's very stressful |
| 1:14.5 | and fun. And sure yes, the year 2000 could be some of the worst television you ever see in your life, |
| 1:19.5 | but actually it's so bad, it becomes good again. And given the double CW died over two decades |
| 1:24.6 | ago, if you can believe it, there are a lot of misconceptions. |
| 1:28.8 | Hello, I am Simon Miller, and we're going to talk about some of them today, and figure out what's true and what's a pile of crap. |
| 1:35.3 | Number 12, early WCW was the home of real wrestling. |
| 1:38.3 | So this is nonsense, and it happens anytime any kind of model wrestling does goofy wrestling, which is for life, where people go out, oh my gosh, back in the day, wrestling companies never used to do this. Yes, they did. You can go back all the way to the 70s and you will watch something that is essentially a carnival. Sports entertainment has always been a thing. It was just Vince McMahon coined it and you can even go all the way back to 1988 when Ted Turner essentially said, oh, I'm going |
| 2:01.4 | to take this NWA thing of my jig and turn it into WCW, even though a lot of what they did |
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