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🗓️ 11 July 2024
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John Pollock speaks with Lenita Erickson on her short but incredible tenure working at World Championship Wrestling.
Erickson speaks about being hired by Brad Siegel in 2000, being sent to the WCW Power Plant, how she became part of a group aiming to buy the company, seeing the WCW financials, how Siegel viewed professional wrestling, the Fusient deal involving Eric Bischoff, why that deal fell apart, and how Vince McMahon & WWF ultimately bought the company in March 2001.
A fascinating discussion with a major player behind the scenes in the final months of WCW.
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0:00.0 | Recently the fall of World Championship wrestling has been heavily discussed |
0:04.1 | following the four-part series who killed W.C.W. that just aired on Vice TV and |
0:08.1 | today we're speaking with someone who was right in the middle of the storm during |
0:12.0 | the final months of |
0:13.2 | W. C. W. and someone that personally I have wanted to |
0:16.0 | chat with about W.C. W. W. for a while. She is Lenita |
0:19.3 | Ericsson who is joining us and Lenita. Thank you so much for taking some time. I know this is a very, |
0:25.1 | even after all these decades, people still have such a curiosity about W.C. W. and its demise. |
0:31.2 | You know, well, thank you for your interest and I, myself, you know, I think you were surprised |
0:37.1 | to find out that they had flown me out to do a whole episode of that series, but for reasons that I might guess it got chopped and you know when I |
0:48.7 | watch it and I'm very I became very good friends with the producers, like one of the main producers at Vice. |
0:57.5 | You know, I said, how do you tell the true story when you leave such a gaping hole and you jump from fusion to what happened you know and so yeah it's I you know I |
1:10.5 | just sort of chuckled about it I thought well know, I know Guy Evans did the book and and |
1:16.8 | But you know, I'll say whatever you want to just ask questions. I'll fire off |
1:21.7 | Yeah, there's a lot to cover here but yeah as you had |
1:26.0 | mentioned you were in fact interviewed for this series we had had one of the |
1:31.4 | directors on Evan Husney and while I wasn't aware that they had |
1:35.4 | interviewed you he had stated he wishes they had two more episodes to properly |
1:40.3 | tackle the series so I don't know from their perspective how that decision was made, but I can say personally |
1:46.7 | and with other people, you were certainly a figure that I know people wanted to hear from and |
1:50.4 | was the impetus for me reaching out to you? |
1:53.0 | Well, you know, thank you and I think so. |
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